January 2018 – Page 3 – Urban Rene:ssance

Month: January 2018

January 22, 2018January 26, 2018

Spit It Out!

Another way of getting the pollution out of your system……

January 22, 2018December 17, 2019

Love this tune!

Welcome to today’s cocktail hour to wash down all those polluted particles you inhaled today. Smog hit the top of our own health-risk scale!

January 22, 2018December 17, 2019

Recipe and Image by La Cucina Italiana Ingredients: Fine sea salt 1 1/4 pounds broccoli 1 pound strascinati or other short pasta, such as cavatelli or penne 1/2 cup extra-virgin olive oil 1/2 cup finely chopped flat-leaf parsley 2 dried red arbol chiles, or red pepper flakes to taste 1 garlic clove, minced Freshly grated […]

January 22, 2018January 26, 2018

Kowloon City Hands

Kowloon City is a great area for photographer who are looking to capture the true spirit of the ol’ Hong Kong life… even now, as modernization takes hold, evidence of the early days of the Walled City is still evident…..

January 21, 2018December 17, 2019

Music to keep you sane……

I always loved the music of Miles Davis, but this is clearly my favorite tune… from one of the greatest Jazz albums ever made (Kind of Blue, 1959)

Hong Kong Vibes

Life in Hong Kong is known to be fast, crowded, hectic, loud… sometimes rude, even confusing…often stifling hot and uncomfortably humid. Yet living in this exciting and energising cauldron of activities is addictive and exhilarating… at least for most of us… The daily hustle across busy streets among imposing skyscrapers, elbowing your way through local and tourist bodies alike towards your next destination may be challenging and exhausting to the casual observer or hapless visitor, but it’s part of what makes this city unique for those who have embraced its ways and charms. Because they know that exposure to these daily urban disagreeablenesses (…jeeez…) and pressures are just fleeting, short-lived inconveniences.
Usually one finds themselves just few steps away from grabbing a cab, entering an apartment or chilling out at a cha chaan teng, club house, restaurant, luxury retailer, hotel lobby lounge or a favorite bar or simply escaping this proverbial beehive madness by putting on shades and earphones, connected to one of those devilish mobile devices playing excruciatingly loud canto pop while wriggling their way forward through the crowds. Unsurprisingly that this is the prevailing vision of this city that most casual observers can easily get comfortable with. Yet there are less obvious aspects of Hong Kong that may surprise some of the holiday visitors, traveling businessmen and newcomers… or anyone that has neither taken the time or shown the interest to get to know this place… Hong Kong is a metropolis full of truly kind, caring and superbly creative people… a city full of fantastic food outlets and restaurants and passionate, talented private chefs… a haven for hikers and wanderers to remote villages and outlying islands… full of travel fanatics and explorers, great photographers and galleries… a hotbed of arts and brilliant musical talents… and a city whose inhabitants are extremely inquisitive and curious and enjoy socializing like no other….

At urban rene:ssance we are living the CurioCity dream and will do whatever it takes to captures its culinary, musical and cultural vibes through our sparsely worded posts. We do hope you enjoy them and look forward to your comments and ideas!

Thanks for being here…

Month: January 2018

Spit It Out!

Love this tune!

Strascinati with Broccoli

Kowloon City Hands

Music to keep you sane……