Hong Kong has many ethnically Chinese people…but it’s hardly Chinese as a I know it…which made it great. Last week was one of those weeks where my health was a bit down and my tolerance for anything Chinese was at an all-time low. It’s like I saved all my “China-days” for Christmas week.
Bad health, especially when it’s aggravated by pollution (which is a by-product of everything that’s wrong here) makes you crave the western world in ways that are to describe. It also turns you into a major bigot who secretly wishes that an obnoxious mainlander would try to shove his way past you in line just so you could throw an elbow into his nose. We refer to this as “wanting to tee someone up”. No, I wouldn’t actually hit anyone but the fantasy sure seems to help.
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