Hong Kong Designer - Diary

Took a quick snapshot whilst in a taxi of a Tile Company in HK called Euronate.

I was interested to read this BBC Article about hotels catering for the Sex Trade.
I’ve been to Zhuhai a few times and stayed in the hotels over there, and yes it’s true the hotels seem to be setup for sex. For example, in one hotel we stayed at there were stacks of condoms in the […]

Back in 2004, whilst thinking of how to word this entry, I get the notion that if I lived in China full-time my blog would be so much more interesting. Hong Kong on the otherhand is very Westernised and there isn’t too much to write about except for the odd Comedy Shop Sign (i.e. Dick […]

Back in 2003, I went to the Forum Restaurant. It was an expensive place which is located in Causeway Bay and has a speciality for Abalone’s.
Inside you’ll find the restaurant decorated with paintings, jade sculptures and plaques of Yeung Koon Yat, the owner and “World Master of Culinary Arts 2002″.
We found the food to be […]

In 2004, we went to a Chinese Wedding yesterday, great experience. There was about 200+ people in a banquet hall, most of which I think were family and we just ate and drank. We gave the married couple a red envelope which had 5 pounds from each of us, which should of covered the cost […]

I watched a Taiwan “real-life” programmme yesterday which secretly films partners who cheat and ended up shocked by the out-come. I’ve watched this weekly program a few times and although I don’t understand anything they are saying, I get a pretty good idea as to what’s going on (i.e. viewing the on screen punch-ups when […]

Actually this was my first Diary entry back in September 2003, so I thought I’d update it as I’ll be posting more often on the site.
The is my first entry into my Diary/Journal/Blog - what ever it’s called! My name’s Giles, another Brit living in Hong Kong - oh no!
I needed a change from my […]