Hong Kong

[kangarunner]

I have to do a border run and instead of going to Cambodia or Laos or some shit I want to check out HK.

One way trip from HCMC to HK is less than $100.

@Winston I think said that the people there are not friendly at all and are very materialistic. Maybe I can meet a rich single woman!

Hong Kong views look awesome.

[MrMan]

I have to do a border run and instead of going to Cambodia or Laos or some shit I want to check out HK.

One way trip from HCMC to HK is less than $100.

@Winston I think said that the people there are not friendly at all and are very materialistic. Maybe I can meet a rich single woman!

Hong Kong views look awesome.

It's a spectacular city. I flew over it once and look at it at night, and it is beautiful. Later, my employer at the time sent me there for a training and put me up in Langham Place Hotel.


My colleagues at the training were friendly and took us out to eat. I wasn't crazy about the steamed chicken, boiled cucumber and stuff at one restaurant, and the Chinese food at another was okay. A friend I knew from church in Jakarta took me out for dinner to a Hong Kong diner. He said his friends from work said why don't you take your friend some place nice, but he said this was uniquely Hong Kong food, a fusion of Chinese and western food. We got some Fuking fried rice, and he commented on how middle schoolers made jokes about that. But we also got this tomato oven-cooked chicken over rice that was incredible. I really enjoyed the food. The restaurant was not fancy, colored metal chairs, maybe a tile floor, not shabby, but not fancy. The dim sum dumplings for the breakfast buffet at the hotel were really good. I think I got some local fried rice right before I left and was no impressed.

My friend took me on a ferry to show me the lighted signs on the buildings, kind of like Time's Square in New York, but signs were up high on the buildings. We did that at night. In the day time, it is a beautiful city with large white towers jutting up out of the mountains surrounding a bay.

While I was shopping on the street, a Chinese woman asked me to go with her. She didn't seem slutty, and I was curious. She took me to an apartment that was being used to sell knock-off name brand purses. I didn't know how much purses cost so I didn't get one for my wife. She had ordered me to go with her. When I didn't buy anything, she angrily told me to come with her and escorted me away because I did not buy anything.

The girl at the fitness center didn't let me lift weights because I just had dress shoes. I told her that I did not bring athletic shoes, and said I would stay off the treadmill, but she said it wasn't allowed. I complained at the front desk and they let me work out the next day. I remember the building had a roof-top pool.

It was a pretty good trip. I went to the training, too. That was kind of lame. I remember one of the speakers for a session had not prepared, obviously, and was coming up with a bunch of junk to say off the cuff.

[kangarunner]

It's a spectacular city. I flew over it once and look at it at night, and it is beautiful. Later, my employer at the time sent me there for a training and put me up in Langham Place Hotel.


My colleagues at the training were friendly and took us out to eat. I wasn't crazy about the steamed chicken, boiled cucumber and stuff at one restaurant, and the Chinese food at another was okay. A friend I knew from church in Jakarta took me out for dinner to a Hong Kong diner. He said his friends from work said why don't you take your friend some place nice, but he said this was uniquely Hong Kong food, a fusion of Chinese and western food. We got some Fuking fried rice, and he commented on how middle schoolers made jokes about that. But we also got this tomato oven-cooked chicken over rice that was incredible. I really enjoyed the food. The restaurant was not fancy, colored metal chairs, maybe a tile floor, not shabby, but not fancy. The dim sum dumplings for the breakfast buffet at the hotel were really good. I think I got some local fried rice right before I left and was no impressed.

My friend took me on a ferry to show me the lighted signs on the buildings, kind of like Time's Square in New York, but signs were up high on the buildings. We did that at night. In the day time, it is a beautiful city with large white towers jutting up out of the mountains surrounding a bay.

While I was shopping on the street, a Chinese woman asked me to go with her. She didn't seem slutty, and I was curious. She took me to an apartment that was being used to sell knock-off name brand purses. I didn't know how much purses cost so I didn't get one for my wife. She had ordered me to go with her. When I didn't buy anything, she angrily told me to come with her and escorted me away because I did not buy anything.

The girl at the fitness center didn't let me lift weights because I just had dress shoes. I told her that I did not bring athletic shoes, and said I would stay off the treadmill, but she said it wasn't allowed. I complained at the front desk and they let me work out the next day. I remember the building had a roof-top pool.

It was a pretty good trip. I went to the training, too. That was kind of lame. I remember one of the speakers for a session had not prepared, obviously, and was coming up with a bunch of junk to say off the cuff.

@MrMan In your experience, how were the people there? I'm having second thoughts now and will probably just go to Laos or Cambodia.

[MrMan]

It's a spectacular city. I flew over it once and look at it at night, and it is beautiful. Later, my employer at the time sent me there for a training and put me up in Langham Place Hotel.


My colleagues at the training were friendly and took us out to eat. I wasn't crazy about the steamed chicken, boiled cucumber and stuff at one restaurant, and the Chinese food at another was okay. A friend I knew from church in Jakarta took me out for dinner to a Hong Kong diner. He said his friends from work said why don't you take your friend some place nice, but he said this was uniquely Hong Kong food, a fusion of Chinese and western food. We got some Fuking fried rice, and he commented on how middle schoolers made jokes about that. But we also got this tomato oven-cooked chicken over rice that was incredible. I really enjoyed the food. The restaurant was not fancy, colored metal chairs, maybe a tile floor, not shabby, but not fancy. The dim sum dumplings for the breakfast buffet at the hotel were really good. I think I got some local fried rice right before I left and was no impressed.

My friend took me on a ferry to show me the lighted signs on the buildings, kind of like Time's Square in New York, but signs were up high on the buildings. We did that at night. In the day time, it is a beautiful city with large white towers jutting up out of the mountains surrounding a bay.

While I was shopping on the street, a Chinese woman asked me to go with her. She didn't seem slutty, and I was curious. She took me to an apartment that was being used to sell knock-off name brand purses. I didn't know how much purses cost so I didn't get one for my wife. She had ordered me to go with her. When I didn't buy anything, she angrily told me to come with her and escorted me away because I did not buy anything.

The girl at the fitness center didn't let me lift weights because I just had dress shoes. I told her that I did not bring athletic shoes, and said I would stay off the treadmill, but she said it wasn't allowed. I complained at the front desk and they let me work out the next day. I remember the building had a roof-top pool.

It was a pretty good trip. I went to the training, too. That was kind of lame. I remember one of the speakers for a session had not prepared, obviously, and was coming up with a bunch of junk to say off the cuff.

@MrMan In your experience, how were the people there? I'm having second thoughts now and will probably just go to Laos or Cambodia.

I might have spent two nights there. I had work colleagues in the same field that I was in over there, from the same company. They took me and other guests out for dinner. A friend I knew from Jakarta took me out. I didn't 'cold approach' strangers. I met colleagues. So I don't have much frame of reference regarding approaching strangers. I didn't go to night clubs, etc. Not my thing, and I'm married. The people seemed okay. I remember chatting with people on buses. I didn't get a cold, "Don't look at me. I don't know you" attitude, but they didn't hug me and give me a flower lei when I landed either.

If you do go there, look up some places that serve Hong Kong diner food. That dish might have had a simple name like tomato chicken, but I am not sure of it. You could also try a ferry ride at night to see the city from the harbor. I never went up on a mountain to look down at the city. There might be some public transportation to do that. I'm not sure.

The hotel room was really nice, but small. It was sufficient for my needs, but smaller than the hotel rooms I used in Jakarta as I traveled for work, and not the kind of place I would have wanted to have the wife and kids tag along like we did when I worked in one city and she worked in a visit to relatives in Indonesia. I could see people walking around on the sidewalks until midnight. They say apartments are so small, people spend their time walking outside doing things and go home to sleep.

Overall the city seems well-ordered like a western city or Singapore, but it kind of has more of an outdoor market feel, but as dirty as some other countries, on some streets. I think there are some dirty industries around there, but I didn't see that part. I found Singapore an occasional welcome reprieve from the chaos and dirty air and filth of Jakarta (though one time I went there and the place was incredibly smoky because of an Indonesian forest fire.) But I did tire of visits to Singapore for visa runs and chose KL after a while.

If you are in wild and dirty Southeast Asia, a trip to a clean organized city that still has a foreign culture to explore might break up the trip a lot. But hotels would probably be more expensive. I don't remember eating western food in Hong Kong except on the breakfast buffet, but I would imagine you could find it, at Hong Kong prices, of course. I don't remember food being that expensive, but I didn't pay for that many of my own meals. I remember buying some fried rice for one meal that I wasn't too thrilled with.