In less than a year when Hong Kong returns, I have arrived once.Ten years later, in the early 2010s, I went to Hong Kong again.In the summer of this year, it seems that it finally screens some places that feel worth taking children to understand and experience.Therefore, even if it is a re -traveling place, you may wish to experience it again to from the perspective of tourists, observer and father.
Memory is always the most fun and lively in the Yau Tsim still area along Nathan Road and the most lively.From the hotel room, you can see the high -rise buildings of Hong Kong Island and the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Center across the sea.After walking for a few minutes, you can pass through the Avenue of Stars, and introduce the children on the observation platform to introduce the high -rise buildings on the observation deck.
Hong Kong, which has a post -epidemic in Hong Kong, mainland tourists have come again.Because it is summer, many of them travel with their children's family.A live -broadcast mainland girl carried the Victoria Harbor, and was talking to her mobile phone: how this "city with only 7 million people" creates a miracle.Flights, high -speed rail, ferry, and land clearance have made the mainland and Hong Kong more convenient.At the airport express line in the urban area, there was only one female businessman from the mainland who talked loudly by one female businessman from the mainland: "General, great, this is really good news ..." It makes people think that mainland businessmen and touristsSome behaviors are indeed worth improving.
The dark green stars always seem to be the same, without changes.In the transaction square in Central, the business elites from the mainland were standing in the mainland to discuss Alibaba. The elevator gave us the foreigners of the British accent.A strong American atmosphere.Friends who have been doing in Hong Kong for many years have invited us to have lunch here, saying that there are unique perspectives to see Central and Tsim Sha Tsui, and also specifically pointed out the recommendation of the Hong Kong Forbidden City in the Western Kowloon.
Three years of the epidemic, friends claim that the business has not been affected much, but the investment projects in the mainland have not succeeded due to some uncertainty and discomfort of the policy.From this point of view, the mainland's business environment needs to be improved.But friends also criticized Hong Kong people's emotional exclusion of mainlanders.He believes that many industries in Hong Kong themselves relied on mainland tourists and related to the mainland, and losing a great loss of mainland visitors to themselves.Indeed, as far as I see, customers in the hotels, restaurants, and convenience stores in Tsim Sha Tsui are almost all mainland tourists except locals.
Therefore, I have to talk about the language of Hong Kong.I don't think that mainland tourists need to provoke the willingness and ability of Hong Kong restaurants to use Mandarin in Hong Kong restaurants.However, as a tourist, I really feel that tourists who do not speak Cantonese are inconvenient and troublesome in ordinary Hong Kong restaurants.Many restaurant service staff do not deliberately discriminate, but they are in both Mandarin dialogue or in English coherently, and they can't even understand the state of English.This is really difficult for people who do not speak Cantonese for non -Cantonese mother tongue.In my experience, a tea restaurant must be found to help the new immigrant clerk in Mandarin in order to explain a bit of complicated package combination and discounts.
Hong Kong's general catering service seems to be hasty and rough in my opinion.In the tea restaurant that local people love to patronize, the manager who is not accustomed to calling in Putting tries to guide us loudly in Mandarin: "Can you finish, do you finish?" It will be obtrusive and embarrassing.The amount of food in the restaurant is generally relatively small. Several restaurants do not provide a price details for details. After receiving the payment, it is not like an American restaurant. It is necessary to check the bills for nuclear and retain. It often makes people feel that the payment process is confused.Account.Service staff rarely take the initiative to pay attention to the needs of customers, except in the American clubs with complete American services.
In another restaurant, although there is a certain "service" with a certain initiative, a 10%service fee is immediately added to the bill, and the "tea fee fee" is automatically charged by the person's head as soon as possible, butPoin tea can only be said to be between tea and hot water.In the place where early tea, the green tea was put into black tea.In terms of the catering experience, I feel that ordinary Hong Kong restaurants of the same level are far from the US catering industry's attention and service level of customers;I think the tip of the United States is reasonable.
Local friends in Hong Kong said that I have not used Uber, but I accidentally discovered that Uber, which is no longer serving in China, is very easy to use in Hong Kong, and I can directly pay with related US credit cards.In fact, a few people take a taxi with Uber, which is more cost -effective than taking a taxi at the airport Express to go to the hotel.Hong Kong is not like the mainland, giving people a feeling that it is difficult to do without mobile payment.Various credit cards, savings cards, and Octopus, Cash, WeChat and Alipay, which are used for consumption payment, are all unobstructed.This is another example of the combination of Chinese and Western and tolerance.
Of course, Hong Kong is highly commercialized.If you do n’t pay more money, you ca n’t overlook the night view at the top of Taiping Mountain, because the best angle has been monopolized by the top paid tourist pavilions and various luxury restaurants.To get a good appreciation and photography perspective, you must also cross and go through countless fancy stores.The seaport pier in the Harbor City and China Port City is also surrounded by various restaurants and stores.It seems difficult to find where you want to go in a maze -like shopping mall.
Museum does not avoid history
In the Hong Kong History Museum, the statement and layout of Hong Kong's life life are lively and interesting, suitable for young people to learn.The museum objectively introduced the British to establish St. Paul Academy in 1851, and established the Hong Kong Fire Brigade in 1856. Sun Yat -sen's revolutionary activities in Hong Kong.The image and sound of former leader Zhao Ziyang.At that time, Hong Kong's return was approaching, and the Chinese flags and special district flags had been hung on the street.In the New Territories, which is far from the city, the local residents have set up a colorful and six -color archway to celebrate the 26th anniversary.
Go to Yuen Long to explore the hidden and constantly excavated neighborhood restaurants.Enthusiastic citizens, the atmosphere of grounding restaurants, and the price of the people, make people relax.My child said that he immediately thought of the village and town of the heroine of Zhou Xingchi's comedy.
I said, in the small restaurant we are looking for, the female shop owner smiled and took a large picture of his signature dish, which made me immediately think of the ""Sister Chicken.This is probably the most earthy secular Hong Kong.As usual, the online celebrity restaurant in Yuen Long did not provide free napkins, but sold three Hong Kong dollars.However, this restaurant also announced that if middle school students are wearing neatly school uniforms (probably similar to the evasion of Weilong) to eat, they can enjoy discounts, which is unusual.
We did not deliberately choose time. We missed both the Yellow Ducks that had just left Victoria Harbor, and also missed the International Dragon Boat Race that was about to be held in Victoria Harbor.When saying goodbye, I think that Hong Kong has not been "reduced to mainland cities", and its culture is still tolerant, diverse, and unique.
The author is an associate professor at the Department of History of the Academy of Academy in the United States
