Flutterby™! : More Hong Kong

I'm staying at the Panda Hotel. The penchant for "cutesy" isn't just a Japanese thing, the safety posters in the MTR are Power Puff Girls based. The other thing that strikes me, though, is that that earnestness we associate with first generation asian immigrants isn't just an immigrant thing, in bilingual Hong Kong I walked past a shop labeled "Very Good Tailor" last night.

Food is kick-ass, and dirt cheap. I love walking down the streent and buying a wonton here, a steamed bun there, eating as I meander. "Pick the fresh seafood you want cooked" is quite common, fish, squid, shrimp and octopus in 5 gallon plastic buckets, plucked from the water and cooked on demand are all over. Sanitation probably isn't up to contemporary American standards, lots of open food by the street, guys rolling out huge amounts of dough right by the sidewalk, but it tastes so good I really don't care.

Went down to the market at Temple Street last night, blocks long bazaar flea-market sort of thing. Amazingly small wireless cameras, the voyeur thing must be really hopping over here; the porn I saw seems to have genitals fuzzed out; lots of cheap textiles and cheap electronics, some of it of decent quality. Less knock-off jewelry than I expected.

Overall, I'm having a blast, both personally and in business. Today I go talk to the Hong Kong office of a fashion line you know to video a fitting and critique session, and to discuss information flow with their IT department.