#FlyWashington Magazine Summer 2018 | Page 27

HONG KONG

BY JENNY PETERS
Despite the changes that have taken place in Hong Kong over the last twenty years since the British returned the city to China’ s sovereignty, the still mostly-autonomous territory remains true to its longstanding nickname, as the Pearl of the Orient. And while that moniker may have sprung from the Pearl River Delta that forms one of the city’ s many watery borders, Hong Kong has always been known as the epicenter of Asia’ s cultural, business, arts, fashion and culinary worlds.
Everyone knows that Hong Kong is the place to have world-class bespoke clothing created( in just a few days), but did you know it’ s also a wonderful place to take the whole family? Beyond its highly-sophisticated exterior, Hong Kong has plenty of exciting things to entertain children as well as adults.
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