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Time Out Hong Kong Magazine | Issue 47, February 3 – February 16 2010

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This issue: Find Love

Compared to heavy hitters like Paris or Rome, Hong Kong can’t plausibly be described as a city of romance. We might have enough brightly lit skyscrapers to illuminate a path to the moon and back, but we are conspicuously lacking in horse-drawn carriages, statues of cherubs and extravagant neoclassical fountains around which to linger with amorous intent. We also tend to work schedules that leave us more likely to collapse in an exhausted heap come the end of the day than to start composing sonnets or ponder what light through yonder window breaks (actually make that waaay yonder if your squeeze lives on the 25th floor).

That said, this old town of ours is undoubtedly one of the best places in the world to be single – even before we decided to invite you to date our friends. You heard right. We’ve given you inspiration, we’ve given you laughs, and now we’re even pimping out our friends to keep you pleasantly occupied this Valentine’s Day (p15). Meanwhile, Angie Wong asks whether 35 is the age to shape up or ship out for women in search of The One (p22) and then rounds up the best dining deals for V-Day and Chinese New Year (p30). But whatever you do this fortnight, you could do worse than to follow the advice of Mark Twain: “Dance like no one is watching, sing like no one is listening, love like you’ve never been hurt and live like it’s heaven on Earth.” I find a few drinks help with the first three.

Paul Kay
Editor-in-Chief

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