Word: yau
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...Bowie Yau Sze-lai, sales associate Hong Kong city life is pretty diverse, so your night should be too. I'd start out in Kowloon with a glass of wine at Felix, tel: (852) 2315 3188. It's a beautiful bar that overlooks the harbor from the 28th floor of Hong Kong's oldest hotel, the Peninsula. After drinks, head to Hong Kong island and the colorful shopping district of Causeway Bay. This place is very busy most evenings, mostly with a younger crowd looking for the latest fashions and accessories. Try the Island Beverly Centre or Lee Theatre Plaza...
...MISS: Sakenohana Restaurateur Alan Yau's highly anticipated Japanese eatery, with traditional cypress and slate interiors by acclaimed architect Kengo Kuma, opens in mid-September in St. James, London...
...people in Hong Kong have any idea of the wastage that Yau's death represented. "I never thought that, 10 years later, I would be sitting here talking to someone about Yau Leung," says Ng from behind a box of his unpublished prints. But surely the time has come...
...Yau released a small selection of photographs in 1992, in the now unobtainable Lo Fung Stories ("Lo Fung" is the archaic literary name for Hong Kong). It was a masterpiece of editing, and a stunning publishing debut: here was a major photographic talent, arriving on the bookshelf or coffee table in a fully formed state and with images that practically hummed with love for the city and its proletariat. "I was born here, I have always lived here and all my work is here," Yau said in the foreword. In his sense of place, he was to Hong Kong what...
...English title, Growing Up in Hong Kong, that doesn't capture the playful poetry of the original). In 1997, he published what was to be his last collection, A Hundred Changes (again, poorly translated from Chinese as City Vibrance). It was a then-and-now volume in which Yau revisited locations he had documented decades earlier in order to record the invariably startling transformations that had taken place in the interim. These books did not sell in large numbers - they simply generated a small flurry of interest in Yau's work that did not, as one would have hoped, grow...