Enoch enthuses about the (upmarket) shopping mall experience in Hong Kong, but I feel this is the typical phenomenon of Asia adopting Western consumer tastes just as they are about to decline.
The Economist has documented how these shopping behemoths are dying, and it is not too difficult to see why. The process is being accelerated [...]
Din Tai Fung
World Square Shopping Centre, 644 George St, Sydney
(02) 9264 6010
Cuisine: Chinese
Opening hours: Daily 11 a.m.–2:30 p.m., 5–10 p.m.
Tommy raised the existence of this restaurant, and insisted we try out the authentic Taiwanese cuisine for about a week before we finally relented. DTF’s welcoming facade was a welcome salve for the otherwise cold and [...]
… or SydLink, as its been branded, is — let’s face it — bad. Sydney desperately needed new public transport investment and this was the least costly solution with the biggest political impact.
Whatever heavy transport solution was proposed needed to cross Sydney Harbour, as the existing path across the Bridge is at maximum capacity. Instead [...]
That’s the headline. I think I may have to wet myself. Recall that I advocated for a national approach to public transport planning and infrastructure. Here Rudd is talking about federal government input through the prism of tackling climate change, chiefly through the putative emissions trading system, which has become such a thorny political issue.
The [...]
I felt a twinge in my head every time I used the ticket barriers at Central Station at the country platforms end, and for a long time it drove me insane. But I’ve finally worked out what it is. The honchos at CityRail are using young peoples’ superior hearing against them. This is so diabolically [...]
