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This week: Clearwater Bay, junk boat parties, lion dance, and regional Chinese cuisines

Four more pages, including one of Hong Kong's most distinctly local weekend activities.

What's new

  • Places — Clearwater Bay, a quiet peninsula with clean beaches and a long film-industry history. 23 districts now covered.
  • Do — junk boat parties, chartering a boat with friends for a day on the water — genuinely one of the most Hong Kong ways to spend a weekend.
  • Culture — lion dance and dragon dance, what each means and how to tell them apart.
  • Food — Hakka, Chiu Chow, Shanghainese and other regional Chinese cuisines with deep, long-established roots in the city.

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