HK-based Taiwanese artist JIEJIEHK has created a series of comics depicting the differences between HK and Taiwan. Below are some highlights translated by Kevin Tang. See also: East vs. West.
To view all content and entries posted on the blog, click here. Some other highlights include…
- A Brief History of HK’s Racist Toothpaste.
- An American Warship in Hong Kong.
- Behold: Epic Hong Kong Piano Boy.
- Best of ‘Hong Kong Memes’.
- Burgernomics & Hong Kong’s Love Affair with McDonald’s.
- Celebrity ‘Tiger Tutors’ Documentary.
- Chinese New Year in HK by Interactive Google Street View.
- East vs West Cultural Differences.
- Euphoric English Advert for HK’s Noah’s Ark.
- Fake Monks Targeting Westerners on the Rise.
- Free ‘Kick Me In The Balls’.
- Future Maps of the MTR.
- Gweilo Moments Song by RTHK’s Steve James.
- HK Goes Completely Insane For Big Yellow Duck’s Arrival.
- HK’s Most Quaint & Delightful Public Service Ads from the 80s.
- Hollywood Destroys the Bank of China Building.
- Hong Kong 2013 vs. Fritz Lang’s 1927 Masterpiece ‘Metropolis’.
- Hong Kong in Miniature.
- Hong Kong Makes Tacocopter Internet Meme a Reality.
- Hong Kong SantaCon 2012.
- Hong Kong’s Feral Monkey Problem.
- Hong Kong’s Skyscrapers in Height Order.
- Hong Kong’s Weirdest Public Service Ads.
- How to See Fireflies in Hong Kong.
- How to Tell the Time from the HK Skyline.
- How to Use Social Networking in HK.
- Illegal Monkey Mountain Feeding Continues (Photos).
- International No Pants Subway Day: Hong Kong.
- Keeping it Classy on the Hong Kong MTR.
- Kill It With Fire: HK’s Top 5 Most Dreadful Creepy Crawlies.
- King Kong in Hong Kong.
- Literary Death Match Storytelling Smackdown.
- Louis Vuitton’s Pretentious Corporate Claptrap.
- Mainland Tourists Clear HK Banks & Jewellers of Bling.
- Map of Hong Kong Island’s New Hos.
- No Sex Please, We’re Hong Kongers.
- Paul Mooney’s SCMP Whistle-blower Article.
- Photographer Michael Wolf May Be Legal Trouble Over ‘Window Watching’.
- Photos & Footage from the 1st Hong Kong Soapbox Race.
- Pro-Beijing DAB Party Campaigning Against Club Triple X.
- Profit, Protection & Public Interest: Why is SCMP ‘Drip-feeding’ Snowden Revelations?
- Rave in a Cave.
- Sexpo 2013: Photos from HK’s First ‘Asia Adult Expo’ [NSFW].
- Salaries of Those Who Serve Us.
- Shark Spotted in Sai Kung.
- South China Morning Post Buys Out HK Magazine.
- Shots from HK’s Summer 2013.
- Tasteless Campaign from HK’s Society for Abandoned Animals.
- Teacup Storm Over HK Magazine Crap Rape Joke.
- The Ancient Super Volcano Beneath Victoria Harbour.
- The English Meaning of MTR Station Names.
- The McQueue of Shame?
- The Official Hong Kong Hiking Drinking Game.
- The People’s Map of Hong Kong.
- The Portland Street ‘Ethnic Hierarchy’.
- The Sum of All Evil: Shock Value or Art?
- The Weird World of HK Milk Advertising.
- The Weird, Possibly Racist World of HK Speed Dating – A Personal Account.
- Tour of the Famous Greenpeace Ship, Rainbow Warrior III.
- Tsim Sha Tsui in LEGO.
- Weird Propaganda Sign on Hong Kong Soil.
- Why Does Jackie Chan Hate Hong Kong?
Well yes, and no.
I don’t know why this myth persists that people walk quickly in Hong Kong. It simply isn’t true – people walk FAR more slowly and aimlessly on the street in HK than in any other city I’ve lived in (which includes Taipei, London, Moscow, Brussels, Stockholm, Essen, Cambridge). HK is a nightmare if you’re trying to walk quickly through the streets.
And traffic really doesn’t get out of the way well for ambulances in Hong Kong either. Certainly not in the way that everyone does in the UK, for example.
Well yes, and no.
I don’t know why this myth persists that people walk quickly in Hong Kong. It simply isn’t true – people walk FAR more slowly and aimlessly on the street in HK than in any other city I’ve lived in (which includes Taipei, London, Moscow, Brussels, Stockholm, Essen, Cambridge). HK is a nightmare if you’re trying to walk quickly through the streets.
And traffic really doesn’t get out of the way well for ambulances in Hong Kong either. Certainly not in the way that everyone does in the UK, for example.
Well yes, and no.
I don’t know why this myth persists that people walk quickly in Hong Kong. It simply isn’t true – people walk FAR more slowly and aimlessly on the street in HK than in any other city I’ve lived in (which includes Taipei, London, Moscow, Brussels, Stockholm, Essen, Cambridge). HK is a nightmare if you’re trying to walk quickly through the streets.
And traffic really doesn’t get out of the way well for ambulances in Hong Kong either. Certainly not in the way that everyone does in the UK, for example.
So this is why my mother didn’t want me to marry a Hong Konger…
So this is why my mother didn’t want me to marry a Hong Konger…
The stereotype comes from the daily rush trying to catch the MRT. It’s no myth.
The stereotype comes from the daily rush trying to catch the MRT. It’s no myth.
I think HK has a split personality when it comes to walking. On the sidewalk, pedestrian traffic seems to advance at a glacial pace; never mind the wandering, the lack of situational awareness, the sudden stops to check Facebook status. All in all, much simpler to walk on the street in crowded areas.
In the MTR, however, people walk much faster.
I think HK has a split personality when it comes to walking. On the sidewalk, pedestrian traffic seems to advance at a glacial pace; never mind the wandering, the lack of situational awareness, the sudden stops to check Facebook status. All in all, much simpler to walk on the street in crowded areas.
In the MTR, however, people walk much faster.