Hong Kong will be great. It will be warm and sunny and beautiful. You will go through customs to get there. It is practically a different country.
The first thing you will notice about Hong Kong is the warm weather. It will be nice. The second thing you will notice is that the gritty, narrow streets with glowing, hanging advertisements occupying all the space above street level, bustling with people at all hours of the night – the city looks like it does in the movies. You expect a John Woo style shootout to ensue at any moment. This place is cool.
The third thing you will notice is that everyone is short. Cantonese people are short. This will be especially noticeable having just come from Beijing, where everyone is tall. The fourth thing you will notice is that all these short Cantonese people speak English. Yay!
The fifth thing you will notice is that the people are much more well-dressed and put together than people on the mainland – no pajamas here. Also, there’s no spitting. Why is there no spitting? The people of Hong Kong keep their mucus to themselves? Is it a secret? No, it’s civilization. Welcome to the first world!
That night you will make your way down to the harbor for a much talked-about, nightly light-show. However, you will arrive twenty minutes late and will be unable to see it. Instead, you will wander around Kowloon. Kowloon is more active at night than it is during the day. You will visit the area’s many open-air night markets. The markets will occupy entire streets for blocks at a time. They will be enormous. The markets and the surrounding restaurants and shops will be open well into the night. You will browse clothing stores after midnight. When you go back to your hotel at 1 AM, the crowd will show no signs of waning.
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