http://hkvibes.com Hong Kong blog. Original collection of travelposts about Hong Kong. Sun, 31 Aug 2008 20:40:25 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Note: this is a guest picture from Xianlin. You too, write for hkvibes.com! Contact the hkvibes team. No ticket needed for the MTR in Shenzhen.. instead, it works with tokens. The picture above (courtesy of Xianlin) shows how the system works. You can find our latest coverage of Hong Kong's MTR ... http://hkvibes.com/2008/07/28/token-based-mtr-in-shenzhen/ Note: this is a guest post from Xianlin. You too, write for hkvibes.com! Contact the hkvibes team. Noooooo !!!!! It is not possible ! it is not real ! They speak Cantonese and it is the taste of singapore fried noodles. Yes !!!!! it is possible and it is real ! ... http://hkvibes.com/2008/07/07/some-asia-somewhere-in-europe/ It is now summertime and time for the Hong Kong blog to get a new facelift.. with cool new features added :). Here at hkvibes.com we would like to go beyond pictures and include music and movies, because Hong Kong is also all about music and movies. We would also ... http://hkvibes.com/2008/07/01/major-overhaul-on-the-hong-kong-blog/ Located in Sheung Wan, Cleverly Street is a wall named street. There you can find forex shops to convert your money in HKD or the other way round. It's a kind of fierce and direct competition between sellers: don't hesitate to ask for rates at all the shops in the ... http://hkvibes.com/2008/06/30/best-forex-shops-in-hong-kong/ This picture was taken more than one year ago in Beijing. With the arrival of the Olympic Games, Chinese people are learning English. For example, all taxi drivers in the town already know basic words and sentences so as to better communicate with foreign passengers. Although the lessons are rather ... http://hkvibes.com/2008/06/28/the-olympic-games-are-coming/ (The picture is courtesy of Wikipedia). Mark Six is a lottery style game quite popular in Hong Kong where you have to guess the 6 lucky numbers out of 49. In each draw, 7 numbers are randomly selected (including the extra number). The first prize (i.e. the 6 lucky numbers) ... http://hkvibes.com/2008/06/27/a-hong-kong-game-mark-six/ .. this is the question. I fell upon this shop in Shanghai and apparently I'm not the only one to have spotted this shop! Well they reversed the crocodile and split down the word in a more pronouncable way. But can it be considered as a brand apart? If you ... http://hkvibes.com/2008/06/26/fake-or-not-fake/ In the Chinese culture, even numbers are rather considered as feminine numbers whereas uneven numbers are considered as being masculine. Each number more or less has an associated signification, usually because of similarities in the pronunciation. Three (Cantonese: "saam") : this number is often associated with life and longevity because of ... http://hkvibes.com/2008/06/25/chinese-lucky-numbers/ This week's meal is Japanese but can also be found in Hong Kong under the name of "bah tsao yu yuan" which literally means "octopussy balls". The picture above shows the Japanese presentation style as you can find in food courts for example; but you can also find octopussy balls ... http://hkvibes.com/2008/06/24/octopussy-balls/ Contrary to Paris' MTR, in Hong Kong the whole platform is protected by glass and automated doors (ok it's also available on Paris' 14th line, but in Hong Kong it's just everywhere like that :). On this picture you don't see a lot of people and it is misleading: like ... http://hkvibes.com/2008/06/23/clean-and-spacious-mtr/