Medicine Street Seeks Prescription for Survival
Ko Shing Street in Sheung Wan has been a wholesale centre for Chinese medicine for decades. The street is renowned for its high-quality herbs and dried seafood. But the opening of the West Island Line is pushing up rent. Varsity asks the street's vendors about how they see their future.
Preserving the Bloom
Want to send flowers that will never wilt to your special ones? Try pressed flower art to freeze petals and leaves in time.
Paradise for Shutterbugs
Take offbeat and crazy photos that will trick people’s eyes at the city’s first 3D museum.
Fly High
Paragliding lets you get a birds-eye view of Hong Kong by flying up with the birds.
Hard To Say Goodbye
Wah Fu Estate, with its ocean views, spectacular sunsets, fresh sea breezes and a Pok Fu Lam address, is not a luxury residential complex but a public housing estate with 18 concrete blocks. When it welcomed its first low-income residents in 1967, the area was a remote backwater. Now with land scarce and housing in short supply, Wah Fu faces what some consider to be long-overdue revelopment. Still, many residents will miss the old days and the ties that bind in this old Hong Kong community.
Bring Your Own Bottle
Discover where the nearest public water fountain or dispenser is and do away with the need to buy expensive bottled water or add to Hong Kong's straining landfills by downloading the Water for Free mobile app.
Make An Impression
Want to impress your loved ones with beautiful hand-made greeting cards? Try making an impression with letterpress printing.
Dyeing for the Blues
Don't mind getting your fingers blue? Try your hand at indigo dyeing and make your own unique tote bag, t-shirts or pencil case.
Band of Brothers: Hong Kong’s Last Shipbuilders
The shipbuilding industry in Hong Kong has long since said goodbye to its golden era. But the city's ship-builders have adapted to the times with a thriving yacht repair business. Varsity looks at the bonds between the shipbuilders, fostered over decades of working together and keeping the business afloat.
The Grounding of Hong Kong’s Kites
Kites - inexpensive to buy or make and fun to fly - were once a familiar sight above the rooftops of urban Hong Kong. But as the city's skyline grew higher and regulations to protect air traffic were introduced, they began to disappear from the city's skies. Varsity looks at Hong Kong's kite-flying culture and talks to those who are still holding on to this aspect of our collective memory.
