Over the course of the week in China it was interesting to see the difference between a Hong Kong factory and a China factory. Both are in China but the reference is to who owns/operates the factory. At a Hong Kong factory, the management speak a lot better English and are typically US educated and their production areas are typically cleaner and more efficient. At a China factory, it's takes quite a bit of translation because they barely speak any English...our hosts have to try to translate from Mandarin to Cantonese to English and the production areas are usually not as clean or efficient.
Also, I finally found an Olympics shop in Hong Kong after asking about 10 people and I have only seen one person wearing an Olympic shirt. Not much Olympic pride here in Hong Kong but people in mainland China are quite proud to be hosting it. One person (born and raised in HK) told me they might consider wearing an Olympic t-shirt with another city/country on it but never one with Beijing on it!
The ironies of all ironies took place today. Of all the things that I have eaten so far on this trip...seafood, chicken feet, duck, goose, fungus, etc...we had Pizza Hut for lunch today and my stomach has not been the same since! On another note, we ate at a great restaurant for dinner tonight over looking the laser show in downtown Hong Kong. I had seabass, served American style, just the fillet...not the entire fish, which is the traditional Chinese method.
The guy in the picture below is using a hammer to do what a jack-hammer would normally be doing as he chips away at a concrete road.
2 comments:
Thoroughly enjoyed the last few days of blogs - sounds like the excitement with the police was a classic. Pizza Hut there same as here...RRM
Pizza Hut is sort of the same but our hosts ordered something that had 1,000 Island salad dressing instead of pizza sauce...not very tasty!
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