Mar 3 2016

The third medicine

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Aunt Jennie swears by this method to maintain a healthy body and mind. She’s been visiting this Long Electromagnetic Waves Health Center 超长电磁波保健中心 for years. The store claims it’s the third medicine natural therapy 第三医学 自然疗法. There’s TCM (traditional Chinese medicine) and the commonly known and used medicine, which Chinese call it Western medicine.

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Mar 3 2016

Northeast Cuisine 鹏城老北方酒楼

3034 Jiefang Lu, Luohu
罗湖区 解放路3034号湖北宾馆2楼(近桂园路)
0755-25890880

Aunt Jennie loves this restaurant in Shenzhen, she talked about it a lot. It’s casual, clean and delicious. I liked all the food we ordered, except, the dumplings and dumpling pancakes – I’ve them better in New York.

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Reportedly, Target is being targeted by 500,000 shoppers or people who boycott the store over their transgender bathroom policy. Ha ha ha … they should go to this restaurant – a little adventure. Male and Female are mixed in the same room. This IS a first for me, in any country, IF my memory serves me right.

Ok, here are the food for 3. Of course with left over. Long way to take them home but aunt won’t order less. There is a steak house on the same floor.

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Mar 3 2016

Shops at Shenzhen

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I’ve long heard about the shopping mall at Luohu. This one has multiple levels with not only shops but eateries as well. Vendors are not shy to solicit business. I liked a pair of shoes – similar to sneakers but the owner or sales girl was very rude and nasty. Oh well, I think the merchandises (LV, etc.) are all fake, counterfeit.

We had lunch elsewhere tho – at a northern style restaurant that needed a taxi ride.

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Mar 3 2016

Shenzhen

For historical reasons, the Cultural Revolution was one, dad never wanted to go back to China. These photos are as precious as the bond that built the railway from Guangzhou to Luohu.

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Crossing to China, from HK

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I was surprised to see that the short hop fm HK to Shenzhen is not high speed rail, which are prevalent in China now. We had lunch in and shopped.

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The Luohu Commercial City 罗湖商业城 at the Luohu Port.

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The area is huge, with a bus depot and train station, not to mention the shops.

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Mar 2 2016

Taichi in Hong Kong

太极 💪 快餐式. 这个师傅教打架 [偷笑] 不知道太极拳能挡架. 反正有一个是大脑进水的. 不多写了, 俺赶着去上课!
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Mar 2 2016

Stores on Nathan Road

My eyes are always on qipao. The jacket (left pic) looks ok but cost HK$4,000+ (about US$500+ at the rate of 7.9 )- does it really worth that much? I don’t think so. The owner acts pretty snobbish, so I didn’t even bother to try on.

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This store sells stuff from Costco

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Mar 2 2016

Re-Entry Permit 回港证

W Kowloon Office
九龙尖沙咀金巴利街二十八号

I made this reservation on February 9th effortlessly. It’s 1.1 km (15 min walk) from our hotel. Pretty good service however, it’s the wrong place to renew the document: should have been the China Travel Agency 中国旅行社.

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The China Travel Agency, known as 中旅社 is less organized. They require another set of documents. I reasoned with Dad, “Do you really want to do this?”
“Yes, I do.”
“For what purpose?”
“To go to China.”
Never mind that he never wanted to go to China in the first place.
“Dad, you have a 10-year visa to China, you know that, right?”
“Yes I know.”
“Dad, you know that if you go into China on Re-Entry Permit, you don’t have the protection of the US.”
Without thinking any further, he got up and left.


Mar 1 2016

Eaton 香港逸東酒店

380 Nathan Road, Kowloon

A relative has Genius to hotels in HK. This one 3 nights US$313.53.

The entrance is on the side street, off Nathan. The lobby is on a higher floor. The street level has a bank of elevators. It offers free tai chi class every morning 8-9am in the T Garden, which allows smoking, which can be annoying when the smokers come to fill their void. 8am in the morning! The pool is closed due to renovation, which is a huge disappointment.

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The wood panels as curtain in the room is really good, blocking out the sunlight completely. Service is decent and speedy. Some art works dot the lobby. They provide a mobile phone – yes you can take it with you while as their guest, which is a big plus. The first room they assigned us, had heavy smell of smoke. Yuck!!

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The bar

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Jan 11 2014

From the Excelsior in HKG

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Day and night from the Excelsior hotel in Causeway Bay in Hong Kong. The Star Ferry is in the background. A new park with tennis courts?

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Aug 14 2011

Hello New York!

Last day in Hong Kong, we got a blue sky dotted with white clouds. I got my swim in. This year, the club at Jennie’s complex charges HK$10 per session on weekday and $15 on weekend. In the morning, we went to 尖沙咀 Tsim Sha Tsui again. Stores open pretty late, at 11 or even 12.

I haven’t been able to reserve seats on the flight home, and the prospect isn’t sunny: only few extra leg room seats were available at additional US$100 each. I actually don’t like the extra leg room seat. On my last long flight home I got one (without paying for it, or unaware ..) and I was happy to exchange to a regular seat. When I got to the Terminal 1, I had problem to check in from the kiosk. However, the counter clerk was able to get us two separate window seats. Hmmmmmmm … I wondered how could they find seats when the chart showed none were available.
“.. there are canceled seats, such as customers on a delayed fight .. ”
Whatever or whichever.

Again, the airline, checked our carry-ons before the gate, claiming it was the requirement of the US Government. Didn’t we finished off Bin Laden?

Pump and I sat separately. After the dinner, I dosed off to sleep. When I wake up, there was only little two hours left to New York. I was happy!
We landed on time. However, the immigration was a long long wait. After we waited on line for about 10 minutes, an older Chinese woman with few kids came from behind. Pushed us aside and walked pass us. First I thought they were joining the rest of the family ahead of us. But they stopped few spots in front of us, by themselves. Then an old Chinese man did the same, joining them. Hmmmmm… the lousy line cutters. With kids in toe. Good example. When it were their turn to go to the immigration officer, and airport/immigration staff checked their passports and sent them elsewhere. They waited on the wrong line. Chinese respect their elders but what do we do when the elders don’t know how to respect themselves?