(Sept 26th, Tuesday) I'm not very good at getting pics with my paternal cousins... but here is my final maternal cousin. Frank Yu. Hong Kong is the first time we've run into eachother in a LONG time. After a bit of chatting at Hong Kong Brewery, and saying goodbye (he had to get up early the next day for a meeting) we headed to Dragon-I, a fairly posh looking night/social club up at the crest of LKF. A good time was had by all. Tuesday!
(Sept. 28th, Thurs) In commeration of a one ms. Ashley Chay being in town, we headed up to SoHo and went to the Peak Cafe. Food was a so-so international fusion (nothing out of this world), decent ambiance, prices acceptable for a SoHo location. After this we skated into a place called 'Bohemian Lounge', where we found a hookah and some live jazz. It was very good. I forsee this place becoming a more common haunt... especially on nights with live music. They played us some 'girl from ipanema' and 'summer samba' no problem. After this we skated around town. Hit up a too crowded bar called Yumla, and a nice little club called 'Pi' and D'Apartment. We ran into my roomate and his pals and took over the bar.
We drank way too much outside the 7-11 afterwards...
(Sept 29th, Friday) The weekend continued with another dinner out with Miss Chay, this time at Lumiere, a restaurant located in the IFC. The style of the place is Sichuan/S.American fusion. It was delicious. and it was tres expensive. Another live musician was there, and he was quite fabulous and extremely friendly. Hey guys.. if you ever need an entertainer for a bash back home, I got his card. He was just perpetually thrilled to be alive.
Cheers!
Despite its 100USD pricetag, the bottle of Veuve failed to impart a slight buzz, not even from drinking liquid gold.
Finally, Mr. Howard McCrary. Talented pianist, singer of American jazz and lounge classics, and even capable of Mandarin! Since our table of young'uns (we were the youngest in the restaurant by far, closet to us was a table of young bankers or something, everyone else was late 20's to 50's and rolling in the dough) was worshipful of him and rapt in attention, we got a few songs dedicated to us.
Earlier that Night, Ro and eye grabbed a few restaurant books. After Lumiere, we've dedicated ourselves to 'Hong Kong's Cheap Eats' :) It's been fun, and the cause of many other adventures.
(Oct 1st, National Day, Sunday) Hong Kong doesn't go as all out as Mainland China in their celebration of the great commie revolution, but there is one night of tremendous fireworks in Victoria Harbor. Going with Ro and Shamik to some of the cheap eateries on 'Hau Fook Street' in TST (just off Carnavaron), we happened to be in town when the booms started. We were unable to get primetime seats, but it still a pretty big deal.
A shot of Victoria Harbor on a normal night.
Till next time... I still got a week to catch up!
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