For more than 50 years, Cheung Heung has been the go-to spot in Kennedy Town for cheap eats and is known for its handmade Chinese pastries and milk tea.
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Old Places in Kennedy Town: Tung Hing Food Company 東興食品公司
For more than half a century, Tung Hing has been churning out fishballs from the same spot in Kennedy Town.
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Old Places in Kennedy Town: Sun Hing Restaurant 新興食家
The place in Kennedy Town to go to for hearty, no-frills dim sum
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Old Places in Kennedy Town
A dim sum restaurant, a cha chaan teng (Hong Kong-style cafe), and a fishball shop. These three family businesses have been operating in Kennedy Town for several decades. Faced with challenges such as increasing operating costs, competition, and changing customers’ preferences, will they continue past the current generation?
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Storytelling: Myanmar puppetry, Yangon
Making a slideshow about one man and his family’s story on preserving Myanmar’s puppetry tradition.
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Riding the slow train around Yangon
The Yangon Circle Line is a slow ride, taking three hours to complete the loop as it passes through the city’s outlying areas. It is, however, a good way to see the rest of Myanmar’s former capital.
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Pulling strings to keep alive Myanmar’s puppetry tradition
In Yangon, one artist and his family are helping to save the country’s marionette heritage through education and staging puppet shows in their living room.
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Longer, slower and better
Some people prefer to scan through their Instagram feed. I prefer to take my time to absorb the stories behind the frozen moments, the essays that give context to the images and the thoughtful recollections.
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Magnum Photos Workshop @ Heidelberg, Germany
Work has been hectic lately and I’ve not had much time to blog. As I’ll be travelling in the next three weeks – first to London for work, then back to Singapore (my last visit home was 18 months ago!) with a short trip to Bali – I wanted to jot down my thoughts and…
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