Hongky Kong Man

The 3.5 hour flight from Singapore to Hong Kong is a pretty common trip for people here. They go for gambling and shopping weekends. Drop the gambling and throw in drinking and eating and you’ve got my week. It’s pretty easy to see why people move between Hong Kong and Vancouver so easily. The water and mountains with a city sandwiched in between must be a pretty familiar site for both. I flew into Hong Kong earlier in the morning on Friday and spent the day wandering around Central checking out the sites. I finally got to see one of if not my favourite buildings up close and personal. The first stop was a trip up the Bank of China building to the 43rd floor for a view of the city. I met up with some friends and we grabbed some Shanghai style dinner and went for drinks. The next day was all about shopping. We took a trip over to Kowloon which is kind of like China town in every city in the world except it never ends. Oh yeah, I forgot, we had the best dim sum for brunch at some place near Causeway Bay. That night we ended up at LKF for a crazy night of drinking and dancing. It reminded me a lot of places here. Drinking on the streets, lots of bars jammed into the same spot, a huge expat crowd. The big difference is there are 7-11s in the neighbourhood so people tend to get their beer there and drink on the streets before heading into a bar. Some might even argue that 7-11 is the best bar in town . . . but those people are dumb.

The next day I wanted to go to Shenzhen, which is the city on the China site. It was totally different than expected and a big culture shock. It’s kind of hard to describe, so I won’t. On my last day I was flying out of Macau so got up early and took a ferry to the tiny little city. It’s a tiny little city that looks like a Mediterranean city but full of Chinese gamblers. The food is great and the casinos are easily abused by budget travels.

Click on the picture to look at some of the city photos. Hopefully I’ll have pictures from night time partying soon.

Music worth listening to from LCD Soundsystem.