Hong Kong.....a little too long

Second piece of very good advice....do not fly half way around the world with a hangover from hell. Just saying.

I have to leave for work a couple hours before the flight actually leaves. First I have to ride the train to the airport. Fortunately, I managed to find an empty bag in my suitcase that was previously intended for a present but I used it to scare people from sitting next to me on the train. O.k, maybe it was because I was sweating and beginning to hiccup in a threatening manner while holding the bag close to my face. None the less, I found this to be very effective in getting a whole train car to myself.

Next, I have to sit in a pre-flight meeting. I did manage to make it through that but then bolted for the door looking in all directions for the nearest garbage bucket. I made it as far as the elevator in front of my managers office before I needed to hold my mouth shut with my hand. O.k, all better. Off to work.

Let's not talk about work.

Off to Hong Kong. Great city. Settle by the British, this is a very easy Asian city to get around. They all speak great English, the subway is easy to navigate and you can pronounce all the street names! Yeah! Even better, this is a very sleepy city. If your a tourist to this city, don't even bother leaving your hotel room till around 11am. Just plan on staying out late. Nothing opens till later and the city is in full gear well into the night. My favorite Asian city hands down!

Not realizing this, I headed into the city around 9am. Walked around for a long time before I decided I was hungry. Being pretty sick of noodles already, I started looking for hot solid foods. Got to love pictures menus on the wall of restaurants. I headed right for one with lots of pictures.....which....end up being lots of pictures of pigeon done 10 different ways. Yikes. Although, this explais why I watched a man kidnap a pigeon in Union Square of San Francisco. O.k, next restaurant I see, I'm going in no matter what. I will bloom where I'm planted. I turn the corner and like a beacon of light I see a larger poster of "Budweiser" in front of me. This place can't be wrong.

I go inside and about 15 tin tables surround me with 1 person at two of the tables. I order a beer ....... I know what your thinking...I have drinking problems. I think...you should shut up. I show the waiter two pictures of dishes and I ask him which he would choose, to which he responds, "no English". To which I respond, "O si, bueno" Apparently I think the Hong Kong native either speaks English or Spanish. I choose the noodles. You would have given up too. The beer helped.

Anyway, before long my food comes. Halfway through my meal I start to notice my surroundings. Apparently, I was supposed to put my chop sticks in a glass and fill the glass with the pitcher beside it (looked like ice tea), stir my chop sticks in it and throw out the contents into the bowl beside it. Ooooops. I didn't clean my chop sticks. Yikes again. Oh....wait...some people drank the "ice tea". What?!?! I'm so confused. Apparently, this a guys only place. Apparently, they don't have toilet paper in the bathroom which is why it ended up on my table? Hmmmm.