Postcard from... Hong Kong

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The Tsim Sha Tsui waterfront offers some of the best views of Victoria Harbour and the island’s famed skyline. It also offers pungent fried squid for HK$30 (around £2.50) and a great chance to see coachloads of Chinese mainlanders taking pictures of everything they see.

One popular photo spot is the statue of Bruce Lee, one of the city’s undisputed cultural icons, in a fighting pose from one of his martial arts films. Rather less popular, apparently, are martial arts themselves, which are “becoming lost at a more alarming rate than most people realise,” according to Hing Chao, head of the International Guoshu Association, which seeks to preserve the distinctively Chinese art form.

To that end, he told the South China Morning Post, he hopes to get Unesco to add the Hakka style of Kung Fu to its list of the world’s intangible cultural heritage items – alongside traditions such as the violin craftsmanship of Cremona, Italy, Turkish coffee culture and Brazilian Capoeira dancing.

He said he hopes all the forms of Kung Fu would follow Hakka on to the list, and is working with a local university and local Kung Fu masters to archive the hundreds of different styles using 3D motion capture technology.