Episode 9 of my humor column Sharp Pains aired on RTHK Radio 3 May 25 @ 2.50pm HKT! This one’s a filthy one and called Tea Bag…
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Tea Bag – Sharp Pains
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Scrub – Sharp Pains
Last month’s humour column broadcasted on RTHK Radio 3 April 27! Apologies for the delay in getting it up! This one’s a painful one and called Scrub…
Sharp Pains will be back on RTHK Radio 3 TOMORROW @ 2.50pm HKT with filthy new episode Tea Bag. Look out for Scrub as an upcoming column in the SCMP‘s Post Mag!
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Penguins – Sharp Pains
I flap about in my latest humour column for RTHK Radio 3, which aired March 30 @2.50pm HKT on the 123 Show! This one’s cute, fluffy, walks funny, and is called Penguins…
Sharp Pains is now a regular(ish) humour column in the SCMP‘s Post Magazine!
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The Horror & Humor of Hubby’s Huge Ugly Feet!
I put my foot in it AGAIN – this time in my humour column for the South China Morning Post, published in the Short Reads section of Post Magazine last week! The column is now a regular goofy companion piece for my RTHK Radio 3 humour column Sharp Pains, which broadcasts the last Tuesday of the month. This one aired on the radio as Foot In It…
The End of The Rat – Sharp Pains
My Lunar New Year Sharp Pains humour column broadcasted on RTHK Radio 3‘s 123 Show Feb 23 @2.50 HKT! Based on a revolting true story, this one’s called The End of The Rat…
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The End of The Rat on RTHK Radio 3
Charity Begins at Home Kong Kitchen!
WOW! It’s been 10 MONTHS since Home Kong Kitchen got on a roll and started making serious dough! We’ve spent nearly a year turning our kitchens into mini-Hiroshimas and baking a difference to feed Hong Kong’s homeless! 🇭🇰
Our initiative started as a response to news reports that food waste charities were struggling to feed the homeless during the 3rd Wave of the pandemic. So what started out as the Baker’s Dirty Half Dozen began to bake our own and donate it to Breadline in weekly food drives.
As more and more bighearted Homekongers have rallied to our cause, Home Kong Kitchen has risen. We now bake, collect and deliver homemade breads, bagels and muffins directly to people living on the streets, in unlicensed shelters and refuges most days!
This Easter, Home Kong Kitchen‘s bionic baking community delivered dozens of afternoon teas to homeless shelters and refuges across Hong Kong! Props to Alana Ho for baking the scones, Chriz Lim for the lemon cakes, Raquel Ate for the giant banana cake and our original Baker’s Dirty Half Dozen for the hot cross buns! Not forgetting our amazing community of artists @ Mental Ideas for their handcrafted notes and inspiring artwork!
Besides our regular weekly deliveries to unlicensed shelters and homeless charity ImpactHK, Home Kong Kitchen is now delivering free breakfasts to anybody who needs it anywhere in Hong Kong! If you and your family are struggling to put food on the table, or if you’re from a refuge or shelter that has not yet sampled our baking and would like to, please take a moment to register!
We have lots of events lined up over the summer, including baking workshops in collaboration with Breadline @ Refugee Union, a monthly Picnic Project, a novelty cookbook and our first Bijou Pâtisserie, where you can order our baking! We can’t promise it will be the best you’ve ever tasted, but we CAN promise that every cent we make is donated directly to homeless charities!
To volunteer for HKK as a home baker, bread donator or artist, or to try our baking, email hello@homekongkitchen.com.
Thank you for your incredible kindness and support! 💜 💜 💜
Bipolar My Way – SCMP
Thanks to South China Morning Post journo Anthea Rowan for featuring me in her article exploring the stormy creative highs and lows of bipolar disorder in Monday’s SCMP!
Thanks also to SCMP photographer Antony Dickson for an hilarious impromptu photoshoot on my roof, where for no particular reason (other than the weather was nice) we decided to recreate classic scenes from two of my favorite movies with my new poo Mojo Hobo Kaye!
Foot In It – Sharp Pains
I put my foot in it LIVE on RTHK Radio 3‘s fantabulous 123 Show in my first Sharp Pain of 2021! My latest humour column broadcasted Jan 26 @2.30pm HKT! Sharp Pains will be back in the Year of The Ox! Here’s hoping it will be a lot more lucky and a lot less plaguey than its Ratty predecessor! Kung hei fat choi!
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Flex & The City – Sharp Pains
I normally pride myself on my ability to give at least a minute’s notice before a radio broadcast. But this one aired TEN WEEKS AGO, which is a dismal new record. This one’s an exhausting one and called Flex & the City…
More pandemic black humour from the Hong Kong Government this week when we were advised to open all the windows (COVID-dispersing ventilation) and not to go outside (air pollution). But it’s not all doom and fumes! This means two new episodes of Sharp Pains have already aired!
Flex & The City aired on RTHK Radio 3 Nov 24 @ 2.50 HKT!
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Flex & The City on RTHK Radio 3
Home Kong Kitchen in the SCMP!
You may have caught me looking slightly guilty a few weeks ago in the SCMP‘s Post Magazine chatting to the hilarious Kylie Knott about my tasty little Home Kong Kitchen initiative: Baking A Difference (geddit?) for Hong Kong’s homeless! Thanks so much to the SCMP for this nice little plug of HKK and Mental Ideas, which is currently broadcasting on RTHK.
BLOWN AWAY by the response to this article, solidarity and generosity of Hongkongers mobilizing support to help the most vulnerable! This project has never failed to rejuvenate my spirits and restore my faith in humanity, bringing me together with so many inspiring individuals and organizations that epitomize the spirit of Hong Kong!
HUGE thanks to bighearted artist Juliana Kung for designing Home Kong Kitchen‘s emblem! It has everything I love: character, beauty and flying bagels! (Actually, I think they’re meant to be orbs, but I saw bagels. I see bagels everywhere now. They’re plastered on every billboard, graffitied on every work of art. Mona Lisa’s smile? Bagels. Munch’s Scream? Bagels. Birth of Venus? Bagels. Map of the MTR? Bagels. The New Fragrance by Christian Dior? Bagels. Leonardo’s Last Supper? What else?? Bagels.)
I’ve discovered every homemade bagel weighs the same as a brick and that lugging vast quantities of bricks bagels around has really paid off in terms of honing my hump! (Sadly not the lovely lady lumps kind; more the Quasimodo kind…) If you’re interested in volunteering for Home Kong Kitchen, please fill in the form below!
PSST – If you’re unsure how to pronounce my name correctly, this is it!! 💜💜💜