In a 1920s a small architects drew up plans for a excellent hotel east of Suez as well as when The Peninsula Hong Kong opened its doors in 1928, a hotel remade Kowloon from a exhausted backwater to a focal point of a colourful amicable life. Home to on vacation tycoons as well as film stars, a shining hotel has been declare to a thespian history of Hong Kong, weathering war as well as troops occupation. The Pen as this Grande Dame is affectionately known has seen a lot, as well as has thousands of stories to tell. So its only wise that to celebrate its 82nd anniversary this past December, The Peninsula launched Our Hong Kong, a beautiful book filled with 50 personal stories from a hotels staff, divulgence their passion as well as knowledge for a city.
The book reveals Hong Kong through a eyes of insiders like Johnny Chung, Senior Bartender, who is a longest portion staff partial of with some-more than 53 years of service. Available in all rooms as well as suites, a beautifully with pictures book is chock full of anecdotes illustrating a obtuse known aspects of Hong Kong, such as 500-year-old villages, a small island where prawn paste is still made by hand, as well as singular festivities such as a annual Fire Dragon Dance.
Visitors to The Pen in 2011 can participate in a Our Hong Kong program, that will embody excursions to singular areas as well as activities introduced by staff as partial of The Peninsula Academy, a hotels award-w! inning C hinese Cultural Experience learning vacation program, as well as special menus in a hotels Chinese restaurant, Spring Moon, featuring home-grown meals that paint a culinary heritage of Hong Kong.
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