been reading this shaking my head at silly and wrong stereotypes on Italians - if this is the level of Italian cliches imagine for countries further away. Venetians calling for San Gennaro? Why call for the patron saint of Naples when they have San Marco? Who says they called for a saint? Uggghh.

I was at HKU yesterday and this is what the “democracy wall” looks like now. It has the same name. And cameras though. But nothing else

Pubblicità: fra qualche settimana esce il mio nuovo libro!

Now that my inability to tell a nymphaea from a lotus is out in the open, any suggestions about reads on nymphaea?

Can anyone suggest reads about lotuses?

Found on Lantau

Cecilia is free!!!! Cecilia è libera!!!

First demonstration I see in HK since 2019. Of two

I was told the story of 杜康 or Du Kang or Dou6Hong1 (Cantonese) the mythical inventor of alcoholic beverages in China and how his son by mistake left a pot of wine lidless for 21 days and so the character for vinegar has “wine” on one side and 20, 1, and “day” stacked on the other 廿, 一, 日 🤯

Oggi su Review, insieme a @ilfoglio.bsky.social c’è anche una mia storia! Andate in edicola 😊

So Terry Gou might be everywhere but the campaign seems a bit slow

Reporting from Taiwan on boba pizza: a total mistake