Ordinary Gweilo

Just a brief rant about something that annoyed me.

I wanted to go to the cheese shop I have mentioned before, but being in that tiny minority of Gweilos who don’t know Hollywood Road like the back of my hand, I thought I could pinpoint the location using the web.  Not so fast…

The cheese shop’s website seems to have just one page (that they only update once every 3 months), though it does have an address and phone number.  OK, so let’s enter "108 Hollywood Road" into the search at ypmap.com.  Doesn’t exist, according to them.  It would be helpful if it displayed the part of Hollywood Road where it would be (if it existed), but no they don’t do that and instead it just tells you that there are no search results.  Hopeless – haven’t they ever heard of "fuzzy logic"?

There is a website for the restaurant next door, also located at this non-existent address in Hollywood Road.  This does have a map, but one that seems pretty useless to me – how can you have a map that doesn’t even show any MTR stations?  And no Chinese version, either.  What’s that all about, then?   

Cheese v.good, though.