Everyone is expected to put a lot of effort into their work in HK............but that also means they can party hard too. Friday evenings may wife described me as " a caged tiger- waiting to get out" . I was the only bread winner at this point so it was all down to me. When the week finished well almost - the pressure had to be released somehow. I did three main things. 1. night out with the lads usually in Tsim Sha Tsui but most of the time away from the girlie bars.
TST was developing lots of theme 'English style pubs' - nothing on the outside of course - just a concrete stree full of cars but once inside typical London pubs and all owned by rich Chinese business men! and they stayed open until the wee hrs of the morning - no harsh opening and closing regulations as in UK.
Although UK does have its own night club scene of course - and as does HK. I have been taken to Chinese only strip clubs with our wives too at times just for a laugh but without our Chinese counterparts there would have been no way to get past the sliding peep hole in the door!!
I would say they are less sleezy as they once were during the earlier "suzy wong" era of the colony. But must admit have had no one I know sampling them these days are reporting back across the SE China Sea! I expect if you want sleaze then you can get it anywhere you may be in the world?
Friday nights of course would often spill over to 2 am saturday morning - as I recalled elsewhere to be standing on the 3/4 level of a high rise car park at that time and looking across at HK still lit up was always magical. You always needed to stop and take it in otherwise you DID forget it existed sometimes!!
and that was 365 days a year so you could get quite blase about it all!
TST was developing lots of theme 'English style pubs' - nothing on the outside of course - just a concrete stree full of cars but once inside typical London pubs and all owned by rich Chinese business men! and they stayed open until the wee hrs of the morning - no harsh opening and closing regulations as in UK.
Although UK does have its own night club scene of course - and as does HK. I have been taken to Chinese only strip clubs with our wives too at times just for a laugh but without our Chinese counterparts there would have been no way to get past the sliding peep hole in the door!!
I would say they are less sleezy as they once were during the earlier "suzy wong" era of the colony. But must admit have had no one I know sampling them these days are reporting back across the SE China Sea! I expect if you want sleaze then you can get it anywhere you may be in the world?
Friday nights of course would often spill over to 2 am saturday morning - as I recalled elsewhere to be standing on the 3/4 level of a high rise car park at that time and looking across at HK still lit up was always magical. You always needed to stop and take it in otherwise you DID forget it existed sometimes!!
and that was 365 days a year so you could get quite blase about it all!
