The infamous back, sack and crack is on the rise in HK so we sent one of our intrepid reporters to Ministry of Strip on Lyndhurst Terrace to experience a boyzilian first hand, and guess what? Waxing hurts men more.
Every Man's Grooming Mecca
The Grooming Lounge is an online resource for men that stocks a variety of products and ships nearly anywhere in the world. Although you can purchase most grooming products in Hong Kong, a lot of them (like deodorant) just aren’t up to scratch. When you go back home you tend to stock up on these scarce products as well as culinary delicacies (praying airport security don’t find those chicken kievs) but the Grooming Lounge is a much easier option.
Government Auction of Confiscated Goods
The Hong Kong government holds regular auctions of confiscated goods, with stolen cars and vessels making frequent appearances. The next one is scheduled for August 11, and apart from anything else, bidding for a once illicit vehicle must be an adrenaline pumping experience. Can you imagine driving around in a former triad’s Mercedes? It must be thrilling - except when you line up next to him at the lights.
Insightful Virtual Book Shelf
ShelfLuv is a virtual book shelf that displays books you’re interested in as well as books you’re likely to be interested in, ensuring you don't get book envy on your next holiday. If you once consumed the entire work of Chaucer but only brought a few Grisham paperbacks to Hong Kong, the interactive site is also a novel way of showing your pals you’re better read than they think you are. Pun very much intended.
Revamped Inspire for Men Offering Sensational New Services
Inspire for Men, the fitness and beauty specialist in Lee Gardens II, Causeway Bay, has just been revamped and is offering a raft of new services that will leave you in envious shape whatever your dismal starting position. You might even be able to pull off a v-neck.
Buy & Sell to your Heart’s Content
We’ve all made rash purchases we’d rather take back. Perhaps a minor aberration of on a night out when we’ve ended up with a selection of flashing sunglasses, a cute primate, or something at the more serious end of the scale such as a titanium cupboard – but this is where AsiaClassified steps in. If you’re looking to sell something you don’t need or buy something you think you need, it’s the place to go. They don’t discriminate against taste.
Void the Internet of Celebs you Hate
There are particular celebrities we think the world would be better off without. Lady Gaga. Justin Bieber. That grey haired man who appears next to Tyra Banks on America's Next Top Model. Which we don't watch, obviously. We're just too busy thinking about carburetors and extra strong lager. And don't even mention Tom Cruise.
Design Savvy Wood Furniture
There is nothing quite like wood to give your apartment a sense of the natural world. We're not talking saw dust that's been turned into kit-set book shelves here; real wooden furniture, with organic shapes and durability like nothing else.
Chinese Medicine in the Heart of Central
We all seem to have them; those little aches and pains that tend to surface when the mercury drops. They're nothing serious, but they crop up at the least convenient times, leaving us hobbling around like Quasimodo. Old injuries from midnight tennis matches, strains from midget tossing tournaments, pulled muscles from over ambitious diving off birthday junks. Gentlemen, we're not here to judge, but to sooth.
Taking the Hard Work out of Online Shopping
Anyone that's sat across the table from an indecisive date knows that often, too much choice is a seriously bad thing. Everywhere we go we have a myriad choices; set menu versus à la carte, do you want cream with your Grande soya mochaccino, will you fill your home Jacuzzi with brunettes or blondes this weekend?
Turn Your Facebook into a Real Book
For the past few decades, it's been drummed into us that we should get away from 'real' books, move away from paper, shun anything that isn't made up of 1s and 0s, and create a complete online persona. We should be reading books on Kindles and emailing photos and videos rather than having real conversations with people. And if we really do have to talk, it's via Skype or MSN chat, both of which we can fortunately access while on the go.
Vintage Watches in Causeway Bay
According to the American author, Ambrose Bierce, “experience is a revelation, in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age.” In other words, we never really stop learning or stop making mistakes; though here's hoping that when we're 60 we won't find ourselves waking up on the floor of someone else's bathroom dressed in a kimono with the remnants of our phone paddling in the sink and morsels of shawarma wedged in our teeth.
Online Personal Fitness Training
Ah, its the early chapters of a new year, when those resolutions still ring in the ears and all those good intentions remain fresh and potent. You're determined to make more time for yourself, and a big part of that is at the gym, where you have every intention of carving guns from blocks of pure man-metal, and building a six pack that you can literally grate cheese on. You know, as a party trick. But hell, who has the time? The gyms are filled with whooping, lycra-clad tai-tais and personal trainers who ask you to sign checks as you do squats.
Commit Web 2.0 Suicide Today
Some of you have thought about it; in fact there are probably more of you out there thinking about it than you realize. It's pretty serious stuff and you're probably best keeping it to yourself, because your friends just might not understand. And of course, if you're going to do it, if you've made your choice, you need to do it properly. The last thing you need is to get half way through and then mess the whole process up. That can't be good.
Hong Kong's Leading Cigar Shop
Many manly men have smoked cigars. King Edward VII loved to annoy his mother Queen Victoria with his stoogies, while former US president Ulysses S. Grant was said to smoke up to 12 cigars a day, and Sigmund Freud smoking more than 20.
Photography Classes for Digital Novices
So you bought yourself that fancy new digital SLR (or, all those subtle hints to the Mrs worked wonders). At any rate, it seems to be a Hong Kong pre-requisite to have a big flash camera and a lens that over compensates for anything you might be packing.
Even NecesCity Needs A Break At Christmas
It's almost that time of the year. You can see it in the eyes andslouched postures of your colleagues, you can hear it in the excitedchit chat of the lovelies, and you're bombarded with it every time youturn...
Give the Gift of NecesCity This Christmas
Part of being a guy is looking out for your mates. Like wolves, we tend to work and play in a pack; a close knit group of guys who understand where we're coming from and where we're trying to get, who know our humor and are always there with a sly comment and a cold beer. Karma has a way of shining down on a man who looks after his kin, and so does NecesCity.
Get Good Produce Home Delivered
It was probably almost a year ago that you last promised yourself (and your mother) that you would start eating better. But even the best intentions have a habit of straying. We all know how hectic life can get here in 'The Hong'; boozy work dinners, late nights at your desk, no sleep, and only enough time to grab a triple shot coffee and a few pieces of sushi (served on the bellies of glad wrapped beauties, mind) between meetings. It's little wonder you're a wreck at year's end.
Wan Chai's Gourmet Food Market
So you went through the paces; you smiled and charmed, you listened and learned, you waited with bated breath, took a plunge and now, in just a few hours time, the target of your attentions will be arriving at your humble abode, ready to judge your suitability as a life-long mate, solely on your home cooking. Now you could fake it, order pizza, take credit and start your affair on a lie, or you could man up, double knot your apron and bring out the inner Jamie.
An SMS Replicator App for Android Phones
Those pesky women, they can be as effective at catching you out as some of the best KGB and CIA moles combined. It's passion that drives them, and probably daddy issues that motivates them, but either way, the results are always ugly.
Learn The Art of Parkour
It wasn't really until the James Bond flick Casino Royale came out that most of us knew about Parkour, an acrobatic, death defying means of getting from A to B by somersaulting and leaping over barriers both natural and manmade. Seeing French actor and parkour founder Sébastien Foucan scale, jump, leap and role through his escape from Britain’s most lethal spy sparked a parkour renaissance of sorts, bringing the art from the obscurity of documentaries, into the warmth of the lime light.
The Spa for Real Men
Just cause you're a burly bloke doesn't mean you can't pamper yourself from time to time. Just because the male version of 'Sex in the City' is a bit more risqué, doesn't mean we guys don't like to look after ourselves. And just because we dress in power suits and drink black coffee, doesn't mean we can't do with a visit from the Self Confidence Fairy now and then.
Secure Your Online Persona
Privacy. It means different things to different people, but whether you're an extrovert or the king of the local party scene, there is always a fine line between what you know and what you want others to know.
One of the best things about Asia is that you can get almost anything you want tailored. You want a pair of mahagony-hued loafers in size 47? You got it. You want a Chesterfield that folds out into an impromptu love mat? No problem. And if you want a sex doll that has all the innocence of an early Brittany, and all the compliance of a later Lohan, it's not going to be an issue.
Get Chauffeur Driven in Style with Regent VIP
Remember when you were young and being able to drive was paramount to the happiness of your entire life? The feeling of the open road, of freedom, of having a mobile bedroom. Yet because so few of us drive here in Hong Kong – unless you have a second wife in Shenzhen - there's really no need to have a car full time so those hours spent behind the wheel and the convenience that comes with it are lost.
Tour the City's Top Tables
Few cities have the culinary culture that we're lucky enough to have inHong Kong. Basically if they cook it anywhere in the world, you couldprobably find a version here, not to mention the countless provincialChinese styles that can be found for those truly willing to look, and put their taste buds – and stomach contents – on the line. What you need is a guide – someone that knows where they're going and (unlike you last weekend) to put in your mouth.
Be A Gift Giver
Deep down, we all enjoy the sense of giving. Remembering a mate's birthday with a bottle of rare whiskey, or surprising your lady friend with a little baby blue jewelery box that's sure to make an impact. It brings out the humanity in us to put a smile on the dial of those that we we care about, or even in the case of business, those that hold the money that we care about. And gift baskets are the Jenna Jameson of giving (and yes, she's named for the Irish whiskey).
According to a Nielsen Company study, 90 percent of us will trust a friend's opinion over almost anything else. This not only throws trust issues on to our already towering stack of emotional luggage, but it also puts us in a bit of a bind when it comes to the 20,000 or so decisions we make every day. Blonde or brunette? Beer or whiskey? Fish or chicken? It's endless.
Extend Your Own Charismatic Authority
Many of the world's most power-hungry despots suffered from the Cult of Personality. Mao, Ho Chi Minh, Stalin and even modern day leaders like Chavez, use mass media and their governmental control, to project their presence everywhere.
