Showing posts with label Stanley. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Stanley. Show all posts

Wednesday, April 7, 2021

An interesting day at St. Stephan beach, Stanley, HK

No matter how many warning signs and boards have been placed to advise "no tent" on the beach.  However, no one cares about it, and no one dares to exercise this rule.  Perhaps this city or most people often abuse their freedom.  In this world, when a large no. of people do the same thing, unfortunately any wrongdoing can be "right".    Sadly 99% forgot the basic rule of freedom is to respect the others' freedom in the first place.  Furthermore, I was surrounded by families, with less than 1 foot distance.  Interesting that this beach wasn't that crowded as Repulse Bay.  Not sure if the music I played attracted them.  So I promptly changed my playlists to Chinese songs, and mainland Chinese songs.  What's more annoying, a lady of this family didn't know she was sitting on my sandals.  So it told how close they were settling down to mind.   I had to tell her about that in a cool tune.  I feel bad for my sandal as it suffered with some awful weight.  Then a kid of the other family opened the tent's side sip and played so many "hellos" to me and exhaled her "milky" aroma.  I told myself "ok you win".   I moved.  
Don't know why HK has had so many non-Chineses still staying here.  This beach, Deep Water Bay, Cheung Sha.....  are crowded with more than 50% of non-Chineses.  Why don't they listen to their mother countries' serious warnings about the "no freedom" of HK.   

 

Thursday, November 26, 2020

Monday, November 16, 2020

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Saturday, June 26, 2010

Home cooking dishes for the Rich 富豪的家常小菜

There were times I went to dinners with some rich tycoons. We went to those famous "canteens" or xxx club houses for the riches. There they asked the captain to get them some home cooking dishes (寫幾碟家常小菜). After a while, a team of waiters came in serving a big pot of shark's fins, steamed "east star" garoupa, 2-3 head abalone....etc. So the rich guy giving that order was freaked out and called the captain "do you eat all these at home everyday? I said home cooking dishes. A soup of veggie/pork. Stir fried veggie, steamed snapper...etc.". Take them out now!". So 20 min. later, they came in and serve the ordered ones. There it came something extra. The veggie/pork soup is in a shark's fin chicken soup base. Stir fried veggie with some abalone slices. The steamed snapper with middle part of Chinese golden ham and top grade Japanese "flower" mushroom. Wow the rich guy was so furious and threw all those dishes onto the window. Well the room was filled with soup, veggie, fish chunks....

Those people in that "canteen" really don't know the rich people would want something simple and basic sometimes. Off the business, some of those rich people are just ordinary people who feel like getting something that remind them of their old tough time before they get rich. Those short-sighted captains/waiters should know if they really read the mind of that rich guy, they could get more tipping than from serving shark's fins. That's also why Cathay Pacific has a rice cooker on board and serve fresh steam rice in first class, as well as steamed rice roll/congee for the breakfast. In return, the rich people enjoy so much flying on CX first class.

1/2. Went to a special place which I can't explicitly disclose it but you can find some hint on the photo. This canteen is pretty nice. Quite surprised this place serve these quality stir fried home cooking dishes. Yummy!

Monday, January 18, 2010