Hong Kong is a pretty awesome city. It is extremely vertical and dense. The only place I can compare it to is New York City in that way. It also has a cool mixture of old and new with traditional apothecary shops mixed in with more than enough Starbucks and McDonalds. It has an overall western feel with enough people speaking English that you can pretty much get around anywhere. We've got an "Octopus" card that pretty much allows us to go anywhere and we spent the first whole day pretty much just tooling around.
The food so far has been pretty good. We've had a number of classic hong kong dishes like waffles in the shape of eggs and mysterious substance on a stick. For some reason, we haven't eaten a ton yet and have been doing a bit too much snacking on random street chicken and what not.
Last night, we went to a cool bar in the white people area of town. There was an Asian band playing the blues which I hadn't seen before. We didn't stay out too late because I think we're still getting our time adjusted.
Finally the hostel we're staying at is having a number of peculiar issues. First, our key doesn't work. This isn't your standard, your key needs to return to the front desk. This is, we don't have a key that works in the whole hostel and we have to take apart the whole lock. We've had to wait for them to get us into the room in one way or another everytime we've had to enter our room. It's somewhat annoying. Also the toilet in the common bathroom wasn't working when we got here and there's no hot water. It does have free wi-fi, which is nice. We're moving to a new one tomorrow.
Overall, I feel like Hong Kong has been a nice introduction to Asia. Today, we're going to check out the central district and maybe try to make it into Kowloon.
Talk to you later,
Ben
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