My Childhood in Hong Kong- Ch.10: Christmas gift exchange game
My mom wants me to explain that this story is not about her. LOL
My Childhood in Hong Kong- Ch.9: Silly Role Play Game
Boys’ role play games on Dragon ball and Gundam characters
Hong Kong kids were fascinated to all the heroic cartoons, especially Japanese cartoon characters. Drazon Ball characters and Gundam robots are common role play characters for boys back in the 80s and 90s Hong Kong. In fact, girls always thought that boy classmates were all fools when they were playing these games. hahaha…
DragonBall
One of the DragonBall weapon
Gundam Series: Weapon of one of the robots
My Childhood in Hong Kong- Ch.8: My toy pencil case
Toy Pencil Case
It was a big trend for all the kids in Asia! The magic pencil case not only carry all the stationeries, it is also equipped with all cool features and functionalities. Eraser and ruler pop up when kid clicks the buttons.
Image from 
http://flomo0.pixnet.net/
My Childhood in Hong Kong- Ch.7: How to loss a tooth
How to loss my tooth
How to loss my tooth
It was the traditional way to loss my tooth
My Childhood in Hong Kong- Ch.6: Visit my dream toy
Transformer robot: Dream toy of a lot of kids
As a girl, I was not a fan of toy robot, but I still remembered almost all boys loved Transformer robots. However, it was a luxury toy for the kids in the old Hong Kong. In order to “own” a Transformer, boys brought toy cards.
Toy card was another popular toy for Hong Kong and some Asia kids in 80s and early 90s. The card images were usually cartoon characters, robots, and pop singers. I was one of the collectors too. It was popular because of the low price. It was just HK$1 for each card (approx US$0.15). The picture below was another popular cartoon, Dragon Ball.
Dragon Ball card by Parco @ blog1.poco.cn
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My Childhood in Hong Kong- Ch.5: Noisy maker
Making noise was fun
Making noise was fun
When I was kid, there were many common ways to make noise. The comic shown the most popular ways to make stupid and annoying noise. Folding a “paper gun” was not easy. I still don’t know how to do this right now. I just remember my classmates loved to fold paper guns. When the paper guns were unfolded, it would produce a super loud noise. Another crazy way was using soy milk package. I just needed to blow up an empty “soy milk package”, and then step on it. Stepping on soy milk package was not allowed at school because soy milk would mess up the floor. But students, including me, loved to do this. hahahahah
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Paper gun by blog.hkbbs.net
Vita soy milk, a common noise maker
My Childhood in Hong Kong- Ch.4: Win me if U can… childish race
Childish race
Elevator race: a childish game
It was a common race among the kids when I was small. If the runner did some tricks, it was not hard to win. It may be impossible nowadays because the new elevators are so fast.
Photo by the-sun.on.cc
This is the elevator lobby of the old public housing in Hong Kong. Nowadays, the buildings definitely have smaller lobby. When I was young, this was a playground of kids.
My Childhood in Hong Kong- Ch.3: Another ridiculous childhood story
Throwing stuff off building was a bad, dangerous but common act by kids
Even though it is a common act, I still need to say it is very dangerous. Sometime, it kills.
When I was kid, I loved to watch a cartoon called “Ox Tales“. Ox Tales was an animated stories produced by Dutch. One of the main character Jack Turtleson was a silly turtle always cracked his shell and run his body out of the shell. That why I was mistaught for a long time.
(But of course, I need to explain, I didn’t throw a turtle out of the window.)
Twin tower design: remarkable old public housing
style in Hong Kong
This hollow tower design is really a remarkable design among the public housing history. This style is no longer used because of the low privacy among neighbor and low space efficiency.
Ox Tales
credit: http://www.geolocation.ws/
credit: http://www.rthk.org.hk/
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My Childhood in Hong Kong- Ch. 2 – Moon Festival
Moon Festival
Moon Festival is a children festival
Moon Festival,also as known as the Mid-Autumn Festival, Lantern Festival, Mooncake Festival or Zhongqiu Festival, is a popular lunar harvest festival. The official date of this festival is on the 15th of August of the Lunar calendar.
What do kids do on this festival? Playing lantern, eating moon cake, seeking night adventure, etc. Besides, wax boiling is another boys’ favorite game. It is done by heating candle wax to high temperatures and producing wax fire. When high temperature boiling wax is doused in water, giant fire flame is produced. It was a common fire game for Hong Kong kids, however, it is restricted by law nowadays because of the safety and environmental issues.
When boys play wax fire, girls play lanterns. Lantern comes with big variety, such as traditional candle lanterns and electronic lanterns. They are in different cartoon character or animal shape.
Different of China has different culture on Moon Festival, and this is the story about my place.
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Dangerous Wax Fire (credit: en.wikipedia.org)
Candle Lantern in Tiger shape (Credit: tw.tranews.com)
Electronic lantern in cartoon character （Credit: http://www.hanchinese.net)
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