It’s literally pouring outside, and today was a total washout. RIP to our plans to walk or cycle. Instead, it was a mad scramble for the umbrella and the hotel shuttle – pure indoor vibes only today. Main character energy today was definitely finding elite eats. Wontons are a whole mood. If you don’t know, they’re basically Chinese dumplings with a thin wrapper, stuffed with seasoned pork or chicken and prawn.
The Kennedy Town Tram? Absolute icon, no notes. Runs from North Point straight through Central and out to Kennedy Town. Lowkey gives huge electrified breakfast cereal box energy (you KNOW the one), but make it wheels. Narrow, tall, stairs built for the tiniest feet imaginable, and it jolts like crazy every time it hits cross rails or points. But somehow it just vibes its way through the absolute chaos that is Causeway Bay, Wan Chai, and Central Hong Kong — unbothered
Not a stomach bug, really — more the price of something eaten too late the night before, and only me,
A warm, rainy morning, no use for walking — which made it a day for the malls, and another round
We took the East Rail line from Sha Tin down to Hung Hom to meet old friends for dim sum
The first sight of Hong Kong’s apartment towers genuinely stops you. Arriving at night, the road from the airport runs
Walk a few blocks of Central and you are, quite literally, surrounded by the twentieth and twenty-first centuries’ most celebrated
Not every day is a highlight, and the eating days in between are their own kind of pleasure. This was
There is a version of Hong Kong that almost everyone expects. A city of soaring towers, crowded pavements, flashing neon