Thursday, May 05, 2005
Hong Kong, baby!
Soundtrack: Random ambient Chinese tea music
Good arvo this arvo.
Guess where I am? The Hong Kong Teaware Museum! This place is just totally totally ace. They have the craziest teapots upstairs, because they had some sort of crazy teapot competition last year. For example, there's this teapot shaped like a piece of cheese, and the spout is a mouse poking its head out. And the matching cups are also shaped like mice. See? Crazy. The tea set that won was called "Make Tea Not War," and had two pots shaped like a US marine and a member of Al Qaeda, holding out a grenade and a missile respectively as spouts. The cups were all shaped as halves of shells. Bloody amazing.
They also got quite obsessed about what makes a perfect teapot. I took all the leaflets - they're pretty comprehensive. If I have some time later on in the holiday, I'll type them up for you to peruse - when you read them, you'll realise that I'm not really that obsessed by tea.
Right, better go before they chuck me off the computer.
Good arvo this arvo.
Guess where I am? The Hong Kong Teaware Museum! This place is just totally totally ace. They have the craziest teapots upstairs, because they had some sort of crazy teapot competition last year. For example, there's this teapot shaped like a piece of cheese, and the spout is a mouse poking its head out. And the matching cups are also shaped like mice. See? Crazy. The tea set that won was called "Make Tea Not War," and had two pots shaped like a US marine and a member of Al Qaeda, holding out a grenade and a missile respectively as spouts. The cups were all shaped as halves of shells. Bloody amazing.
They also got quite obsessed about what makes a perfect teapot. I took all the leaflets - they're pretty comprehensive. If I have some time later on in the holiday, I'll type them up for you to peruse - when you read them, you'll realise that I'm not really that obsessed by tea.
Right, better go before they chuck me off the computer.
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The flight from Heathrow to HKIA is 11 hours, and flight from HKIA to Melbourne is 8-and-a-half hours.
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