A Personal History of Hong Kong as 39 Everyday Objects
Antony Huen
food culture (一)
tea-coloured plastic cup / menu holder with the print of a beer brand / cha chaan teng’s order pad with a waiter’s scribbles / Vitasoy glass bottle / turtle jelly china bowl / two toothpicks in a sachet / clay pot for clay-pot rice / bamboo steamer / tea-coloured lazy Susan / U-shaped barbecue fork
identity (二)
bamboo scaffolding / bamboo birdcage / bamboo broom / blue plastic flip-flops / rolling suitcase / red-white-blue bag / the pedestrian crossing control box from before 1997 / orange rubbish bin / blue ribbon / street railing / yellow ribbon / surgical mask
childhood (三)
long wood ruler / chicken feather duster / Chung-hwa pencil / aeroplane chess / mah-jong / day calendar made of very thin paper
superstition (五)
Tung-shing / Chinese fortune sticks / joss sticks / maneki-neko / Fai-chun
currency (六)
red envelope / Octopus card / green ten-dollar note / coin with a bauhinia blossom / coin with the Queen’s head
symbol (七)
Miss Hong Kong’s tiara
