a href=”http://www.amazinggracehk.com/asian-doll.html”>The Amazing Grace collection of Asian dolls
Back in 1983, our Chinese doll maker Lee Ming Yang, also known as Michael Lee, then 74 years old and unmarried, would tell us he had children all over the world. A small group of ladies worked with Mr. Lee cutting and sewing the doll clothes, stuffing them [...]
e bought tickets well in advance, did lots of research and planning and headed for Expo 2010 Shanghai in mid-May prepared for the worst after reading about the long waits to get into the Expo grounds and the three-hour lines under the sun to see the more popular pavilions. Without a magic wand or V.I.P. [...]
€śThis is not wood; this is art.” So an artisan in Mas, a wood-carving district in Bali, described his carvings on one of our recent buying trips. The distinction is increasingly lost as commercial pressures lead to standardized and speeded-up production and traditional skills are lost as fast-growing economies in Asia attract artisans with [...]
hinese dragons have a way of ending up in the most surprising places — fountain pens, neck ties, watches, hat and caps, scarves and even hair sticks. Panda bears and elephants have their own fans as well, of course, and Amazing Grace tries to keep everybody happy. But in the race to accessorize, dragons [...]
fter nearly 40 years sourcing silver, crystal, jade and other gemstone jewelry in China, Thailand, India and Indonesia, I believe there are motherboards in my brain wired with silver that pick up signals from jewelry display shelves informing me that there’s stuff I need to look at. The product seems to find us. True, [...]
a href=”http://”>Its Sunday morning at Villa Vista on Victoria Peak in Hong Kong where I have lived for nearly 40 years. After several days of downpours to drizzles, the rains have briefly paused. With a sweeping gesture from Beijing to Bali including India, the TV weather lady turns the magical map behind her [...]
Of the millions yearly who visit Hong Kong’s most popular attraction, Victoria Peak, only a small fraction take the hour or so to experience one of the City’s least expensive (meaning free) and biggest delights, the walk that circles the Peak. As a resident on that road for nearly 40 years, allow me, if you [...]
ost people I know would find it hard to say something exciting, even interesting about chopsticks. They might think that chopsticks would easily lose out in a beauty contest with curvy, well-wrought spoons or forks. Yet in the international rankings of eating utensils held annually at American Fork City, Utah, chopsticks always seem to come [...]
November 4, 2009 – 9:53 am
Although I have never sailed on an ocean liner, I figure I’ve made the equivalent of several trans-Pacific voyages in the 40 years I’ve lived here just crossing Hong Kong’s Victoria Harbor on the Star Ferry’s main route connecting Hong Kong’s central business district with Kowloon.
