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Tai Tung Bakery in Hong Kong

April 11, 2025

Pop into any local-style bakery or cha chaan teng (a local-style diner) in Hong Kong, and you’re likely to encounter a fist-sized bun with a scored top. This is the pineapple bun, named not for any tropical ingredient, but rather for that surface, which is thought to resemble that of the eponymous fruit. These days, the pineapple bun is found at Chinese bakeries across the world, but it got its start in Hong Kong. It was possibly first made...

Plain Folk Live Music Cafe in Pleasant...

April 11, 2025

About a 30-minute drive north of Cincinnati proper is the rural village of Pleasant Plain, Ohio. It’s a classic small town with a tiny population and farms sprawling in most directions. Despite its distance from the city, however, many make the trip to visit the old village schoolhouse, now home to the Plain Folk Live Music Cafe. Plain Folk is part cafe, part performance venue built inside a historic 1913 school building. Several of the schoolhouse’s original features remain,...

Titanic's Legacy: Our Favorite Reads

April 11, 2025

Just before midnight on April 14, 1912, the RMS Titanic struck an iceberg. What happened next should be a familiar story by now: The iceberg ripped open the hull of the ship’s starboard side, flooding the compartments with the icy waters of the North Atlantic. The closest ship was hours away, and there weren’t enough lifeboats to accommodate all the passengers. Of the 2,224 people estimated to be on board, more than 1,500 died. The disaster has been the...

Jesse James Bank Museum in Liberty, Missouri

April 11, 2025

The infamous James gang stole $60,000 dollars from this bank. Two of the gang entered casually when they knew only a father and son would be working. After asking for change of a $10 bill, the robbers held the teller and his son at gunpoint, forcing them into the safe. After the gang took their fill, they shot wildly into the air in celebration, killing a local college student. The museum features a back room with photos and sparse memorabilia...

Top Hotel Marketing KPI Recommendations from Hospitality...

April 11, 2025

Question for Our Hotel Marketing Expert Panel Beyond ROAS (Return on Ad Spend), which digital marketing KPIs best help hotels track performance and align with their commercial strategy? (Question proposed by Stephanie Smith) Our Marketing Expert Panel Moriya Rockman – Chief of Marketing, Smiling House Luxury Global The post Top Hotel Marketing KPI Recommendations from Hospitality Leaders appeared first on Revfine.com.

10 Hotel Rewards Programs to Maximize Revenue...

April 11, 2025

Hotel rewards programs are among the most powerful tools available to hoteliers. A strategically leveraged program will both increase repeat bookings through incentives and provide guest data that can be used to provide further growth. The process builds up a defensible market share, pushes up RevPAR, and reduces the overall cost of acquisition. In this The post 10 Hotel Rewards Programs to Maximize Revenue & Guest Loyalty appeared first on Revfine.com.

Volcán Pabellones in Peru

April 10, 2025

When it comes to points of nature around the world, sometimes it’s difficult to find truth on what site truly earns an honorific. There are numerous claims by local tour guides and on the Internet about the “smallest” volcano in the world. Volcán Pabellones, about 26 feet (8 meters) high and approximately 13 feet (4 meters) in diameter, just might take the crown. The tiny volcano sits behind small houses off a through road hours south of Cusco. Surrounded...

Machu Colca in Urubamba, Peru

April 10, 2025

There are other “Machus” than Machu Picchu. “Machu” simply means “old” in the Peruvian language Quechua, and there are many other old, beautiful places to visit in the Sacred Valley, north of Cusco. Machu Colca is one of them. Also called Machuqolqa or Machu Qollqa, it is an easy-to-access place, with a hiking variation that makes it more adventurous. “Colca” derives from “qollca,” which is the Quechuan word for storage. Yes, quite literally, this site is an old storage facility,...

Lake San Cristobal in Hinsdale County, Colorado

April 10, 2025

About 800 years ago, a large section of Mesa Seco on the edge of the Lake City caldera broke off and moved down the steep slopes of the mesa. Rather than a large slide of rock, which would be common in the steep Colorado Rockies, the material flowed down the hill, almost like a river. This river of rock, mud, and gravel was called the Slumgullion Mass Flow. It flowed about four miles into the Lake Fork of the...

Soundwalk in Denver, Colorado

April 10, 2025

As you stroll along the sidewalk in Curtis Street in Denver, you might notice something unusual between 15th and 16th Street. One moment, you might hear the gentle trickle of water as if a hidden stream flows beneath the city. The next, you could be startled by the rumble of thunder or the clucking of chickens. That’s because, hidden underneath the sidewalk’s six stainless steel grates, are speakers piping in an eclectic mix of pre-recorded sounds. The installation was created...

Tai Ping Koon Restaurant in Hong Kong

April 10, 2025

The legend goes that, in 1930s Hong Kong, a foreign customer at Tai Ping Koon Restaurant couldn’t remember the name of a menu item and asked for “sweet wings,” which a waiter misheard as “Swiss wings.” It’s likely apocryphal, but the name and the dish—chicken wings in a sweet/salty/savory glaze—became one, and Swiss wings are now a Hong Kong classic, found at restaurants across the territory. At Tai Ping Koon, the place where the dish was invented, the wings...

Jump Shots at 6,000 Feet: Inside Oaxaca's...

April 10, 2025

“A-TE-PEC! A-TE-PEC! A-TE-PEC!” It was loud enough in the gymnasium to make one’s eardrums hurt. Fans screamed from the rafters, many decked out in the red and white colors representing the town of San Juan Atepec. People clapped noisemakers, twirled wooden rattles. Spectators overflowed from the bleachers onto the concrete steps and the hardwood floor. At the center of the arena, 10 men from the Oaxacan mountain towns of San Juan Atepec and Natividad took fadeaway jumpers, blocked shots,...

Oregon Co-Champion Juniper in Fort Rock, Oregon

April 10, 2025

How do you decide how big a tree is? It can’t just be height or circumference alone; it must be a weighted combination of some kind. And, of course, we want a non-destructive way to measure it; digging up the tree would defeat the purpose. A widely used system, at least in the United States, is the American Forests point system. This is defined as: circumference (in inches) + height (in feet) + one quarter the average crown spread...

Coiba Island Penal Colony in El Trapiche,...

April 10, 2025

It was known as the Alcatraz of Panama. But unlike San Francisco’s infamous prison, the Coiba Island Penal Colony didn’t just have sharks off its shoreline to instill a fear of escape. Inmates also contended with scorching jungle temperatures, intense tropical storms, outdoor prison cells, and ferocious alligators roaming the island. These harsh factors not only encouraged redemption, they also kept human activity away from the island, creating a rich natural biosphere for when the prison reformed into a...

A Surprising New Tail From Jurassic China

April 10, 2025

One hundred and fifty million years ago, the swamps of Fujian province in southeastern China teemed with life. Fossils reveal a rich Jurassic ecosystem dubbed the Zhenghe Fauna, where turtles, frogs, and fish filled the waters and feathered dinosaurs stalked or waded on long, slender legs. And flitting about in the trees, there was a tiny creature whose recent discovery has upended our understanding of when and how birds became birds. Its scientific name is Baminornis zhenghensis, a mixture...

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