Hong Kong!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ! !
If the rest f China is like Guangzhou, I seriously might reconsider my travel plans. In a nutshell, Guangzhou is poopville. It is dirty, smelly, noisy, crowded and the food hawkers often cook up something that I can smile a mile away which smells of something like fresh steaming dog pooh on a chilly Spring morning being smmered away in vinegar. nnnnn nnnnnnnm oishi so. BUT having escaped GZ this morning on the not so fast Kowloon-Canton Intercity Fast Train, (6 hours passed from when I left one hotel and arived at the other) Ive jus returned from a steamy stroll down Nathan Rd to the Star Ferry terminus at Tsim Sha Tsui, worked out how to properly take night photos afetr 5 years of owning my Canon digi camera, chowed down big mac meal, which was much nicer than the extremely dispaqpointing meali ate last night. (On Shamian Island, i ate dinneer at a restaurant specializing in Suzhou and Shanghai cusine. (they had an english menu!) i chose some dumplings and braised chicken with hot and sour sauce. The chicken actually was cooked with 10,000 peanuts and shpuld be renamed crunchy bum chicken ( i wondered as i was crunching away whether the chicken had come from one of the FOUL cages i saw the previous day at Qingping Market, whose sights and smells are eough to turn even the most carniverous beef eater vegetarian for a week. Sorry, I digress! Back to HK... I really wish Id visited this place years ago - would have given me some serious inspiration to move here - it's kinda like Tokyo but with fantastic English signage, people in official places actually SPEAKING English (hello crustopholous Osaka) and there are babes from all walks of life everywhere!!!!! If only I wouldnt be stopped by every second Indian attempting to sell me a fake Rolex (or an Indian Curry which did indeed happen) Having some trouble blogging, the blogspot domain apparently isnt liked by the esteemed powers that have included it in the Great Firewall of China..................................................