Category: Life in Hong Kong
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About 6 weeks in, we are now up to 100 total cases of Coronavirus in Hong Kong. We haven’t experienced any dramatic increases in cases, but neither is there any sign of it going away. The “panic buying” of rice, toilet rolls and cleaning products seems to have passed, and the supermarket shelves are full…
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Relatives booked flights to Hong Kong on a Very Famous Hong Kong Airline (VFHKA). Next we booked a package (flights and hotels), also with VFHKA – so that we could all go together to another city in Asia. Then last week VFHKA cancelled relative’s flights to Hong Kong, so we have to cancel the package. …
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Hong Kong streets and shopping centres are strangely quiet and traffic is light. Yes, we’ve been here before, but last time (just a couple of months ago) it was the protests whereas now it’s Novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV). Many local people are choosing to spend more time at home (with some employers telling staff not to…
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Marketplace by Jasons (your actual upmarket Wellcome) started stocking Sainsburys products less than three years ago (early 2017). It doesn’t seem to have been a big success. According to this link, they now only stock 10 of their fresh and frozen products, and only 100 items in total (compared with at least double that in…
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Special offer! Half a dozen eggs for HK$35.90 Or a dozen eggs for HK$62.90 Or a special offer of HK$38 for one carton. Or there’s this mysterious item: Who doesn’t love a Data Error? So good they named it twice.
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Having promised not to provide a running commentary on the Hong Kong protests, here are a few thoughts on recent developments. The latest government strategy seems to be to make life as inconvenient as possible for everyone, in the hope that this will turn people against the protestors. The MTR has been closing stations that…
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When I opened my wallet I realized that my credit card was missing. After a few moments of panic, I remembered that I must have left it inside a self-service till. Indeed I had – unfortunately it was 50 miles away in a different city (at a branch of the UK’s worst high street retailer). …
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Spike is back in Hong Kong, having been forced to retire from his job in the Philippines because of the local laws. Which was quite a surprise to him (and to most people, I guess) He had to go to the hospital: One of the Dumbest Things I’ve Ever Done I was surprised that a…
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Honest Bee, sorry that you are closing down.I placed several orders with youBut items were always missingOr the wrong item was deliveredSo, honestly, I'm not surprised My last order was for five products. They only delivered one of them. One! Then there was the time when I happened to go to the supermarket a few…
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The instructions are in English. But the touchscreen isn’t. So, that icon on the ‘pick up procedure’ with an arrow pointing up… This one: Don’t see anything like on the touchscreen. Gotta be the green one with an arrow pointing up? No. It’s the orange one with an arrow pointing down. Now, yes, since…
Ordinary Gweilo 