Ho Ho Hong Kong

After 3 years of compulsory mask mandate in Hong Kong, on March 1, 2023 the mask mandate was finally lifted and we were able to walk around the city mask-free without fear of a hefty fine. Now a week…

"Hello Hong Kong" Campaign launched to promote Hong Kong around the world. 

Ok great. What about that slogan though? We come up with alternative slogans while we chat about gratitude, people in Hong …

On February 15 2023, Russell Peters performed at Star Hall in Kai Tak in front of a sold out crowd of over 3000 people (Vivek thought it was 8000 pax, Mohammed thought it was 1000 pax). We were there…

It's valentine's day week and we are coming at you with a bunch of stories. Vivek does a couple pro bono gigs and regrets it but good news! he turned into a superhero and there's plenty of free merch…

In 1999, Nick Willsher founded HKClubbing.com as he couldn't find reliable info on where the good parties were. Today almost 24 years later, HKclubbing grew to be the ultimate Hong Kong nightlife gui…

We survived CNY shenanigans but not completely unscathed. Mohammed has taken his entire family all over HK for almost 3 weeks and he is "never gonna financially recover from this". Luckily for us, he…

If it's travel, passport or visa related, we can rely on Mohammed (and evidently the rest of his family) to make some highly entertaining bad decisions. This is probably the riskiest one so far. Moha…

Hong Kong has its borders wide open and the CNY holiday is upon us. Mohammed's family decided to visit from Egypt for the first time and he has a lot to rant about. Where do people actually go for "t…

We are back to our regular scheduled programming and this week we have a retuning fan-favorite, Mr. John Buckman. John has a long history of starting, running and selling successful startups and he w…

Happy 2023 everyone! We are back. We made it through, well .. kind of. This is more of a #yolo episode but hey we are back with a stacked episode, catching you up on everything that happened in Hong …

The city seems to be opening back up for real! Quarantine for inbound travelers continues to be only one week (3 days if you're flight crew!), restaurants are allowed to run up to 10 pm (yay!?), some…

Shanghai is still under arguably the world's most strict Covid lockdown since the pandemic began. Some residents have been locked inside their apartments for over 50 days. Amid news of food shortages…

Family drama alert! Vivek's sister made it to Hong Kong literally a few minutes before her PR expired, we take the opportunity to catch up with her with one simple goal in mind: Understand what she d…

We made it to episode 100! Yup, we can't believe it either. For the 100th episode, we pack our equipment and head to Sun Yat-sen Memorial Park in Sai Ying Pun. We riff on everything happening around …

You get a ban, you get a ban, and you get a ban!

This week on HK shenanigans: The government lifted the flight ban on 9 countries then immediately banned Emirates Airlines far a week. Everyone in HK …

As of April 1, Quarantine for travelers coming into Hong Kong will be cut to 1 week, which means we can probably start making plans for some summer travels! We chat about our favorite travel destinat…

HK CE "feels" like Hong Kongers' tolerance for the harsh anti-epidemic measures is "fading" .. after more than 2 years. So she said they would review the policies and ease up some of the harsh measur…

This week on HK shenanigans, the government decided to use their swanky emergency alert system (which reportedly costed 150 million HKD) to send everyone in the city an emergency alert to their mobil…

It's week 3 of no-guests allowed in our studio thanks to Covid precautions and restrictions, and we go all out on this one. We discuss everything from bananas to weird fruits that no one is buying, t…

Hong Kong just saw the highest number of its residents ever leave over the course of a week, over 27,000 residents, locals and expats left with one-way tickets with no plans to return. With the gover…