Continuing my thoughts on Hong Kong...the movie theatres are different too. You buy a ticket for a specific seat, which means you don't have to go to the theatre until right before the movie starts. On the downside, you have to buy your tickets usually the day before. I still like this system better though.
One thing I found weird and kind of funny in Hong Kong: when I went in a big elevator, there was a old guy sitting on a stool pressing the buttons. Apparently, that's his job. Just to press the open buttons and whatever floor the people want to go to. Amazing, the types of jobs available during the recession.
Back to the fast food topic, Hong Kong has the same fast-food restaurants as Vancouver (KFC, McDonald's, Burger King, etc.) but different culinary options. For example, at McDonald's you can buy a shrimp burger and an ice cream cone with grape syrup. They also have macaroni in soup during the mornings. At KFC, they have chicken rice and egg tarts. The egg tarts are good, by the way. I also went to this really interesting restaurant called Modern Toilet. You may have seen the pictures on Facebook. There are toilets for seats and the table legs are sinks. The food comes in mini-toilets, bathtubs, and wash basins, and the drinks come in urinals. I thought the urinals were gross, but everything else was fun. Surprisingly, their restrooms were rather ordinary.
One last thing. People in Hong Kong are very easily frustrated or irritated. On busy streets, horn honking is common. Sometimes people will hold their horns for 10 seconds and this will just provoke more people into pressing their horns. Also, if you go into a store to try clothes or shoes and don't buy anything, sometimes the employees will get mad at you for wasting their time. People there are definitely not as amiable as here in Vancouver.
Anyway, thanks for reading these long, possibly boring blogs. I will try to write blogs as often as I can.
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