A Very Busy 24-Hours in Hong Kong

This was the busiest and funnest 24-hours I've had in Hong Kong!

Since classes are almost over and people will be travelling or going home soon, a big group of us (Jiesi, Brian, Crowny, Mary, Aaron, Becca and I) decided to go to LKF.


Of course, we started off the night at the good old "chut suhp yaht" (7-eleven) at LKF for some cheap drinks.




We saw a lot of other CUHK exchange students there.

Next we decided to go to a hookah bar.

By "we," I mean the rest of them, because hookah wouldn't be good for my cough. I just had a drink while the others did hookah.

Becca, Aaron and Crowny went to the bathroom upstairs and didn't come back for a long time. We were all wondering what the heck they were doing before they finally came back and showed us some of the provocative pictures they were taking upstairs because the lighting was good.

Mary, Jiesi, Brian and I decided to head up there and check it out. We took a few pictures, but we weren't as sexy as Becca and Aaron. Haha.

They finished off the hookah then walked along the streets of LKF searching for a good club to go into. Some guys were handing out flyers for Mooch, saying that girls got in for free plus two free drinks. We decided to check it out, but we took the longest time to finally go up there because they were charging a lot for the guys. Aaron flat-out refused to pay and would not back down, but Brian agreed to pay.

So Jiesi, Crowny, Mary, Brian and I went upstairs to Mooch. It was a really tiny club. Us girls got two free drinks. We danced for hours and hours, but it didn't feel like it.


Around 3 a.m., we decided to head out of the club. We saw the McDonald's that's open 24-hours, so we went in and grabbed some food. I decided to try the McPepper, because I've never seen it before in the States, and it might not be out at home.

Afterward, we took awhile trying to hail a taxi that would take us all the way back to Shatin for less than HKD$150. A lot of taxis passed us up or refused to drive that far. We should have taken the first taxi we hailed that offered HKD$150, because we ended up settling for HKD$160 after being passed up by a lot of people.

I slept in pretty late. Then I got ready for High Tea at the Peninsula with Brian, Kim and Jiesi. We got there around 4 p.m., and there was a line of people waiting to be seated. There were a lot of tourists and some wealthy locals.

We didn't have to wait too long to be seated. We ordered two trays of food and tea.

The food was delicious! The tiny slices of ham sandwich were really yummy. The bread was amazingly soft, and there was pesto mayo (I love pesto!). I also tried my first cucumber sandwiches (I always think of "The Importance of Being Earnest" when I think of cucumber sandwiches). They were equally yummy.

All the items on the tray were so good. I savored every bite of food and every sip of tea. There was also a string quartet playing songs from the balcony, which was quite enjoyable. At the end, we were given Christmas ornaments to write a wish on, which would be hung on the tree in the lobby.

Afterward, we revisited the Hong Kong Museum of Art gift store to buy some more souvenirs for people. I think everyone bought something this time. It's one of the few places with nice touristy souvenirs in Hong Kong.

We then visited Harbour City to shop at Zara. I had never heard of Zara until I came to Hong Kong, but it's sort of a classier (and a bit pricier) H&M that originates from Spain.

After we finally worked up an appetite, we went to Dan Ryan's Chicago Grill. The Harbour City location is pretty small, so we had a bit of a wait. When we were finally seated and got our order in, we realized that we weren't being treated the same as the more obvious Westerners (read: White people) were being treated. We had to ask for more muffins and bread about three times before we actually got it. That really bugged all of us. It was probably the worst service we've had at any restaurant in Hong Kong.

We finished our meal, paid the bill and left for CUHK. By the time we got back to the University KCR stop, we had already missed the last University bus that took us from the bottom of the hill to our dorms near the top of the hill. I was wearing tall wedges, but was able to walk up the hill in them.

Jiesi and I got back into Xuesi Hall and had to write our names on the same page of the late sign-in list that we had signed our names on the previous night.

And that concludes the busiest 24-hour period I've had in Hong Kong.