Just Amleth

Friday, March 11, 2005

Thick clothing?

On the streets, many Hong Kongers wear extremely thick clothing, so thick that you would be forgiven for thinking they were living in sub-zero weather conditions. As a matter of fact, it proved to be a warm night, with temperatures hitting 23 degrees Celcius. Methinks the Hong Kongers are using the "cold" weather as an excuse to dress up in winter clothing. Don't they feel warm in there? It's time for them to stop being so vain!

The smog in Hong Kong today is especially bad. The sky was a perpetually grayish brown and I was barely able to see Kowloon across the sea. I wonder how Hong Kongers can live with this quality of air almost everyday. Surely the hospitals would be filled with lung cancer patients?

Went to Lan Kwai Fong with Johnny just now, and we wanted to check out a restaurant (that supposedly won many awards) called "M at the Fringe". The food seemed reasonably priced at about HKD 200 per head. After getting into the restaurant, we realized that we were the only Chinese people there. A man of Caucasian descent greeted us and told us we had to wait for about an hour before we could get seats. Do I detect a hint of you-know-what?

Did I mention that Dim Sum (??) in Hong Kong is very cheap? We had Dim Sum for lunch today, and the three of us (Johnny, the sales lady and myself) ate until we could eat no more. All this for just HKD 135! That works out to only SGD 9 per person.

Temperatures on Saturday night will fall below 10 degrees. I look forward to the cool weather.