Thoughts about Hong Kong
AH i've arrived to my home for the next year! and its amazing! I'll tell you about it later. Here is a little critique of Hong Kong :D enjoy!
1) Observations:
Where are the benches? ... In the shopping malls? Nope, In the parks nope... try mcdonalds or KFC. That's right, looking for a place to sit after shopping for several hours has never become so difficult as it is in hong kong. You see some squaters at times and even I will degrade to squatting if my legs are tired enough, but there is a severe seating shortage in Hong Kong beware, and keep some RUB A535 in your backpack for those sore muscles.
Hmm speaking of food, if you ever go to the multi story Malls in Hong Kong (try 8 floors minimum) looking for food, I wish you luck trying to find food in the first 7 floors. Some say its been done, but I'm sceptical. My stomach was calling me one day at this mall in Hong Kong called Festival walk... right, great festival with NO food? What kind of festival is that? Well low and behold I take hold of the mall map, half in Chinese and half in English, luckily KFC has no apparent Chinese translation yet. To my horror I see that its on the 8th floor along with the rest of the food court. It takes half an hour to get up those escalators to get there. What Hong Kong has done effectively is taken the 'Fast' out of fast food, and fed it to the dogs. (*please be advised this is not an accurate description of all the mall)
KFC has been the fast food place of choice for me these past couple weeks, I think i'm spoiling myself as I am preparing to leave for the mainland on monday, which may be tommorrow depending on when I post this. But the Zinger Chicken burger which goes for 24 hong kong dollars ($3.30) canadian with soda and fries is quite the deal. Mind you my first couple times going to KFC was quite hard on my system since i've been eating steamed food fish vegatables and such, which is a forwarning for me a year from now when I get back to the greasy spoon country. (Canada)
On another note, I was thinking of going hiking on one of the mountains on Hong Kong Island. It sounded like a good idea, get some exercise, and do something else rather then shop. But not so much when you have a level 2 typhoon warning in the area. Yeah, so I can't read chinese or speak cantonese I almost ended up going hiking on a day where there was a typhoon warning. Talk about ending up as a statistic. That's how I want to go... kick the bucket... as a statistic, I'll at least be counted for something (as long as it has nothing to do with stupidity... such as hiking when there is a typhoon warning.
I also discovered the other day the shangrila of computer malls. Funny thing is that I've been to the computer mall many times before. In HK its called the Golden Computer Plaza, but in the same building is another computer mall named the Golden Computer Arcade. Before the discovery I thought the GC Arcade was the worse computer mall in HK... Now I beg to differ... how I didn't notice until the end of my trip in HK beats me but here is an illustration of what its like:
Its kinda like going to mcdonalds and only thinking that they serve desserts... Oh you mean you have hambugers too? Could you imagine someone coming up to you and telling you "I've been eating at Mcdonalds for at least a year till I realized they had anything other then deserts.
1) Observations:
Where are the benches? ... In the shopping malls? Nope, In the parks nope... try mcdonalds or KFC. That's right, looking for a place to sit after shopping for several hours has never become so difficult as it is in hong kong. You see some squaters at times and even I will degrade to squatting if my legs are tired enough, but there is a severe seating shortage in Hong Kong beware, and keep some RUB A535 in your backpack for those sore muscles.
Hmm speaking of food, if you ever go to the multi story Malls in Hong Kong (try 8 floors minimum) looking for food, I wish you luck trying to find food in the first 7 floors. Some say its been done, but I'm sceptical. My stomach was calling me one day at this mall in Hong Kong called Festival walk... right, great festival with NO food? What kind of festival is that? Well low and behold I take hold of the mall map, half in Chinese and half in English, luckily KFC has no apparent Chinese translation yet. To my horror I see that its on the 8th floor along with the rest of the food court. It takes half an hour to get up those escalators to get there. What Hong Kong has done effectively is taken the 'Fast' out of fast food, and fed it to the dogs. (*please be advised this is not an accurate description of all the mall)
KFC has been the fast food place of choice for me these past couple weeks, I think i'm spoiling myself as I am preparing to leave for the mainland on monday, which may be tommorrow depending on when I post this. But the Zinger Chicken burger which goes for 24 hong kong dollars ($3.30) canadian with soda and fries is quite the deal. Mind you my first couple times going to KFC was quite hard on my system since i've been eating steamed food fish vegatables and such, which is a forwarning for me a year from now when I get back to the greasy spoon country. (Canada)
On another note, I was thinking of going hiking on one of the mountains on Hong Kong Island. It sounded like a good idea, get some exercise, and do something else rather then shop. But not so much when you have a level 2 typhoon warning in the area. Yeah, so I can't read chinese or speak cantonese I almost ended up going hiking on a day where there was a typhoon warning. Talk about ending up as a statistic. That's how I want to go... kick the bucket... as a statistic, I'll at least be counted for something (as long as it has nothing to do with stupidity... such as hiking when there is a typhoon warning.
I also discovered the other day the shangrila of computer malls. Funny thing is that I've been to the computer mall many times before. In HK its called the Golden Computer Plaza, but in the same building is another computer mall named the Golden Computer Arcade. Before the discovery I thought the GC Arcade was the worse computer mall in HK... Now I beg to differ... how I didn't notice until the end of my trip in HK beats me but here is an illustration of what its like:
Its kinda like going to mcdonalds and only thinking that they serve desserts... Oh you mean you have hambugers too? Could you imagine someone coming up to you and telling you "I've been eating at Mcdonalds for at least a year till I realized they had anything other then deserts.
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