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.
Episodes
Monday Jan 02, 2023
Monday Jan 02, 2023
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 measurements over the next few days. We try to jump the gun and predict what would the new "relaxed" HK be like.
Spot Mohammed's dog on HKFP Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/p/CbJ9lvNOsWw/
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Monday Jan 02, 2023
Monday Jan 02, 2023
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 mobile phones. Was a rogue Russian nuclear missile on the way to kill us all? Did someone escape their 5-star staycation at the luxurious resort of Tsing Yi isolation facility? Is there a hamster on the run?
We also get into our HK pet peeves, why Vivek hates the outdoors and why we don't fact-check anything we say.
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Monday Jan 02, 2023
Monday Jan 02, 2023
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, the new "The Batman" movie (no spoilers!) and HK hitting a new high of over 50K Covid infections in a single day to the lady who decided to give the MTR door a nice wipe with her tongue*, a cool hack we discovered at the HSBC ATM machine, flossing and a lot more general HK absurdity.
*No microphones were licked in the making of the cover photo.
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Monday Jan 02, 2023
Monday Jan 02, 2023
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 government doubling down on its Covid zero policy, mass testing is about to roll out, we're still here trying to deal with whatever is coming our way. Vivek's sister is trying to come back from the UK with no luck, Mohammed can't leave as moving his dog out of HK has become extremely costly, and somehow the world just gotten a whole lot worse with Russia declaring war on Ukraine. We go through it all.
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Monday Jan 02, 2023
Monday Jan 02, 2023
Under the current restrictions, it's illegal for us to have a guest in our studio (Vivek's living room), so we take this opportunity to discuss what went wrong with Hong Kong's handling of the pandemic.
There has been a lot of frustration and confusion in the community about how badly the Covid situation is being managed, we try to understand why that happened, how we got there and our insane ways to stay sane during these difficult times.
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Monday Jan 02, 2023
Monday Jan 02, 2023
Photographer Justin Lim has been featured by Instagram as a "Suggested User", and his work has been highlighted by VSCO, 500px, Flickr and more. As a result, he has collaborated with numerous brands on their social media branding, Influencer/KOL content creation and visual identity. Clients in this space include Omega, Tumi, MR PORTER, DJI Global and many others. Across his various social media platforms, he recently passed 100,000 followers.
We chat with Justin about the world of photography in HK, the vicious wedding photography industry, the often problematic relationship between photographers and young models as well as why film photography is making a come back!
Check out Justin's website here: http://www.justlimphoto.com/
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Monday Jan 02, 2023
Monday Jan 02, 2023
With HK gov insisting on chasing "zero Covid" policy no matter how unrealistic it is and how devastating it has been to the local businesses, we are seeing so many of our favorite businesses and venues disappear. Too many to count at this point. We decided to do everything we could to save our most favorite venue in Hong Kong, The Aftermath.
The Aftermath is an awesome live music/performance space, a great hang out spot/super cool bar right in the heart of Central, and just like all other F&B venues right now, The Aftermath is really struggling to keep its doors open. We chat with co-founder Kyle Haynes about the story of The Aftermath, what makes it so special and what we can do to help.
Check out the many ways you could support The Aftermath here: https://theaftermath-hk.club/
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Monday Jan 02, 2023
Monday Jan 02, 2023
Happy Year of The Tiger everyone! We're taking a break from having guests on this week and we do the long awaited Ask Us Anything episode. We asked our listeners on social media and on the podcast WhatsApp group to submit any questions they want to us to answer and we got many interesting questions. We answered them all, ran long had a lot of fun.
We answer questions like:
How do we get along and what it's like managing the podcast?
What would make us pack our suitcases?
How does political repression differ between Egypt, India and Hong Kong?
Assuming HK will remained closed for international travel for the foreseeable future, what are the plans to keep Backstage Comedy alive?
Our favorite comedians in HK?
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Monday Jan 02, 2023
Monday Jan 02, 2023
Another one bites the dust. La Rotisserie, a staple of the Hong Kong F&B scene since 2012, decided to pull the plug on all its branches on Jan 7, 2022. La Rotisserie was famous for its moderately priced roast chicken – a staple family-style dish in France. We sit down co-founder with Jerome Carlier to talk about the decision to shut La Rotisserie down, the challenges facing the F&B business in Hong Kong recently and how to make a perfect roast chicken in a small home oven!
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Monday Jan 02, 2023
Monday Jan 02, 2023
In December 2019, American Lawyer Samuel Bickett was leaving Causeway Bay MTR station when he saw a couple of older men in plain civilian clothes beating up a teenager with a baton. He tried to stop them and ended up getting arrested and charged with assaulting a police officer despite the men repeatedly saying that they're not police officers. He ended up spending over 2 months in a Hong Kong maximum security prison and he's now out on bail waiting for the next hearing. We sit down with Sam and get the full story.
Check out Samuel's blog here: https://samuelbickett.substack.com/
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Check out Craftissimo! https://www.instagram.com/craftissimohk/
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