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Posted by roger52 20 yrs ago
Ionce saw a cat , rat and a bird in the same cage and the rat and bird were playing with the cat who was fully awake

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Claire 20 yrs ago
Hmmm...


The orderly queues to pay respects at the Cenotaph after Tiannamen.


The young girl who defied her mother and walked to a rubbish bin to throw away her tissue. (Okay, not amazing but surprising.)


The bank runs, the cake shop runs and the long queues outside McDonald's for its soft toys.


To name but only a few...

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Burgundy 20 yrs ago
1. The view on a clear day from the top of Needle Hill.



2. My last boss (a multi-millionnaire) refusing to leave a taxi until the driver gave him change out of a 20 for a HK$19.20 fare.


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LostnShanghai 20 yrs ago
I wouldn't say I have the most amazing story to tell, but I've certainly met many interesting people and witnessed a few odd things.


There's this homeless guy, vagabond of SOHO under the Escalator.


He's often half-naked, save a pair of shorts. He was giggling to himself and then started fondling himself all over. He would stop and then think of something and start giggling again. I just stood there watching him while others wiggled their way out of his way in suspicion.


If I had more guts, I would have asked what he found so funny.


It'll be very interesting indeed.


And the real estate market here never ceases to amaze me with its discrepancy between quality and price.

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quite contrary 20 yrs ago
'Grey van man' eating with chopsticks out of a polystyrene lunchbox whilst driving, the amount of poeple who drive through roadwork red lights,inside the kitchens of local restaurants, a mother slapping her daughter hard around the face in a shoe shop.....Hong kong is an amazing place.

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Kaat 20 yrs ago
A girl of about 4 years old, asleep (and squished) in her mother's shopping trolley (the metal ones that chinese people take with them for grocery shopping) at the bus stop.

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GEES 20 yrs ago
I hadn't been here long and I walked into a bar I think called The China Jump. There was two BA Air Hostesses lying on the bar with their hands handcuffed to the beer taps with sqirty cream all over them (they were dressed), and the barmen licking it off!!!! The barmen wore bracers and they had dozens of flight attendent badges attached to the bracers of all their conquests! Only Hong Kong! Great bar!

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hortons 20 yrs ago
on a boat trip, south china sea, the chef packing the garbage bags, folding carboard neatly, squashing cans and arranging bits of other rubbish to fit. takes about 20 minutes, ties a knot in the bag and HAULS IT OVERBOARD!!!!!

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oj 20 yrs ago
1. Seeing old people going about their daily existance collecting paper and cans for pittance.

2. Partners squeezing each others pimples on the MTR, or worse still, in a queue for food.

3. The fact that so many different nationalities and ethnic backgrounds can get together at the 7's and there (very rarely) be a fight. In England, if you did the same with different football team fans there would be a riot, not to mention a stabbing or two (shame to say).

4. The fact that you can move here and pursue your dream or take on a job that you would never ever contamplate in your home city and be fantastic and successful at it.

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LostnShanghai 20 yrs ago
-I'm still seeing pre-Handover, colonial attitudes. Obsequious service to Westerners and rude service to locals or others perceived as locals.


-Seeing a woman at the Foreign Correspondents' Club waxing. Granted, she was probably a journalist writing an article on cosmetics, but come on.

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Claire 20 yrs ago
The Walled City. Now that was amazing! Never went there while it was occupied but the tour around it when it was empty was still quite amazing.

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roger52 20 yrs ago
The Walled City with the services that it provided, dentists, hairdressers, 70 year prostitutes.I walked through it once, very low ceilings , cables everywhere.

No local policemen to be seen as it was not under Hong kongs jurisdiction by virtue of still being part of China

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hongkonglil 20 yrs ago
My mother took me into the walled city with her in the 70s, she helped out in there with an aid agency I think it was the red cross - amazing place. Highlights of Hong Kong? Being invited to feed my new baby in a tiny flat in Chungking Mansions. He was crying in the curryhouse and the waiter took me up some flights of stairs to meet his family.....toothless gran, little kids etc. All made me feel welcome and no language needed.........incredible hospitality

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dimac4 20 yrs ago
Some of the car accidents never cease to amaze us - they are always a puzzle to figure out how the cars involved ended up the way they did.


Service Station attendants waving at you to come to their pump - excited to see you!!





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D-Man 20 yrs ago
hmmmmm......my mirror...lol...

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JoDV 20 yrs ago
Nearly every morning in Central I see the bicycles with the baskets of skinned chickens riding around, and outside some restauants I see the meat just placed at the front door on the street, waiting for the staff to come and collect it - after living here a few years I still can't help wonder what the bicyle riders would do if a chickens fell out of the basket.... yummy!!

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dimac4 20 yrs ago
Probably just pick it up and put it back into the baskets - as a truck driver hauling pig carcasses around did when one fell off the side of the open sided unairconditioned truck - stopped picked it up and threw it back into the truck with the others.


I was behind it watching incredulously!

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C 20 yrs ago
Rush hour on the Queensway crawling past Admiralty towards Wan Chai, a taxi driver coming from the airport actually stopped his car, got out, and went back about 30 ft to retrieve some luggage that had fallen out of his trunk.

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riverman 20 yrs ago
Just past rush hour on the Island Eastern Corridor, somewhere near Quarry Bay, headed toward town. A taxi was stopped in the middle lane, driver's door open, and the driver was running full speed down the highway (on foot) about 100 meters ahead of his parked cab. There was no one on foot in front of him, so he wasn't chasing anyone. For the rest of my life, I will wonder what THAT was about.

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Burgundy 20 yrs ago
On a TV channel that is purportedly aimed at the neurologically normal:



"The XYZ time check was brought to you by.... XYZ".

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kittie 20 yrs ago
The erection of a windowless building on a site that has arguably the best views in the whole city. (The Cultural Centre, in TST)


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hongkonglil 20 yrs ago
Looking out the window and realising that the long, hot, dry summers were really not THAT bad, and please can we have some more..........Great hearing family in Manchester saying what brilliant weather they're having!

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talllatte 20 yrs ago
It was about 7:00 am and I was in a taxi going through wanchai and me and the driver saw the Citybus that toppled over up the flyover ramp. 1998??


A few months back, one of those school mini-buses had taken the wrong roundabout exit and had decided to reverse back down the slip road and back onto the roundabout. It's near the TKO landfill so there were a lot of HGV lorries whizzing by. All the kids thought it was funny as they had their faces pressed up against the back window watching the lorries beeping and swerving to avoid them. I couldn't bear to watch.





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RA 20 yrs ago
The most amazing thing for me would be the 'queue' system in HK. People wait in line patiently for everything it may be a 3 person line for a bus,a 50 odd people line to enter a store where a sale is going on or a day long line for free stuff (rice, mahjong sets, caps etc.)


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dimac4 20 yrs ago
Ah yes - I remember seeing on the news a warning for people not to drop their old ovens and refrigerators out of the windows of their apartments because they may fall on someone.....

That was amazing!

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hongkonglil 20 yrs ago
That's right, in the '70s we had a tv ad telling you not to throw your television out of the window. Large green inflatable Lap Sap Cheungs were a common sight too.

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talllatte 20 yrs ago
I do love visiting people who are in run-down factory buildings in places like Kwun Tong, Kwai Chung etc and having a look at what other companies on that floor are doing. It's quite amazing to see what people produce here and export all over the world.



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Burgundy 20 yrs ago
Few countries want foreigners "introduced" to their history and culture.


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charliee 20 yrs ago
domestic helper watering outside plants in heavy rain....

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quite contrary 20 yrs ago
Domestic helper washing the car in the pouring rain.....

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jflooking 20 yrs ago
[quote='rossbear']

For me it would be a very early morning back a few years ago.....actually it was probably in the early nineties. I was going for my morning jog, and on this occasion was heading towards the Governor's residence. In the distance, as I approached, I saw a few young errrr females. As I got closer, I saw more and more. They were everywhere......on the ground, walking around, listening to radios, doing their makeup....all the things that girls do....there were about 100 of them.


I heard on the radio later that morning that Cathay Pacific cabin crew were on strike, and that some of the young ladies were camped outside the Governor's residence waiting to present him with a petition.


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Well, if it was Sunday on that day I would not be surprised if those were Philipino nannies enjoying their day off.


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sunshineband 20 yrs ago
An old Chinese man sat on a fire hydrant in the middle of ( a very busy!) Queens Road Central, picking his toes with his keys!

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Jellebee 20 yrs ago
'Pedestrian jams'! Ever tried walking along Queens Road Central (or anywhere in Central for that matter) at lunch time on a working day?

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coquinne 20 yrs ago
this is not amazing but rather unforgettable scene:


I was seated on the train between a man and an elderly couple, the lone man started to feel like emptying his throat and asked for a tissue from me w/c I didn't have, then the elderly couple offered him one and took it, upon seeing there's more to be offered he gave back the used tissue, imagine the horror on the couples' faces! I left my seat as I couldn't stop myself I might burst into laughter, poor lady she was being nice for once!

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