comprehensive food section, etiquette & cultural tips easy-to-use pronunciation guide sections include phrases for finding accommodation & for hitting the town useful suggestions for health needs & emergencies extensive two-way dictionary & user-friendly sentence builder Cantonese is spoken in Hong Kong, Macau and parts of south east China, particularly Guangdong Province. It's also spoken in migrant communities throughout the world in 2004 travel and tourism in Hong Kong is forecast to see growth of 10.2 per cent and Macau is forecast to have 15.9 per cent growth. (WTTC report 2004) people eat long noodles on their birthday so they may have a long life Chinese lucky numbers are 2, 3, 6, 8 and 9. Unlucky numbers are 1, 4 and 7 (4 and 7 sound like the Chinese word for death) songbirds are favourite pets in many Chinese households and are bought for their singing abilities. People in Hong Kong walk their songbirds and take them with them to the teahouses