hong kong, part 4
Part 3 Everyone told me that I had to get a suit while in Hong Kong. I had just picked up a couple of tailored suits in the States less than a year ago. So I settled on fitted shirts, taking Josh’s recommendation to visit the world-famous Sam’s Tailor in Kowloon. Manu himself greeted me, [...]
hong kong, part 3
Part 2 You can tell a lot about a city by what sort of posters go up in the subway. On the walk through Tsim Sha Tsui station, I saw several posters with attractive young people taking off eyepatches and smiling smugly at the camera. In the foreground, a smirking mandarin slipped a bulging envelope [...]
hong kong, part 2
(Part 1) Between Tsim Sha Tsui, Central and Wan Chai, about one of every forty people you pass on the street is Caucasian. If they’re not wearing a tailored suit, they’re tourists. The ratio gets even lower once you get out of downtown. I had never been to a city where I was that much [...]
hong kong, part 1
Several people asked why I wanted to visit Hong Kong and I had a hard time landing on a single reason. Part of it doubtless stems from my brief obsession with HK action movies. I worked my way through Tokyo Kid’s small catalog of John Woo / Yuen Woo Ping / Tsui Hark DVDs, supplementing [...]
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