Chinese herbal tea is a folk-medical kind of tonic popular among the locals. There is a great variety of herbal teas of which the most common are for dispelling the heat-evil, a Chinese traditional medicine term referring to the hotness-related illnesses like dry eyes. For whatever uses, a bowl (usually filled in a bowl) of iced Chinese herbal tea is always refreshing, comparable to a glass of lemon squash if you asked me. If you’re not sure where to try’em in Hong Kong, today’s shot features the Good Spring in Central. You can’t miss it:
(Grip On Reality: This photo was taken on my way to work. I was walking past trucks parking on a cul-de-sac when the ropes caught my attention. The light was right, the colour was right and the criss-crossing pattern was perfect and I held up my GX200. People passing by checked me out and wondered what could be made out of such a boring scene. To me, the fun in photography is that the photographer makes something interesting out of what is not obvious to most at the scene. The ropes tied in knots somehow reminded people I know who are in the grip of the recession) You must have also known a friend or two, or even yourself, being baffled by the spiral downturn of the economy. Bank went bankrupt and the rich was faced with a shrinking wealth. A friend of mine has just had his salary cut by over 10% and some of his colleagues started to be shed. But, wait. Was this done really for the sake of continuing the business? Or is there a factor or greed in it? I wonder whether the
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