Happy New Year!
It's been a mixture of happiness and sadness this year... here's hoping that 2005 will bring prosperity and good health to everyone.
New Year's in Hong Kong was a bit different this year. Instead of following the masses and heading for Lang Kwai Fong or Times Square, we spent the countdown in a swanky bar in Admirality.
First off we went to some really dodgy looking Japanese restaurant above a shop in these really quiet street. Walking down there were garages and warehouses either side and some locals were having a BBQ on the street. We stopped next to a Japenese storehouse full of sacks of rice, walked up these plain looking steps to be greeted by a well decorated Japanese restaurant. Apparantly this is an unlicensed restaurant, hence they cannot advertise the fact that the restaurant exists... talk about private dining or what! Happily the food was excellent, really fresh sashimi and all sorts of tasty morsels washed down by some hot sake.
Moving on the to bar ("1/5") tummies were full but eager to drink. I'd say it was a pretty international bar, not many local chinese honkies there it seemed, but quite a large Asian crowd. Quite a contrast to Club Nu the night before which was packed with underage honky wannabe gansta rappers (though Mei might not wish to remember that place so much due to her "accident" in the toilet and then passing out for most of the night).
Quite annoying my camera is playing up now. The damned thing won't stay on and intermittently (Fai taught me to use that word) turns itself off. Still, I managed to get a few sweet photos... check out imagestation in a few days.
As ever, New Year's is a bit of an anti-climax. Countdown has come and gone and it's all pretty much the same. Just need to remember to put a 5 on the end of my dates!
Sun leen fai lok!
New Year's in Hong Kong was a bit different this year. Instead of following the masses and heading for Lang Kwai Fong or Times Square, we spent the countdown in a swanky bar in Admirality.
First off we went to some really dodgy looking Japanese restaurant above a shop in these really quiet street. Walking down there were garages and warehouses either side and some locals were having a BBQ on the street. We stopped next to a Japenese storehouse full of sacks of rice, walked up these plain looking steps to be greeted by a well decorated Japanese restaurant. Apparantly this is an unlicensed restaurant, hence they cannot advertise the fact that the restaurant exists... talk about private dining or what! Happily the food was excellent, really fresh sashimi and all sorts of tasty morsels washed down by some hot sake.
Moving on the to bar ("1/5") tummies were full but eager to drink. I'd say it was a pretty international bar, not many local chinese honkies there it seemed, but quite a large Asian crowd. Quite a contrast to Club Nu the night before which was packed with underage honky wannabe gansta rappers (though Mei might not wish to remember that place so much due to her "accident" in the toilet and then passing out for most of the night).
Quite annoying my camera is playing up now. The damned thing won't stay on and intermittently (Fai taught me to use that word) turns itself off. Still, I managed to get a few sweet photos... check out imagestation in a few days.
As ever, New Year's is a bit of an anti-climax. Countdown has come and gone and it's all pretty much the same. Just need to remember to put a 5 on the end of my dates!
Sun leen fai lok!
posted by Kee at 03:33
1 Comments:
Happy New Year (again)!!! This year has so far involved a hell of a lot of dining out... already! Leaving me with little money to shop :( When u guys get back, i look forward to some home cooked Thai food, wayhey! You know ur camera, is there a power saving function that makes it switch off after a few minutes?
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