Po from the movie Kung Fu Panda is adorable, but he comes nowhere near the charm of real-life giant pandas. Meet Le Le and Ying Ying from Ocean Park in Hongkong! These 2 lovable giants are mainstays at the Amazing Asian Animals complex. Pandas are proof that huge and cute are two words that go together. One look at them and you know you just can’t resist that hug-inducing feeling. I could not stop gushing as I felt like a kid

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Armed with a heavy lunch from Yuen Kee and finally certain on the places that we wanted to see for the rest of the afternoon, we set-off and rode the Tsuen Wan Line MTR.  From the TST station, we got off at the Central station. We lingered at every interesting detail along the way (including a group of factory workers holding a protest in front of a park) that it took us a bit longer than the usual 10-minute walk to get

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It took one double-decker bus ride from HKIA before we found ourselves right smack in the middle of   Kowloon, in the busy Tsim Sha Tsui (TST) district. TST is too lively that resting is unthinkable, so as soon as we found a cheap place to stay for the next couple of days, we left our bags and explored the area.   Boutiques were lined up on the streets, shopping malls sprawled all over the place, wares sold on the street (I

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