Back from HK

Arrived back from HK 2 days ago. It was... okay on the whole. Felt like I went there to do grocery shopping lol. List of what I bought in HK - supposed shopping paradise:

- 1 jacket
- 1 long sleeve top
- Body soap
- Shampoo
- Contact Lens Solution
- Pimple cream
- Bourjois silver eyeliner
- Lip Balm

Grocery shopping huh? =P


Well but there are a few highlights of the trip:

1)The Aviary in HK Park



2)The expensive Sunday dimsum lunch at Hoi King Heen, Intercontinental


Hmm but honestly, I don't think the food in HK is anything special. Maybe I didn't get to try the bestest of the best, but I guess I've been having really good Cantonese food, Hakka food in Singapore,Penang,Ipoh since young so this was really nothing mind-blowing.

3)A slight, comfortable familiarity with back home; but yet very much a sense of I'm-glad-I-stay-in-Singapore-slash-Tokyo-and-not-HK

I've always thought Cantonese to be such a pretty dialect - singsong, tonal and refined. HKers obviously showed me how wrong I was. Not just about the language, but the people too. I've never seen a kid 'fight' to race to an empty seat in front of an old woman before. Amazing really...

I'm sure HKers themselves don't think too highly of mainlanders; but for me right now, I don't see much difference between HKers and the stereotypical image of the uncultured, civic-mindedless mainlander. And perhaps even if there might be any subtleties, I don't think I'm interested enough to uncover any further.