Category: Life in Hong Kong
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Last time I was in London, I didn’t swipe my card correctly and so I got charged for several “incomplete journeys”. I filled in an online form explaining what had happened, and received a refund a day or two later. Great service. Then, back in Hong Kong I went to meet my wife on an…
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Simon Jenkins, writing about the fire at Grenfell Tower, apparently thinks Hong Kong is “squalid”: Simon Jenkins has a reputation for being wrong in the vast majority of his columns. Almost everyone in Hong Kong lives in high-rise housing (for some striking photographs, take a look at Michael Wolf’s Architecture of Density). Around 30% of the…
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The MTR “train trip planner” recommends that for early and late departures from East Rail stations to the airport you should go via Hung Hom, Nam Cheong & Tsing Yi. This seems like bad advice, because it requires you to use two of the worst interchanges on the MTR: At Nam Cheong, you can stroll…
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How charmingly Viennese:
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Park & Shop are either using a random price generator, or this is some sort of weird experiment. Almost every day they have a different offer on Royal Gala Apples. Yesterday was particularly special – buy 5 apples and save 10 cents:
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BBC First (on Now TV in Hong Kong) claims to be “the home of premium drama from the BBC. Enjoy all new shows brought to you first and on demand”. So – Sherlock season 4, that would be on BBC First? Well, yes it is in other parts of Asia, but in Hong Kong you…
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From Hong Kong Free Press: MTR Airport Express to increase fares for the first time in its history in June Hong Kong’s Airport Express MTR line is set to increase fares by 10.3 percent in June – the first fee hike since it came into operation in 1998. According to a Tuesday Legislative Council document,…
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More misinformation from the MTR: “The Sha Tin to Central Link (SCL) is a strategic railway line that stretches from Tai Wai to Admiralty”. It really isn’t! What they are actually doing is linking up the Ma On Shan line and West Rail (through East Kowloon, in brown on the graphic) and extending East Rail…
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Confusing (wrong) information on the signs above the platform screen doors on the MTR’s Kwun Tong Line: You don’t change at Mong Kok to go to Tsuen Wan – for that you’ll want Prince Edward. Likewise, if you want to change to the Tsuen Wan line towards Central you should do that at Mong Kok. …
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黐線 chi1 sin3 – crazy, idiot; nuts ParknShop were selling this cheese for HK$40 (which is reasonable by Hong Kong supermarket standards). Then a few weeks later it went up to HK$88, which is definitely 黐線 chisin. Then it went back down to HK$44. Then it was HK$22, which is slightly cheaper than the regular…
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