#hk diary

Day 1 of my and foodmonsteer ‘s trip to Hong Kong. A lot of traveling, messy hair and trying to figure out where to go. 

The best things we experienced Day 1: - Got our fortunes told and it was so fun - Ate at a chinese street corner, and felt like I was in an asian comedy, sitting on the plastic chairs eating true chinese fast food - Street markets, it was alot of things and not something I'm used to from home - Visted The peak and omg the view was amazing, Plus we ate ice cream there - By chance found one of the locations runningman filmed Not as fun: - Our luggage was delayed by hours, so all sweaty and bleh - Took the wrong trams so it took forever - It was so hot in Long pants and No luggage had me endure it the entire Day (32 degrees are not for vikings)

Even before getting into K-pop, I'd always felt closer to my Korean side than my Chinese side, because we saw my mum's family more often and perhaps because my dad's side was farther removed from the homeland. However, being in Hong Kong I realized that I have more connection to that side than I'd thought, if just through the food. Eating in Cantonese restaurants was extremely familiar, because the layout of the cutlery and the proceedings were the same as I had grown up with. Hearing Cantonese around me was also comforting in a way - it's the way I've learned to differentiate between Cantonese and Mandarin, because one sounds "right" to me (like my grandma's voice) and the other does not. I also felt less like I stuck out physically, though I've also always believed I look more like my dad than my mum, and Hong Kong is much more ethnically diverse than Korea or even the part of Toronto where I live. (Hong Kong is also less formal than Korea, so I felt less like my behaviour in public marked me as an outsider.)