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Words by webmaster: My name is Reese Lee. This website is sorta like a mandatory homework so don't expect trivial deets of everything. But I have to tell you I'm a bit of a party animal and I'm so familiar with Central cos I always have business there. BTW I can offer kinda detailed Hong Kong night life in Lan Kwai Fong cos my friends are working there.
When the curtain fell on the final act of imperial pageantry in "Honkers", with HMS Britannia sailing into the harbour and the last flourish of the Governor's ostrich-feather hat, the prophets foretold doom. They have been confounded, Hong Kong is still alive and thriving. This Asian tiger may have had some of the stuffing knocked out of it since 1997, but it is still a roaring destination. Once the theatre for a unique confrontation (or collusion) between East and West, Hong Kong now presents a similar struggle between two entirely different visions of Chinese identity. It is at once utterly Chinese and effortlessly cosmopolitan, with white, Indian and many other resident populations contradicting Beijing's visions of Chinese exclusivity at every turn. Many Hong Kongers, especially younger ones, speak good English, and almost all of them look towards Pacific horizons rather than north of the Chinese border for their values and aspirations. The mainland, as China is called, is still a foreign country for locals. Residence requirements for mainland Chinese are stricter now than they ever were under English colonial rule, and Hong Kong courts hand down draconian punishments for offending mainlanders. Hong Kong is a vision of what the rest of China could be if it opened up fully to the world, but Hong Kong prefers to focus on its own affairs rather than lead the way for China. The rule of law has suffered since the handover, but mostly through insidious erosion rather than direct assault: Beijing is content by and large to govern with a light touch, keeping itself at a distance from Hong Kong affairs, so as to sustain international confidence in the territory. Many of the worst precedents for future erosion of liberties have been set by Hong Kong's government itself, in its struggle to keep the feared rush of poor mainland fortune-seekers at bay.
In the meantime, the citizens' way of life remains unchanged; and it would be hard to imagine a less Communist place than acquisitive, thrusting, mad, dog-eat-dog Hong Kong. Cartelisation, connections and rumours of official corruption may tarnish its reputation for totally free capitalism, but Hong Kong still scores top in a global assessment of levels of economic freedom for residents.
The relentless drive of the place makes it one of the most exciting cities in Asia, even Tokyo seems sleepy in comparison. It is also the ideal hub from which to visit the rest of Pacific Asia, bang in the centre of the region and a few hours flight away from almost everywhere else. For Swiss standards of cleanliness and tedium, visitors should go to Singapore, but for breathing the air of freedom in all its rancid diversity, they can stand by the Fragrant Harbour and inhale, not forgetting to stay upwind.
"Maybe we can't offer you a strentch of crystal clear water glitters in the sun or a nice suntan, but we can make you feel our vibrancy and our determinations to attain what we want, and what you wanna get from your trip."-Webmaster.
If you come to Hong Kong and you wanna get to know our lives from different side. You gotta come to Central-our citadal. You can just simply stay on a bridge and overlook what those typical Hong Kongers are doing. Central is a small place where yet is worth spending a whole day on. We have the best hotels and shops as well as architecture in the neighbourhood. You can take MTR to Central and make your way to Exit J. Let make Exit J your node. A glamourous Bank building welcomes you when you just come out from the underground. You can take out some cash there before you occupy your hands with a bunch of shopping bags. Then you can either walk along the road to the Landmark which is a huge shopping mall or go back to the opposite side of the Bank building, where the Prince Building situated. In the Price Building, there are lumps of costume shops including Channel and Hugo Boss. For fresh food you can go to the top floor of the shopping mall by elevators. Ther are Oliver's and shops selling tourist stuff. On top of that, you can make your way straight to the Armani Building through a long tunnel with many portraits and artworks on the wall. Just make sure you don't take any lifts because they would bring you to the offices upstairs. The Armani Building is a whole piece of artwork that you know what I mean and who is G.Armani. The Armani Building is connected to a bridge which leads to the Hong Kong Station and the pier. You can just follow the signs and you would find the Landmark, Marks and Spencer, HMV, Shenghai Tan and bus stations respectively. Don't mix the bus stations under the bridge and the bus stations near the City Hall (the pier). They lead to DIFFERENT ways. The buses under the bridges mainly take you to the southern part of Hong Kong, where the beaches are located. You can both take No. 260 or No. 6 to Stanley, which No. 260 would miss the Deep Water Bay stop. I suggest you to take No. 260 if you want a quick trip to Stanley. The buses near the City Hall take you to the outskirts of Central such as the Peak, Admirality, Wanchai or Pok Fu Lam. I recommand you to the Peak after dinner cuz Hong Kong's nightview is picturesque. You can take bus No. 15, which is topless(Not that topless!) to the Peak or if you wanna take a Peak Tram....Well, you'd better ask people around how to get there cos it's really hard to explain here. I can only tell you the box office is near the St. Joseph School.It's $HK20 for a person for a Peak Tram ride. After the Peak Tram ride, you must go to Lan Kwai Fong for a couple of drinks. I'm sure you can get a holiday fling there if it is right time and right place. Here are some stuff about Lan Kwai Fong you need to know:
Lan
Kwai Fong used to be a hawkers place before the Second World War. Now it is
the most popular place for drinking and dining with a vibrant mixture of different
cultures.
Lan Kwai Fong is defined by D'Aguilar Street and the smaller lane, Lan Kwai Fong, both of them turning 90 degrees to form a rectangle. From the west side of the rectangle, Wo On Lane extends to host several more spots for drinks and quick eats. Some like to think of the area as extending to Wellington Street and Wyndham Street, all the way up to the Fringe Club. The greater area is so well known to foreigners that almost all of them would manage a visit no matter how long their stays are.
LKF, as abbreviation for Lan Kwai Fong, is not merely a place for pubs and discos. It boasts such a range of cuisine: from Italian to Mediterranean; from Japanese to Thai and of course Chinese. Everyday restaurants and clubs in Lan Kwai Fong serve thousands of local people and visitors from all over the world. There are lunch crowds flooding the little square for big ticket power lunches as well as for hearty dishes of Thai style seafood fried rice noodles (less than $50 each, without the 10%) that would be finished in minutes. Click here to see the whole list of shops in Lan Kwai Fong.
More than 20 pubs wind people down after work and give an exciting backdrop in the Eve of important holidays such as Hallowen, Christmas and New Year. On the average workday, the "standing crowd" of Oscar's holding their drinks spills out onto the street in front, creating a party atmosphere that draws yet more in... and it is this atmosphere that has come to be synonymous with Lan Kwai Fong, the place.
Click here to see a list of all other bars and restaurants in Central.
The next morning I suggest you take a minibus
No.9 to the Bowen Road and Borrett Road. The No.9 stop is just facing the garden
of City Hall. Many people take nice morning walk in the Bowen Road every morning.
Bus No.19 can also bring you to the destination. Besides, Bowen Road and Borrett
Road, you can take minibus No. 22 to Pok Fu Lam (Or bus No.23). I always think
Pok Fu Lam is a cute place with labyrinthine street and stuff. You can see many
distinctive buildings which were built in the colonial era. For Instance, the
King's College and the Hong Kong University. After the morning walk you can
go straight back to Pacific Place in Admirality which is a large shopping mall
with a food square. There are always exhibitions in the mall and it's good to
have a coffee there as well. You can visit the Hong Kong Park where just take
you a few minutes to get there through two flights of elevators at the top story
of Pacific Place. After a tranquil walk you can cruise your way back to Central
through a bridge which joint Hong Kong Park and Marray Building.
The "City of Life" lives by night: most hot in-town venues don't even get going until midnight, and the pace at night is more frantic than by day. Enterprising Sinophiles can try to get invited along to a local karaoke evening and warble into a mike over buckets of beer to Cantonese pop videos. Others seeking ex-pat drinking at its most intense should head for Lan Kwai Fong, a tiny area of Central with a vast concentration of bars and restaurants. Soho ("South of Hollywood Road") is a slightly more chic and relaxed concentration of leisure spots just off the Mid-Levels escalator. Chinese locals tend to favour Tsim Sha Tsui, riddled with bars and clubs. And anyone seeking such things will be pleased to hear that they can get all the action they want in the girlie bars and joints of Wan Chai, destination of many a poor Filipina or Thai peasant maiden. Despite the ludicrously strict noise restrictions on open-air events, proof that well-connected residents can swing huge clout with city hall, live music is also hugely popular and well catered for. Check the free listings in BC Magazine and HK Magazine for the latest details, as well as `for updates on raves, which average at least one per weekend.
Bars: Escalator riders can rub elbows congenially with prominent ex-pats and a good few Hong Kongers in the friendly wood-and-marble bar The Bayou, 9-13 Shelley Street. Margarita addicts should try Coyote, 114-120 Lockhart Road, in Wan Chai; nearby, the Horse and Groom, 161 Lockhart Road, gets a solid Cantonese drinking crowd despite its cod Brit fittings. Definitely the most popular venue in Lan Kwai Fong, Insomnia, 38-44 D'Aguilar Street, creates an air of quality with its stonework and Florentine-style loggia, then promptly contradicts it with Filipina girl bands and relentless disco. Post97, 9 Lan Kwai Fong, is comfortable and serene after the madness outside. Over in Kowloon, Rick's Caf?/I>, 4 Hart Avenue, has some of the longest queues on Saturday night, which must count for something.
Casinos: Hong Kong does not have any casionos; instead they are all a 50-minute jetfoil ride away in Macau, which is famous as a gambler's paradise. Jetfoils run all night just to service the Chinese love of gambling. Macau boasts nine casinos in all, with dress code ranging from smart casual to formal; passports should always be carried. The best casinos include the Hotel Lisboa and Casino, 2-4 Avenida de Lisboa, Macao City, the Mandarin Oriental Macao, 956-1110 Avenida da Amizade, Macao City, and the Hyatt Regency and Taipa Island Resort, 2 Estrat Almirante Amrquesa, Taipa Island.
Clubs: Hong Kong clubs are almost invariably cramped, but the DJ action can be world class. For constantly changing multi-storey action in Central, fall through a hole in the wall and shoot up in the lift for CE Top, 37-43 Cochrane Street; check the flyers in the hall for the night's theme on each level. The faint of heart should avoid Joe Bananas, 23 Luard Road, pick-up joint par excellence and venue for cheesy model nights, where leggy Suzie Wongs stalk fat cats in three-piece suits. Vying for the "So unhip it hurts" crown are Club 97, 9 Lan Kwai Fong, and Red Rock, 57-59 Wyndham Street. Star East, G/F, Bank of America Tower, 12 Harcourt Road, is Central's current favourite trance/progressive house zone. Ing, 4f, Renaissance Harbour View, 1 Harbour Road, is a slightly classier, duller version for Cantonese teenyboppers.
Live music: What passes for stadium rock in Hong Kong is usually found at HITEC or the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre, 1 Expo Drive. Filipina live bands from brilliant to unbearable swarm across Hong Kong Dusk Till Dawn, 76 Jaffe Road, has some of the best, while its strongest nearby competitor is The Wanch, 54 Jaffe Road. The Jazz Club, 34-36 D'Aguilar Street, plays far more than just that.
If Hong Kong is the "City of Life", then life is a mall. Some speculate that Hong Kongers need to shop to escape their cramped dwellings; others simply ascribe the shopping mania to disposable income and greed. The large numbers of missionary churches around town may owe their business to guilt at the universal habit of shopping right through Sunday. The prime shopping areas are bedlam at weekends, and merely chaotic during the rest of the week.
For many of the items that it was once famous: electronics, imitation brand-names etc, Hong Kong is just no longer as cheap as it was, and prices are closer to European or American averages. Shops selling Chinese art objects and souvenirs cluster around the escalator up to the Mid-Levels; however anyone planning to visit mainland China should do their research here but save their purchases for north of the border. Within Hong Kong, Shanghai Tang, right by Central MTR station, is probably the best venue for quality Chinese goods: silks, fabrics, ornaments and furniture. Hong Kong's temples to Mammon are plentiful: Pacific Place in Admiralty has three floors of almost entirely luxury brands, while The Landmark and Prince's Arcade vie for the custom of chic Central. Festival Walk at Kowloon Tong MTR station in northern Kowloon is worth the long trip from Central for its variety and quality. Causeway Bay has the big Japanese department stores Sogo and Mitsukoshi, and the overwhelming Times Square, like a mall stood vertically.
There are computer superstores at Causeway Bay, Wanchai and Mongkok, full of tiny booths selling the cyber equivalent of Hong Kong tailory and teenage hustlers pushing pirated software; however, for most electrical goods, there are worse places than the many branches of the Fortress chain.
Standard opening hours are 0930-1900 Monday to Sunday, the shopping never stops.
Hong Kongers bridle at the very idea of a sales tax, so visitors can forget
about hoarding their receipts.
Say Goodbye
"Slow down cos you move too fast, close your eyes and let the day go past. Feeling the summer breeze brushing your hair, let the wave take away your care. I'm feeling good today, just listen to the what the flowers say. See if the cool wind carry your dream, serenating you in the sunbeam."
Listen
up, I definitely think every tourist should go to Stanley or Cheung Chau (Take
ferry in Central)~for a breezy vocation within the blending of Chinese and Western
culture. And to sum up all the stuff, I make ya a one-day journal in Hong Kong.
Click here.
And I really gotta go for my own vocation now............I gotta go back to England with my dad Jon Lee and my mum Tina Barrett and my little sister Teeny Lee. By the way click here for some links.
"You're working too hard, too many hours on the job, and you know you must get better than that. You're killing yourself, and missing youe love, it's been weeks since you've been out with your friends (or your love).We all need to change that in a while....the time to need to change is RIGHT NOW!"Book a hotel in HK at discount rate via internet now!http://www.hotelschina.net/?refid=10119
Reese Lee, 18/9/2003
A Big Thank You To TravelChinaGuide.com and Corbis.com for info, photos and stuff.
E-mail me at rachiro_hk@yahoo.com.hk
