To celebrate our 500th issue of Hong Kong Tatler, take a look back at the editions marking the four previous centennial milestones since the magazine’s founding more than 40 years ago
Face to face
Hong Kong Tatler’s social pages have long been abuzz with the hottest happenings and this was no different in the 1980s.
The June 1985 edition takes us back to a bygone era of the region’s party scene, with what are now the Faces pages featuring celebrations of the second anniversary of the Green Parrot disco at the Hyatt Regency Macau (once managed by the late Andrew Stow of Lord Stow’s Bakery); a dinner given by Mr and Mrs Leo Lee in honour of the birthday of philanthropist and Kowloon Motor Bus founder Tang Shiu-kin; and the 17th annual ball of the American University Club and the Chinese British Return Students Association, which was held at the Regent Hotel ballroom and featured its traditional beer drinking contest as well as a performance by Cantopop superstar Elisa Chan.
Popular singers Teresa Tang and Agnes Chiang were in attendance and also took to the stage in the heat of the moment. These were wild times.