Yesterday I went to the club-ish area of Hong Kong called Lan Kwai Fong, which has a huge annual Halloween celebration. Arriving there, I was unable to tell if we had ventured into a sleazy Italian coastal town complete with mafia don and his greasy haired minions or if we had been put on one of those obnoxious Japanese game shows with screaming participants. The combination of the two was enough to realize getting hit by a taxi isn’t the worst thing in the world. We got a table at the creatively named Beer Bar and watched the crowds go by, which included
- A gang of sparkly caped Asians taking hundreds of thousands of pictures of each other while we subtly threw peanuts at them to enjoy their looks of confusion.
- Two over-zealous zombie types who literally walked around as if they were dead…for the whole night. It was ridiculous.
- Two rather large women wearing rather small fuzzy neon colored dresses and giggling the entire way up the hill. That was disturbing.
- A gang of frat guys all wearing the exact same thing: chinos and blue polos with some initials on them, straight out of Animal House.
I’m pretty sure that the 7-11 on the corner of LKF had the highest volume of any in the world last night. The place is tiny and they had 3 attendants constantly filling up the beer racks all night. It was a sight to behold, and I can only imagine what tonight will be like.
