We decided to forego breakfast since we were heading to the airport and we could eat in the business class lounge. Fortunately, the lounge was open and we were able to relax a little bit before our flight.
After arriving in Hong Kong, we took the Airport Express train into town, but unfortunately, we got our hotel info a little mixed up and ended up at the wrong hotel. However, our local manager rescued us and took us to the right location.
We then headed over to Mongkok to meet one of our sales leaders at a cafe. The cafe turned out to be a hangout for young people, which was kind of cool and the food was pretty good too. Afterwards, we went over to the office to meet with the staff in preparation for our meeting on Sunday.
With our work done for the day, we headed out to the street to roam around. We found our way to the Mongkok Computer Mall, which was packed full of people (actually, the whole city of HK is packed full of people). After going through 3 floors of the same stores, we picked up a couple small items and went back out to the street.
We came across this shopping area called “Ladies’ Street”, which carried a bunch of clothes, purses and toys. Picked up some stuff for our kids and then went looking for a place to eat. It was kind of overwhelming with all of the people and all the different shops and restaurants. It looked like Korean food was pretty popular now, but I wasn’t into going to a Korean restaurant in HK, when we could do that at home. We saw one place with a bunch of people waiting outside, which turned out to be Pizza Hut, go figure.
We did find a food court, but decided that we would rather find a restaurant to sit down. We ended up going into this local looking place and ordered some rice and noodles. The meal turned out to be disappointing, like eating at a Denny’s at home (should’ve gone with the food court).
Afterwards, we were pretty tired, even though it was still early. So we got on the subway and headed back to our hotel. At first, when we got off the subway, we were a bit lost as to which way to go to get back, but after some looking, we found our way home.
[...] I’m not going to try and do a detailed description of our trip. Emmanuel’s doing a wonderful job of that (Day 1, 2, http://philomyth.us/2007/03/07/asia-trip-0703-day-3/, 4, 5, 6, 7..) And here’s his flickr set. I’ll just blog about impressions. This was my first business trip to Asia of its kind. I can’t say that I enjoyed it as a whole. I was counting down days starting from 14. I just had to look at it as work. I woke up each day, and told myself, “It’s time to go to work”. There were some fun and interesting times to be found: company lunch with corporate Taiwan office, meeting up with relatives and the Huang’s, walking the streets with Emmanuel, some good conversations with co-workers and distributors. For being a small multi-national company (tiny by most standards), I never realized how big we were. I was amazed at all the different offices and store fronts out there. [...]
Unfortunately, we were too tired to really look for good food. We’ve been kind of disappointed food-wise in HK. Need a local to take us around. Next time.
awesome. glad you guys found your way to Ladies’ Street. That’s where I got my bag. Lots of street eats over there. Yum on the baked rice. Have fun and stay cool in HK.