{"id":411,"date":"2015-05-28T11:45:57","date_gmt":"2015-05-28T03:45:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spacious.hk\/en\/blog\/?p=411"},"modified":"2023-11-02T12:02:23","modified_gmt":"2023-11-02T04:02:23","slug":"10-weird-things-about-hong-kong-that-freak-out-foreigners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spacious.hk\/en\/blog\/10-weird-things-about-hong-kong-that-freak-out-foreigners","title":{"rendered":"10 Weird Things About Hong Kong that FREAK OUT Foreigners"},"content":{"rendered":"

1. Hong Kong\u00a0women will\u00a0pay 4800HKD (615USD) to meet foreign men<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Speed<\/a><\/p>\n

And… the event was full!<\/p>\n

Apparently white privilege is still a big thing in Hong Kong. If you ever walk around Central<\/a>, Soho<\/a> or Wanchai<\/a>, all you see are white guys hanging out with asian girls. Click here<\/a>\u00a0for more details on this case. Or see this documentary<\/a>\u00a0on racial problems in Hong Kong.<\/p>\n

2. Deadly air\u00a0pollution leading to fake backdrop of Hong Kong\u00a0skyline for tourists<\/h4>\n

\"fake<\/a><\/p>\n

Take note in case you’re expecting this:<\/p>\n

\"hong<\/a><\/p>\n

3. Hong Kong people love eating chicken feet<\/strong><\/p>\n

It looks like this:<\/p>\n

\"chicken<\/a><\/p>\n

or this:<\/p>\n

\"chicken<\/a><\/p>\n

4. Ridiculous license plates<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"license<\/a><\/p>\n

If Playboy is not weird enough, check out this Pikachu, which is not a Pokemon, but a $4 million dollar Ferrari 360.<\/p>\n

\"hong<\/a><\/p>\n

5. Weird English names. What? Never Wong?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Other common weird names:\u00a0Orange, Cherry, Apple, Happy, Angel…<\/p>\n

I’m not kidding. They’re really common: Orange Man, Cherry Wong, Apple Chan, Happy Lee, Angel Yip… Make sure you don’t laugh out loud when you hear “I’m Orange Man. Nice to meet you.”<\/p>\n

6. Spoken\u00a0Chinese written in\u00a0English<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"chinese<\/a><\/p>\n

Hong Kong people\u00a0obviously speak Chinese (Cantonese), yet will write Cantonese in English. When two Hongkongers meet, they speak in Cantonese. Then they write emails and text messages in English. And some people even type Chinese in English or a mix of Chinese and English (sing k? ng ho la. next time sin la). Locals on Hong Kong Island tend to be more westernised, but locals in Mong Kok<\/a> and Tsim Sha Tsui<\/a> tend to be speak, write and text in Cantonese only!<\/p>\n

And even during presentation, Hongkongers make their Powerpoint slides in English and present in Chinese. Weird use of language.<\/p>\n

7. They have security\u00a0guards everywhere<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"security-guards-in-hong-kong\"<\/a><\/p>\n

There’re security\u00a0guards in almost all buildings in Hong Kong. And a lot of them are in their 50s.<\/p>\n

For college students, take note: you’re not allowed to bring guests to your dorm room after 11pm in most student dorms in Hong Kong. That means you have to find somewhere else to stay, even after you pick up a\u00a0cute\u00a0date after a\u00a0night out.<\/p>\n

8.\u00a0No eating or drinking on the metro<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"no<\/a><\/p>\n

You CANNOT eat or drink on the metro in Hong Kong (MTR). And people really take it seriously. Even if you just want to eat a chocolate bar or drink your remaining bottle of Coke, people’ll stare at you. And if you’re unlucky, you’ll even get fined. Yes, seriously! It’s very different from New York City.<\/p>\n

9. An umbrella is not used for the rain, but the SUN!<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"umbrella<\/a><\/p>\n

Girls in Hong Kong always have an umbrella in their bag in the summer. And they carry it not for the rain (although it rains crazily in Hong Kong in the summer), but for the sun because they do not want to tan. Having pale white skin is a sign of beauty in Hong Kong.<\/p>\n

10.\u00a0Old ladies pushing trolley<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"An-hunched-old-lady-pushes-her-cart-of-recyclables-hongkong\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\"old-ladies-pushing-recyclables-in-hong-kong\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\"hong_kong_poor_ladies-pushing-recyclables\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Hong Kong\u00a0observes the\u00a0highest income inequality in the world. Behind the stunning skyscrapers you can find loads of old ladies collecting\u00a0recyclables in the trash can and pushing their carts along a busy road, earning less than 50 HKD (around 6.5 USD) per day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

1. Hong Kong\u00a0women will\u00a0pay 4800HKD (615USD) to meet foreign men And… the event was full! Apparently white privilege is still a big thing in Hong Kong. If you ever walk around Central, Soho or Wanchai, all you see are white guys hanging out with asian girls. Click here\u00a0for more details on this case. Or see this documentary\u00a0on racial problems in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1780,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[64],"class_list":["post-411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hong-kong-living","tag-article"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spacious.hk\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spacious.hk\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spacious.hk\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spacious.hk\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spacious.hk\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.spacious.hk\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spacious.hk\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spacious.hk\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spacious.hk\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spacious.hk\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}