DK Travel : Hong Kong : History & Culture

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Jewish

Hong Kong has one of the oldest Jewish communities in east Asia, producing patrician business dynasties (the Sassoons, the Kadoories) and one of the most colourful colonial governors (Sir Matthew Nathan, 1903–1906).
Jorge Alvares

In 1513 the Portuguese navigator Alvares becomes the first European to visit Hong Kong.
Kam Tin

The name means “brocade field”, although these days any crops are more likely to be decorated with rusty cars. Traditional walled villages at Kat Hing Wai and Shui Tau.
Legco Building

The elegant Neo-Classical Legislative building, completed in 1911, originally served as Hong Kong’s Supreme Court and now functions as Hong Kong’s would-be parliament.
Lin Zexu

Commissioner Lin Zexu is appointed by China in 1839, with the task of ending the trade in imported opium.
Mission Etrangeres

The handsome former French Mission building (built 1917) is Hong Kong’s Court of Final Appeal, though that’s not an apt name given that the court has referred some legal wrangles to Beijing.
Mo Lei Tau

The impenetrable slang used by young Cantonese. Based on surreal and seemingly nonsensical phrasing.
Old Letter Box

A few traditional green, cast-iron post boxes bearing the British Royal Cipher remain. There is one at the northern end of Statue Square.
Overseas Chinese

The surging growth in British-, American- and Canadian-born Chinese (nicknamed BBCs, ABCs and CBCs respectively) has been a characteristic of the last two decades, as the well-educated children of emigrants return in search of roots and white-collar work.
Ping Kong

Off the beaten track, and therefore its walled village is less busy than others.