Zolima City Mag

Zolima CityMag, designed for unique families, was established in October 2015 by Nicole Andrianjaka de Surville, a creative mother of three with a business mindset. This project is driven by a passion for guiding families on a journey to explore the world’s most lively cities in an inspiring, innovative, and unconventional manner, with Hong Kong as the inaugural destination. We recognize that there is a global audience eager for experiences that connect them to the heart of a city. Unlike typical travel magazines or city guides, we don’t just offer basic lists of family-friendly attractions. Our focus is on uncovering the true essence of each city through compelling stories that reflect the human experience. Zolima CityMag delves into art, history, culture, design, and the people who shape these vibrant places. We believe there’s always something valuable to learn or rediscover, whether you’re visiting a city for the first time or have lived there for years. Our hope is that parents will share our discoveries with their children, encouraging them to view the world with curiosity and fresh perspectives.

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Hereafter: Hong Kong Composer Charles Kwong’s First Concerto

6 days ago | zolimacitymag.com | Rob Garratt

When Super Typhoon Saola struck Hong Kong in summer 2023, there were inevitably those that celebrated time off work, those who mourned missed weekend social engagements, and those that were deeply inconvenienced. But few people might have felt the heartbreak of Charles Kwong, the Hong Kong composer who was looking forward to the world premiere of his first concerto, for piano and orchestra.
What’s Behind the Rise of Specialty Coffee in Hong Kong

2 weeks ago | zolimacitymag.com | Christopher DeWolf

Shek Wu Hui is a bustling old market town, an old-fashioned kind of place where goods of all kinds spill out from vintage walkup buildings: lively but far from trendy. It’s certainly not the kind of place where you’d expect to find specialty coffee. And yet, there it is, in a white-walled shop with local art on the walls, French electropop group playing on the stereo and a crowd of twentysomething regulars chatting with the barista as he pulls shots of espresso from a Marzocco machine.
Who Runs 300 Kilometres of Hong Kong Hiking Trails in Less Than 72 Hours? These People

2 weeks ago | zolimacitymag.com | Elizabeth Kerr

Robin Lee needs a better suit. Not on this humid evening in late March – but he’ll need better duds for the upcoming 43rd Hong Kong Film Awards, where he’s in the running for best new director and best editing for his first feature documentary Four Trails (香港四徑大步走) about the Hong Kong Four Trails Ultra Challenge (HK4TUC).
Happy Valley Cemeteries: 470 Graves Tell the Story of Japanese Hong Kong

3 weeks ago | zolimacitymag.com | Christopher DeWolf

There is not a living soul in sight at the Hong Kong Cemetery on a cool March afternoon. Birdsong pierces the dull roar of traffic heading to the nearby Aberdeen Tunnel. Towards the back of the graveyard, past monuments to fallen British soldiers and seemingly countless people who died of malaria in the 1850s, there is an unusual cluster of tall, narrow tombstones: Japanese graves.
Hong Kong Motherhood Gets the Big Screen Treatment

3 weeks ago | zolimacitymag.com | Elizabeth Kerr

Actors Hedwig Tam Sin-yin and Lo Chun-yip are sitting in the screening room at the office of Montages of a Modern Motherhood distributor Golden Scene. Lo looks like the schoolteacher he played in Nick Cheuk’s Time Still Turns the Pages, decked out in a cardigan and blue dress shirt. Tam is a little more glammed up in a cool black and white patterned dress complemented by impeccable styling.
The Lost Mansions of the Mid-Levels, Part V: Paul Chater’s Marble Hall

4 weeks ago | zolimacitymag.com | Christopher DeWolf

Sir Catchick Paul Chater was a tycoon like none other. Not only did he have a hand in many of colonial Hong Kong’s most pivotal enterprises, from Jardines to Dairy Farm to Hongkong Electric to The Wharf, he literally reshaped the city. In 1889, a few decades after arriving in Hong Kong from his native Calcutta, where he was born into a family of Armenian origin, he founded Hongkong Land and laid the groundwork for Hong Kong’s first major land reclamation project.
How Lucid Express Became an Hong Kong Hit Overseas

1 month ago | zolimacitymag.com | Rob Garratt

The hazy, effervescent sonic poetry of Lucid Express appears bathed in a nocturnal, neon half-light – perhaps because it’s normally carved out after midnight. The dreamy indie band are among Hong Kong’s greatest guitar-based exports, one of the few acts to have built a sustained reputation overseas.
True Love, A Raw Look at Relationships Shot Entirely on an iPhone

1 month ago | zolimacitymag.com | Elizabeth Kerr

“I’m curious about a Western woman’s opinion, really,” says Fruit Chan as he settles into his seat at what’s effectively a around table discussion of his latest film as a producer, True Love, For Once in My Life (淺淺歲月), a decades-spanning drama about a Hong Kong woman whose marriage collapses in divorce. “I want to know what’s your angle, because in Asia a lot of men are very…” He trails off, which allows the film’s star, Cecilia Yip Tung, sitting across from him, to interject.
How Tai On Coffee and Tea Revived a Vintage Bing Sutt

1 month ago | zolimacitymag.com | Christopher DeWolf

It’s late on a Monday morning and a low buzz of conversation fills Tai On Coffee and Tea. Customers are seated in vintage wood booths, munching on egg tarts and breakfast sets of luncheon meat noodles, as a ballad by Cantopop star Hacken Lee plays over the stereo. On the surface, it’s the picture of a classic Hong Kong-style café, and indeed, Tai On has stood at 830 Canton Road in Yau Ma Tei since 1969. But a closer look reveals this is anything but a typical bing sutt or cha chaan teng.
How the Oil Street Artists' Village Sparked a Creative Awakening

1 month ago | zolimacitymag.com | Christopher DeWolf

Sometimes the toughest times are the most rewarding. In the final years of the 20th century, Hong Kong was still reeling from the Asian financial crisis of 1997. The economy was in stubborn recession. The Hang Seng Index had lost nearly two thirds of its value. In the spring of 1999, the city’s unemployment rate hit an all-time high of 6.3 percent. Faced with a downturn in the property market, the government had suspended all sales of its own property.