Snake soup is a Chinese delicacy that contains as many as five different types of snake meat. Boiled with ingredients such as pork bones, chicken, and spices, this thick and flavorful soup is especially popular in Hong Kong during the winter months.

Hong Kong is a Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China, which means that it enjoys greater political and social autonomy than mainland China, separate administrative and legal systems (based on British common law) and a separate currency (the Hong Kong Dollar, HKD$).

The name 'Hong Kong' is Cantonese for 'fragrance harbor'.

Hong Kong consists of three main territories - Hong Kong Island, Kowloon and New Territories - plus more than 260 smaller (and mostly uninhabited) islands, located where the Pearl river meets the South China Sea.

Hong Kong had been under the British Crown rule for 155 years, from 1842 untill 1997.

Both Chinese and English are the official languages in Hong Kong. English is widely used in the Government and by the legal, professional and business sectors.

HK ranks #1 among the cities with the most number of skyscrapers in the world.

Victoria Peak or commonly known as 'The Peak' is the highest point on Hong Kong Island and offers a breathtaking view over Victoria Harbor.

'Big Buddha' is a 34m tall statue located on a Lantau Island. It is the second-largest outdoor sitting Buddha in the world.

In 2008 'The Dark Knight' came to HK to film a scene in which the caped crusader captures mob accountant Lau. The building in question is Two International Financial Centre, over 400m tall and at the time the tallest in the city.

The International Commerce Centre rises above the city skyline to 484m and is the tallest skyscraper in Hong Kong.

Vanity is a mark of humility rather than of pride.

Read some good, heavy, serious books just for discipline: Take yourself in hand and master yourself.

I felt unworthy to play Jesus. I just accepted the responsibility and said, 'What actor wouldn't want to play this role?'

Only he who desires is amiable and not he who is satiated.

If you're embarrassed because you have some notion about how men are supposed to behave, and it doesn't include weeping, then you have some personal work to do.

Flirting is the gentle art of making a man feel pleased with himself.

I really don't take any interest at all in contemporary comedy.

We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the life that is waiting for us.

Women are trying to have it all but are trying to regain control over their time. That's why many women are busting out of the traditional workforce and starting their own businesses.

Tea with us became more than an idealization of the form of drinking; it is a religion of the art of life.

Hasty conclusions lead to speedy repentance.

There are not a lot of sons or daughters of actors who have made it. Hollywood is awash with failures.

The nature of the video camera really makes you focus on the present. Since I have always been a diarist filmmaker, not one who stages scenes with actors, it has always been about the present moment.

And when I started college, I think I was good at two things: arguing and asking questions.

When things happen to you in the worst way, you live with it, you go over it, you think, 'What else could I have done?'

America is remarkable, don't you think so? When I came to Washington, I was twelve years old. I spoke English with an English accent. It was assumed that it would go on in that way.

The punters know that the horse named Morality rarely gets past the post, whereas the nag named Self-interest always runs a good race.

The more you care, the stronger you can be.

Here in the United States, we have between 250 and 300 years of a coal supply. That is more than the amount of recoverable oil contained in the entire world.

Conservatives and companies condoned Rush Limbaugh's politics of personal destruction when it came to smearing elected officials. 'Fair game,' they said, even when crass and crude. That's just the way it is.

I understand about the relative strengths of people, and I don't think people have to be anything. They can be nothin' if they want to be.

You're only as good as the people you hire.

We owned a bearded collie for many years. Sophie. She was old, and she died last year.

I'm a classically trained painter, and I was an illustrator in New York working with Fortune 500s companies as well as the NBA and the Olympics. I first got into sculpting when I created a sculpture based on a painting I had done for the 1984 Olympics.