1. you switch to a stronger solution (disinfectant) for your contact lenses cause they’re so dirty from the pollution
2. you can find dim sum anywhere for breakfast! and 7/11 sells DIMSUM!!!
3. You avoid shops on weekends cause it’s terribly packed
4. You use an “octopus” card to do almost everything
5. You sleep with the AC on at night
6. The TV reports how badly polluted the air is everyday
7. You’re quarantined for having a cold…or was it just me?
8. Some of the written Chinese doesn’t quite make sense
9. The bubble tea cups are a lot smaller than Taiwan
10. There are alchohol disenfectant gels in every public place
11. you can get around without knowing Chinese…almost everything is English accessible…
feel free to add your two cents…of how you know when you’re in Hong Kong
8A. When the word “outlook” here means “appearance.”
HAHAHA I LOVE THIS!
so true, so true..
esp. #4
okay… i have two more…
12. You can get ’snakes’ in Chinese restaurants, not ’snacks’.
13. 5 minutes is considered ‘too slow’.
… hmm…
M.