Recently added to my Hong Kong reading list.

• Pete Spurrier’s The Serious Hiker’s Guide to Hong Kong, one of the many useful hiking guides for Hong Kong. There are so many trails and scenic paths that you will welcome having a guidebook.

• Food is one of the reasons why many people on a visit to Hong Kong. Get Tatler’s Best Restaurants or the WOM guide, the Hong Kong equivalent to New York’s Zagat.

• The Hong Kong Explorer Guide is one of the two must-have books for expats setting up home in Hong Kong for a while.

Check them out or the other books in the selection below.

We are getting more serious in developing content for Blue Hong Kong: here is our reading list.

• Martin Booth’s Gweilo, a funny account of the author’s childhood in Hong Kong in the 1950’s. It provides a glimpse in how much Hong Kong has changed in less than 50 years.

• Frank Welsh’s A History of Hong Kong. It would have been better to call this book “A history of British rule in Hong Kong”. Interesting read but disappointingly scarce on anecdotes and stories about places in the city.

• Much more interesting are James Clavell’s clever novels built around two periods in the city’s life. In Tai Pan, he describes the origins of the city in the 1850’s. In Noble House, Clavell offers a glimpse in the business life of Hong Kong in the mid-1970’s. Both are must-read for whoever wants to have a very enjoyable introduction to Hong Kong.

We thoroughly enjoyed reading these books while doing our research on Hong Kong, and BlueHongKong.net readers can expect to find some anecdotes and insight from these books later in the spring as we start our journey through Hong Kong.The links below lead you to Amazon’s reviews.