WHILE WE WERE PUFFING,wheezing and sweating our way up the likes of Ladder Street to get to happy hour drinks in Soho in May, Hongkonger Ada Tsang became the fastest woman to climb Mount Everest. The endeavour usually takes 40 days from Base Camp due to acclimatisation, but Tsang completed it in just 26 hours—14 hours faster than the previous female record holder. It seems 44-year-old Tsang, a teacher, wasn’t content with her climb of Everest in 2017, her third attempt after the first two were thwarted by avalanches, joining a rare club of local women who have reached the summit, including Annabelle Bond. Instead of flying home and getting some well-earned rest, Tsang celebrated her record by tackling another mountain, Lhotse, the fourth-highest in the world. “I always tell my team, ‘Aim high, expect high, so you can achieve high.’ When I reached the mountain top, I felt like I proved this was not just empty talk,” she told the South China Morning Post. Consider us extraordinarily in awe.
IN THE LATEST SURPRISING CLOSURE, Hong Kong foodies will be forced to bid farewell to Okra, the punk-themed izakaya in Sai Ying Pun that opened in 2016. The fun, edgy and intimate eatery struck a chord with innovative dishes like dry-aged sashimi and its solid sake menu. After getting married last year, chef-owner Max Levy and sake sommelier Izaskun Levy will be taking a sabbatical to celebrate their honeymoon and spend time with his family in the US. By the time you read this, the ground floor izakaya will have closed while the upstairs omakase dining room will remain open until the end of the month. What’s next? Before the pandemic hit, the couple had planned to open a restaurant in Ibiza. Their time out will give them a chance…
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Tatler Hong Kong (Digital) - 1 Issue, July 2021
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