Wednesday, December 28, 2011

Hong Kong - In my eyes

A cool "kewl" place to visit...
Size:Bigger than Singapore, Smaller than India (Of course!) Thinking why I am comparing with these two countries? Because one is my birth place and another is the place where I live.
Cleanliness:Some places were too clean and rich. Most of the places were dirty and the buildings were looking too old and shabby. Overall the look and feel was not bad. (As I always compared it to my two near and dear countries)
Transport:Good and well planned. MTR is comfortable and there are many ways to reach it from wherever you are. You can go by normal Bus or small 16 seater mini bus or Taxi. 16 seater mini bus or the normal bus is not fair enough in collecting money though. They ask us to tap when we get on but not when we get off. Meaning they don't calculate the amount by the distance we travel. Sometimes fair and sometimes totally unfair.
Sight Seeing places:Very well maintained and they do have the visitors as their first priority. I would definitely appreciate their service as it was commendable almost everywhere. They know how to attract people to buy their souvenirs.
Food:I can comment only about Indian Vegetarian food as the food that we tried there was vegetarian and mostly Indian. These days Indian veggy food is available almost all over the world and we did find a few restaurants there and food tasted good too. Most of the dishes available are that of north India as we could find North Indians to be a part of some percent of the HK residents. Good thing was that we got Indian Veggy food inside Disneyland eventhough it was spicy, it was tasty and good.
Language:Very few understood English.
Taxi:Taxi drivers were completely rude. May be there are exceptions not sure. whichever taxi we took, the drivers were too rude and they did speak good english. Bus drivers were rude too but they did not understand much but responded to us in English :)
Shopping Malls:Very rich malls and people in the malls looked rich too. It was completely similar to what we see in Singapore and if you ask me even more richer than Singapore malls.
Weather:Too cool from morning to Extremely cold in the night.
Stay:Hotel we chose was good and breakfast was good too. We stayed in Regal Oriental Hotel in Sa Po Road. Its not nearby any MTR but there is a 16 seater bus from the hotel which was convenient for us to travel outside.

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