Part of our building is missing!

[Well, this is rather embarrassing - I forgot to hit "publish" for this post, written at the beginning of last month and only just dug it up. Enjoy.]

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[Alternative title: Foggy Days]

Apparently the British like to talk about the weather a lot. It’s also been some time since I last talked about the weather. So in order not to ruin the stereotype, I’ll talk about the weather now.

Here are just a few of the views you could have experienced in the past few weeks if you were here in HK.

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ICC – the tallest building in Hong Kong

It’s the left most building of the left most block in the picture

Headless in Stanley

Concrete warriors of Stanley:

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Trapped in a dirty mirrored cupboard:

Deliberate Misinterpretation

In Central, there’s a supermarket/delicatessen called Oliver’s. Tagline: “The delicatessen” (or something like that). It’s a pretty good place to buy all your imported goods, like coffee, any packaged and branded goods or butternut squashes for the equivalent of about 8GBP. At least.

Anyway, the last time I went in was to find some porridge oats i.e. the real stuff not the instant textureless muck that passes for porridge in most normal supermarkets in HK. They seemed to be going through a … well, the best word I can think of to describe it at the moment is “rejiggle” (any advice on a better word would be highly welcome).

This meant that there were some perfect scenarios for deliberate misinterpretation. *Cue random person taking photos in the supermarket for your enjoyment. Again*

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Photo No. 1

I agree, this one almost doesn’t count, vino is passable as organic (having been grown on vines) and natural. But still, you’d expect it to be in the “WINE” section. That and I think dried apricots and walnuts used to live there.

Moving on…

New Year…

… New Rules?

From reading other people’s blogs, the end of the year/beginning of a new one usually means I either have to sum up the year just gone … or make a list of resolutions – should I feel like joining in the spirit of things. Even if it is a few weeks too late for the solar new year. But hey! I’m in HK, we go by the lunar calendar over here. Mostly.

Christmas Displays 2011

As mentioned in the Easter display post, Shopping centres (or malls as they call them over here) like to put on displays for holidays. Here are a few photos of displays in essentially the same shopping centres - essentially, not exactly.

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1. Harbour City, TST

By the Star Ferry pier, they’ve got a HUGE Toyland themed display which blocks the walkway. Toyland is, I believe, the new section of HK Disneyland; and the locals love Disney.

View from the other side of the display. Oh yes…

Christmas Lights 2011

HK is famous for it’s permanent light show. You know the one, it’s the one you associate with HK: the island, the (tall) illuminated buildings, the flashing lights, far too many people surrounding you whilst you’re watching it and many many different camera models recording the show.

At Christmas, there are even more lights present, oh yes. Surprised?

Here are some photos I’ve taken over the past 2 months documenting the 2011 lights – mainly in TST and one from the island.

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To break you in gently, a rather tame (by HK standards) Christmas tree:

… and pretty snowflakes at The Peninsula:

A Japanese food related post…

So I haven’t been posting much these past few months as my laptop died of an update. The whole ridiculous HK work hours, and the fact that I’m slightly scared of my fixed laptop being returned to me with a Chinese OS which I won’t really understand, hasn’t really helped the matter.

Onto the post, a post of Food related photos from a trip to Japan in October no less. (Yeah, my time keeping sucks).

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For starters? A game of sorts… Real or Fake? Below you will find photos of food taken in Japan, are they real? Or plastic? Answers on a postcard please.

Bonus points if you play guess the food items too.

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No. 1