Hong Kong 2014: On the Streets of Hong Kong

Hong Kong. It's the land of food and shopping. I'm sure everyone is well aware of the fact. I'm no exception. Just that, even though I've been there several times in the past, I did not pay attention to anything else much in Hong Kong besides well, food and shopping. When I was much younger and still schooling, I was focused on the shopping aspect of Hong Kong whenever I flew over. Then in my past two trips within the last five years, I was obsessed with the dining culture of Hong Kong. Luckily though, in the midst of all the pigging out I did on my last trip in 2014, I somehow managed to pay some attention to my surroundings, and capture non-food related snaps.

So there you go, a behind-my-lens POV of the bustling city.

Queen's Road Central, Hong Kong 2014

Hong Kong 2011 (2)

There's quite a bit of pictures again for this post about Hong Kong. Mostly because, like I mentioned earlier, there's just too much good food to be consumed.

Weekend dim sum

Hong Kong 2011 (1)

A side note about Japan - it was a shock to hear about the disasters that Japan is currently facing now, what with the earthquake, the tsunami and the nuclear plant explosions. It's bad enough to experience one calamity, but to be hit with a myriad of calamities all at once, man, I can't imagine how it is to be in Japan right now. I just hope that Japan can pull strong and recover from all these, and it certainly is heartwarming to hear about such stories, in view of all the depressing news about the death tolls and potential radiation harm the Japanese might be looking at. I've always want to travel to Japan and I hope to do so some time in the future...

I love traveling and if money wasn't an issue, I'd probably be flying around the globe as frequently as I could. Or perhaps, I would perhaps land a dream job of being a travel writer/photographer and be paid to do what I love - to travel and go crazy snapping photos.

I was in Hong Kong last month for a four days vacation. Now, I've been to Hong Kong countless of times before. Whenever I'm in Hong Kong, it's always a shopping vacation, where I'll spend all my time focused primarily on shopping and shopping alone. In Singapore, the Visit Hong Kong ad always recites that in Hong Kong, it's all about "买东西, 吃东西, 买东西, 吃东西" (read: buy stuff, eat stuff), but I guess I left out the eating part of the equation. However, on this trip, surprisingly, it was primarily a eating trip! Shopping was minimal and I bought considerably less stuff than what I normally do on a shopping trip. I ate and ate and ate, and wailed over how much food I had missed out on all those past trips I had made without eating the good stuff.

Hong Kong 2011