Something I do over here, every few days, is call up the 10-day weather report for Hong Kong from the Web site weather.com Just for laughs. Since we arrived, the weather has not changed. To wit: highs of 86 or 87, but it feels hotter because the humidity is going to be about 70 percent. […]

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As I suspected, there would be a Vietnamese connection, if this search were to be completed. And there was. Maybe a 10-minute walk from this room in Tin Hau is a tiny place, hardly more than a food stall, called “Aborigine Vietnamese Baguette House.” And they have some quite nice baguettes there. Now, they aren’t […]

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