Hong Kong, Macau, random mid-month post

Solid blog. Also, from reading your previous blog, I didn't know you were Frozen Arbiter on TL. Makes a lot of sense now.

Btw, how is the poker in Walker Hill? I was meaning to drop by there when I visited but I heard the games were pretty bad + incredi-high rake

Never been! Infact I've pretty much never played live before Macau lol

good post, must have been sick fun in macau.
i just restarted bjj again, so it was nice to read that you got your first stripe. i remember when somuchbetter told me he got the blue belt, he was supper happy

There's a good sushi place next to the Hooters in Apujeong. I forgot the name of it, but right when you walk out of the main entrance at Hooters, you turn right and walk less than one mile and keep looking to your right side and you will see a brown door (I think wooden door). Unless they added more sushi restaurants, it should be the first one you see. It'll run you $100+ for you and a date. It's nice though cuz they stick couples in these small intimate rooms.

As for the variety of food in Korea, I'm not sure what food you're looking for exactly, but there's plenty of variety there, especially in recent years. Try venturing outside of the Gangnam area on the weekends and go to other places in Seoul like Mapo and other areas, and stay off of main streets as much as possible so you can find all the better restaurants.

thoroughly enjoyed reading the blog
keep it up sir

can you speak korean pretty well?

On September 18 2012 14:32 PuertoRican wrote: There's a good sushi place next to the Hooters in Apujeong. I forgot the name of it, but right when you walk out of the main entrance at Hooters, you turn right and walk less than one mile and keep looking to your right side and you will see a brown door (I think wooden door). Unless they added more sushi restaurants, it should be the first one you see. It'll run you $100+ for you and a date. It's nice though cuz they stick couples in these small intimate rooms. As for the variety of food in Korea, I'm not sure what food you're looking for exactly, but there's plenty of variety there, especially in recent years. Try venturing outside of the Gangnam area on the weekends and go to other places in Seoul like Mapo and other areas, and stay off of main streets as much as possible so you can find all the better restaurants.

Im rarely in seoul, and i do know of a bunch of pretty good indian Italian, viet etc places where i live, but hong kong was just a looot more varied.

Like, our hotel was on a rundown sidestreet off Hennessy road, and there were a ton of those little drink/food places that you can find in korea as well. Difference is, this.place had everything from fried frogs to sweet sour pork to snails to fish to soups to geoduck... I dunno, i know there are options in Korean food, but in hk it seemed much more widespread.

Plus im probably biased in that i like chinese food more than Korean.

@aca my korean is pretty poor, got ok understanding but poor grammar and my hearing can be dodgy at times making it harder. I can get.by np tho, especially if itd in writing.

Taking pictures is overrated anyway
IMO tourism is all about maximizing your enjoyment while you are there

Fun read, I do the picture thing wrong. I take 10 + of every motive lol

What did you think of Hong Kong other than shops and food btw? I visited there two years ago and it wasn't really my city. Much too grey and worn down or something. I did like going up to Victoria Peak though and I went to see Thian Than Buddah (sp?) which was way too touristy. Only spent 2,5 day or so though, one of them spent looking for an iPhone 4 (my buddy who I was with wanted one cheaply, couldn't really find one).

You should visit Singapore if you're into good food btw. I liked the atmosphere there better and the food was also great. Had some Japanese BBQ which was awesome and there was also this great Mongolian place in the middle of the 'outgoing area' by the fountains. Night zoo was pretty good there as well.

We didn't do any sightseeing really, so didn't see the buddah even. Hong Kong hm... I think if I lived there for a while I could really love the city, but as a visitor it's overwhelming to me. My aim is to go visit a bunch of places over the course of the next year so will add Singapore to the list =)

Hehe well I will be in Bangkok and surrounding area from 11-25 October so you could visit that city sometime during that period? ^^

On September 18 2012 22:05 Spicy wrote: Taking pictures is overrated anyway IMO tourism is all about maximizing your enjoyment while you are there

This ! I was in a euro trip earlier this year with friends and I hate when ppl act "tourist". Stop pretending that you want to do everything and remember everything and have fucking fun while you're there lol.

This is why I like to travel with only 1 or 2 like minded ppl.

Nice blog !

On September 19 2012 14:44 Twisted wrote: Hehe well I will be in Bangkok and surrounding area from 11-25 October so you could visit that city sometime during that period? ^^

Hm i do wanna visit thailand but next month im gonna go visit family and get a drivers license tt

my roommate would use an alarm clock not to miss Jinro fighting them koreans live
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