Films that are made in Hong Kong, Beijing, Seoul, Tokyo and Bangkok tend to feed off each other and multiply the potential of Asian cinema.

Take Tokyo: their prices are three times Shanghai. Look at Hong Kong: their prices in the market are twice Shanghai's prices. So there is still tremendous growth potential in this market as it moves to what it will ultimately become, which is the New York of Asia.

We may need a Hong Kong II,

Some major U.S. carriers are offering three- and four-night packages in cities like Bangkok, Hong Kong, and Beijing -- round-trip airfare, four nights in a hotel for around $700 dollars. You can't beat that.

In Hong Kong, 'wonton' means swallowing a cloud.

His colleagues at the Bar called him Filth, but not out of irony. It was because he was considered to be the source of the old joke, Failed In London Try Hong Kong. It was said that he had fled the London Bar, very young, very poor, on a sudden whim just after the War, and had done magnificently well in Hong Kong from the start. Being a modest man, they said, he had called himself a parvenu, a fraud, a carefree spirit.
Filth in fact was no great maker of jokes, was not at all modest about his work and seldom, except in great extremity, went in for whims. He was loved, however, admired, laughed at kindly and still much discussed many years after retirement.