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Reflections on Returning to Hong Kong
On returning to Hong Kong and some new dining recommendations
After 22 years, I left Hong Kong for good in the summer of 2021. In the car to the airport, I made sure to look out of the window, desperate to hold onto everything I saw—the jagged skyline, the silent green hills, the shifting blue-green sea. We were post-National Security Law and in the midst of the pandemic; I did not know when I would return.