4 April 2025
Drunk guys watching rugby
Admiralty to Wan Chai
Tonight I went to Wan Chai, not to be confused with Chai Wan which is a different place further along the same subway line.
Wan Chai is apparently where the nightclubs are, I recall that being the case from the first time I was here, Lockhart road specifically. From what I can tell, they are mostly gone, and replaced with British pubs, full of old British guys watching rugby who were very drunk at 7pm.
The contrast between Lockhart Road and the next road over is high, where there are a bunch of boutiques and flower lined streets and pink coloured buildings, but that is how Hong Kong works.
Tomorrow I might actually stay in Hong Kong for the day, rather than ascend mountains on the outskirts of Hong Kong or go to another country. I shall call it, my rest day.
A giant monolith of a building, I am not not sure what it is.
Wanna buy a slave? Who gets uncomfortable when I say that? That's the idea.
The purple scam grapes are everywhere now that I know to look for them.
I do not think this is actually a typo as I do not see the Chinese nan character for south anywhere, but I bet most western tourists think it is a typo. As it turns out it has an entire lengthy wikipedia page, which reveals 'It was named in 1934 after Sir Wilfrid Thomas Southorn, the Colonial Secretary from 1925 to 1936'.
So both his first and last names suffered from bad spelling.
The Southorn playground provides a nice plateau to see the buildings behind it.
It was time for a healthy dinner, poke bowl, vegetarian version. It was expensive as the place was very hipstery and probably exists for female white office workers, but I enjoyed it anyway. If you see the QR code on the receipt, at many places when you sit down to eat in Hong Kong they give you one of these, and you scan it to order. You still pay at the register though.
Here is the fluffy area just one street over from what used to be the red light district of Hong Kong.
Wan Chai market. No matter the market there are always bras for sale, it is the one constant at every Hong Kong market.
Now for 2 almost identical photos taken from the same place. This first one is handheld 1/25 of a second at f/4 ISO 1600.
Where as for this one I rested my camera on the overpass and took a 3 second exposure at f/8 ISO 100. I actually think the above handheld one looks better.
Now to figure out what to do tomorrow, probably not much!