Hostile Traveler

Pretty unevenful day today stuck in the windowless closet that we call the classroom. We escape for lunch, but other than that we’re jammed in there together like one geeky little family. Lunch itself was kind of interesting because when we walked into the restaurant, all I could think of was that it looked like a bad wedding hall. In fact, it was a bad wedding hall, and the head table was still set up with ‘Congratulatons Raymond and Lucy’ above it. I guess they don’t waste any time converting it back into a restaurant. Hmm…I wonder if they play the Chicken Dance at a Chinese wedding…

A coworker of mine from Singapore wanted to take me for traditional Cantonese food for dinner, so we headed into Mong Kok (yes, the same place as last night). I managed to snap a couple of pics without looking like a total tourist (or so I like to tell myself anyways), and you can see just how deserted the place was. Very tasteful signs you can barely notice too…

I didn’t even notice this when I took the picture, but note the white sign on the right advertising the hourly rates for the hotel. Guess they don’t make it much of a secret here.

This is the restaurant we wound up at. No idea what the name is, but it could be “Guy Cooking Random Shit In A Window”. Oh wait, that would describe 99% of the places here.

I wound up with a kind of glorified ramen dish, but it was actually pretty good. I’m sure the oil glistening on it will be rocketing out of my colon like a bullet train by the end of the night.

I haven’t seen too much Engrish here so far, which is a bit disappointing. The restaurant had a really good one next to the restroom though:

Just another Mong Kok street taken while wandering aimlessly.

….and a couple more from the Ladies’ Market, this time at night. The guy I was with was looking for ‘Potato Boy’ DVDs and was all excited about it.

Stil no sun, still overcast, still too many freaking people. But, other than that, not too bad so far.