Ho Ho Hong Kong
Everything you need to know about Hong Kong. Each Monday local comedian Vivek Mahbubani and Egyptian comic Mohammed Magdi dive into something great about the city.
- Update frequency
- every 6 days
- Average duration
- 53 minutes
- Episodes
- 233
- Years Active
- 2023 - 2025
#53 - Vaccine hesitancy in HK, with infectious disease expert Professor Ben Cowling
Professor Cowling is the Division Head of Epidemiology at HKU and a co-director of the WHO Collaborating Centre for Infections Disease Epidemiology and Control. And we're super excited to have him ba…
#52 - Empowering women in HK to play more sport, with In The Changing Room podcast host Cissy Radford
Cissy Radford runs a sensational podcast called In The Changing Room, all about women in sport.
She also works with WISE HK (Women In Sport Empowered HK) and is a passionate advocate for getting peop…
#51 - Colonial British police in Hong Kong, with former officer Guy Shirra
Guy Shirra moved to Hong Kong from England and served as an officer for the Royal Hong Kong Police force from 1967 until the Handover in 1997.
His stories are surreal and there were far too many for …
#50 - Volunteering with the famous, with Time Auction founder Fion Leung
Fion Leung is the founder of Time Auction, a tech-enabled charity connecting volunteers with their idols.
The group enlists famous and important voices in the region, who give up their time to reward…
#49 - The debacles and victories of HK‘s vaccine situation
The vaccine rollout in Hong Kong has been both sensational and a total circus. There's been ineffective vaccines, halts on BioNTech, people getting the wrong vaccine, vaccinated people getting sick, …
#48 - The man in HK revolutionising how we make coffee, with John Buckman
John Buckman's a London-born, French-raised, kind-of American who cut his teeth founding companies in Silicon Valley that aimed to make the world fair.
His most recent project is Decent Espresso, aim…
#47 - The story of why Mohammed fled to China
This is the original interview Andy did with Mohammed Magdi in Shanghai 2015. Mo's story of leaving the political strife in Egypt to live in northern China is genuinely insane.
#46 - The most famous gweilo of all time, with 河國榮 Gregory Charles Rivers
河國榮 Gregory Charles Rivers has a face every Hong Konger knows well. Over his prolific 30-year acting career he's been THE white guy, appearing in more than 200 soap operas.
He's been in big films and…
#45 - The King of Green, with OmniPork, Green Common and Green Mondays founder David Yeung
David Yeung is the founder of OmniPork, Green Common and Green Mondays. And won the Social Entrepreneur of the Year award at the World Economic Forum.
He was recognised in Fortune's 2020 'Change The …
#44 - We have shows again (maybe)!! With Mohammed, Vivek and Andy altogether
We finally try to solve the mystery, are Mohammed and Vivek different people??
Shows are back on in HK, or actually we're not even sure anymore. We've had two weeks of shows and with cases popping up…
#43 - A powerhouse in HK radio, with RTHK Radio 3‘s Alyson Hau
Alyson Hau has dominated the airwaves since joining Metro Radio as a 16 year old.
Since then she's covered the Olympics, the World Expo, world premieres for major films including Transformers and Twi…
#42 - The dealmaker who secured Disneyland Hong Kong, with Mike ‘Mickey‘ Rowse
Mike Rowse carries a formidable expat CV.
He negotiated the deal that brought Disneyland to Hong Kong, acting on behalf of the government. And was the first expat in HK's history to naturalise as a …
#41 - Hong Kong‘s street sleepers, with Impact HK founder Jeff Rotmeyer
You don't have to walk far in the city to find street sleepers. Or walk past a McDonald's late at night to see the city's McRefugees.
Jeff Rotmeyer founded Impact HK which has grown into a force of n…
#40 - Chinese New Year special, with Tim Chan
Happy new year everybody! Cantonese comedian Tim Chan joins us to ring in the bull year and the three of us talk about how we each celebrate the holiday differently.
#39 - What‘s going on in HK‘s schools? Politics and pandemics, with Chris Musni
It's been a tough year for schools, with prolonged lockdowns, homeschooling and the threat of 'sanitised' curricula.
We sat down with a teacher on the inside to find out what's up.
#38 - The current covid situation in HK, with infectious disease expert Ben Cowling
Professor Cowling is the Division Head of Epidemiology at HKU and a co-director of the WHO Collaborating Centre for Infections Disease Epidemiology and Control.
The man knows his stuff.
He was brough…
#37 - Hong Kong‘s first female professional MMA fighter, with Tricia Yap
Tricia was has worn a lot of fitness hats in the city. She was HK's first female professional MMA fighter, CNN referred to her as a fitness guru who helped women break boundaries and she founded the …
#36 - The story behind Hong Kong‘s recent mass arrests, with Antony Dapiran
The Hong Kong police have made mass arrests of politicians, lawyers, media and a whole bunch of people earlier this month.
The author of City On Fire Antony Dapiran rejoins the pod to fill us in on a…
#35 - From war in Beirut to fighting climate change in Hong Kong, with MANA! founder Bobsy Gaia
Bobsy Gaia grew up in war-torn Beirut and was enlisted as a child soldier in the civil war.
An insane journey led him to open the plant-based restaurant chain MANA! which has pioneered the plant-base…
#34 - New year, new Vivek. Find out what happened to the missing funnyman
2020 was tough for a range of reasons and Vivek had to take a step back from the pod when his health took a serious turn for the worse. Here's what happened and where he's at now.