A gentle start to the week. From HKFP, an interesting look at how neighbourhood restaurants and customers are adapting to the new rules against plastic and polystyrene disposable items…
[Customer] Lam, who was buying lunch at a “two-dish rice” shop in Western district, brought his own reusable plastic lunchbox. He aimed to reduce waste, not to replace one type of waste with another, he said.
…[Restaurant manager] Lam … said he was concerned about hygiene, as the paper utensils were more prone to mould.
In Sham Shui Po’s Dragon Centre, a shop selling rice noodles in soup had stocked up on paper bowls. Its owner Yu said his old supplier had yet to design a bowl that could withstand the temperature of hot soup.
Officials are not enforcing the new rules yet, but proactively explaining them to restaurant owners. Contrast with the government’s failure to implement its green household waste bags.
At a restaurant far away: Hong Kong artist duo Lumli Lumlong unveil a beguiling mural at the Fishing Village Kitchens in Manchester, England. Would be a good poster for a Terry Gilliam movie…
Which sort of leads us to a thread (with video) on a BBC interview with Election etc film director Johnnie To on plans for the future and the current state of Hong Kong.
Speaking of Terry Gilliam, Brazil is an amazing movie and reminds me a lot of the absurd situation in HK. The terrorists in Brazil were completely imaginary and it was their “amazing” over engineered tech that was randomly blowing up.