The last couple days in Hong Kong have been a bit weird. Or too normal. We went to a movie yesterday and a theme park today, so that's too normal.
We have been eating alot of chinese though so that's different. By coincidence we have had lunch twice in a couple posh restaurants. The type of restaurant where they put the napkins down for you, pull your chair for you, give you fine china and two pairs of chopsticks. But despite all the poshyness lunch for two people was only 42 dollars. Actually, that $42 sounds expensive for lunch. But have you ever been at a restaurant trying to recount how much money is still in your wallet because you might be 'in trouble'. These places give you the sense that 'you might be in trouble' so when the cheque comes and it's only $42 then it seems like a really good deal. e.g. One hostess came to my table to ask for my name so she would know how I should be addressed (Mr. Payne).
Anywhoo, we have been through many neighbourhoods in Hong Kong. We were in Mok Kong yesterday which had some really cool markets. Markets with pans of fish, still alive waiting to be bought, turtles stacked in cages, chickens available to be slaughtered, eels wriggling in buckets, frogs stacked in a big box. We didn't touch that, but there was a guy slaughtering and skinning pineapples so we bought one of those.
We also revisited the Tsim Tsia neighbourhood in Kowloon which we didn't like the first night we were there. It wasn't that bad - I think at the time it was an emotional shock and we may have taken one of the more sketchier paths there that night.
Tomorrow we are heading to Macau, which according to the Hong Kong and Macau Lonely Planet, exceeded Las Vegas last year as being the casino central of the world. There are Las Vegas hotels like Wynn, MGM and the Venetian there. We are going to stay at the Venetian because, after reflection, I figured thats where I wanted to go - I think Macau is going to be Hong Kong's vegas and the Venetion is pretty Vegas to me. Before deciding on that hotel, I tried to ask several agents at the ferry terminal which hotel currently has the best deal going - but they couldn't understand what I was asking. What I mean was, I wanted to know which hotel, say, would normally cost $1000 a night that might have a $100 a night special going on. They didn't understand what I was asking. I know it's a complicated question - but I still hoped I could get an answer.
I also had an ambition to take a helicopter from H. We were pretty close actually to booking one, but then I read the fine print.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
3 comments:
Did Kim get her India visa ok?
And btw, if you get time, the double decker bus ride to Stanly Market is interesting.
Sounds like fun.
What was the fine print? I am curious.
Kim did get her India visa. We went to the stanley market in a double decker bus by accident actually. We were trying to get to the amusement park but didn't get off at the right stop. We got off where all the other people where getting off. And this turned out to be the so called "Stanley Market". Only 20 min away from where we were going.
The fine print on the helicopter scheme is that you are only allowed to bring something like 10 pounds of baggage. I guess because it's a helicopter they don't want big bags. We asked how much our big bags would cost and they estimated that it was going to be just over $200 for our bags.
So we didn't do it. We will just need to take a helicopter when we are lighter.
Post a Comment