Notes from Hong Kong, part two
At 7 on a Saturday morning, the city is tolerable. People who are awake need to be, and you can walk, instead of threading your way through people like a snake between rocks. We're staying in one of the older parts of Hong Kong island - one that's not been rebuilt as recently as the radiant towers in the main business district. The hodgepodge of
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For a guy like me, whose formative city experience was Manhattan, Hong Kong is just more of the same. True, they don't give a crap here about historic preservation*, but for the longest time, neither did New York. It took tearing down Penn Station to really get anyone's attention. At least that saved Grand Central. So the whole "do it, get it done, don't waste my time" ethos of New York is turned up one notch higher here.
The other is that while "none of this matters to me right now, because I am here to shop" is true of Causeway Bay, I think the truth of Hong Kong in general is "none of this matters to me right now, because I am here to make money".
That last is also true of New Yorkers.
*Although the big fuss over tearing down the old Star Ferry Pier in Central a few years back may mean this is changing, even here. But as ( ... )
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