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Vacation in Hong Kong
| 8.30.2005
Joanne and I just landed back from visiting Hong Kong for a week. Once again, Asia keeps calling us back and back. Previously, we had visited Tokyo together which we loved. I've been to India and Bangkok which were both incredible experiences. I'd have to say that Hong Kong was just OK. Maybe it's that fact that I've been to so many other places or maybe it was just Hong Kong itself - sort of stuck between the very westernized Tokyo and the very rough Mumbai however, not quite either.
The weather was oppressive (9o+ and 100% humidity everyday) but the food was great and the hotel was one of the best I've ever been to. It's a boutique hotel designed by Philp Stark called JAI.
To plan out each day, we would crack open our books, pull out our internet articles and make an itinerary of where to sighsee, eat and shop. While the books are good for a general lay of the land, we tend to be less touristy than the books allow for. It was incredibly lucky that we found this little accordian folded guide called "LUXE Hong Kong City Guide" on our room desk. At quick glance, it looked like a cheat-sheet for things to do but as we started reading it, it was like having something custom written by a friend that has lived in Hong Kong for the last 20 years and jotted down all the hip places to check out as well as the ones to avoid.
Overall, there are only a few things to do in Hong Kong. Eating is No. 1 as the food is great, providing you like chinese. If you like shopping, this is the perfect climate for that. There are 3 categories of stores: boutiques, the poor man's GAP and malls of every type and shape. Speaking of climate, and if you don't care for the food or shoppping, you could spend (and should) most of the day trying to stay cool.
posted at 7:10 PM
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