Stuttering Toybury: Hong Kong

Hong Kong is a beautiful city but I will not go back there in a hurry.
I guess it being the first international destination I visited I was not use to the culture shock I would receive.
The food smells did not help either, after 1 day of sight seeing I was crying like a baby on the phone to my wife. I was nauseous the whole day. I am a very impatient soul and don't do well in crowds and Hong Kong is a very densely populated city. Walking down the roads I got lost from the rest of my touring group because of the amount of people walking in the roads either shopping, going out to eat or youngsters having fun.
I was looking for a Halaal restaurant about 11pm in the evening, this was quite3 nice walking that late at night in Kowloon knowing you will not be mugged. Walking down the streets I noticed many foreigners including Nigerians, even they were not as intimidating as the Bangladeshis.
I walked past this one Indian restaurant called Koh-i-Noor where a bell boy almost forced me inside when enquiring whether it was a Halaal establishment or not. I received affirmation that it was indeed a Halaal restaurant, not knowing if I would find another one I proceeded to place my order:
Tikka Chicken - HK$80
Samoosas - HK$35
Stuffed Naan - HK$25
Can of Coke - HK$25
1 Hong Kong Dollar is about R1,20

The food was served and when I saw the chicken I was in 2 minds whether I should eat it or not, it certainly did not look like the South African chicken I am accustomed to. I was very hungry and took one bite and left it and just ate the naan and moon shaped samoosas as that was more edible than the chicken.

After the meal, a friend wanted to get some of the famous fake Tag watches. these fake watches come in different grades, the grade 1 fake is as close to the real thing you can get and cost between HK$1000 and HK$4000, my friend bought 2 of about 2 grand each. The place we bought it from looked like an establishment right out of Hillbrow. We were taken through some alleyways and into a dingy little flat by a Bangladeshi and then given a catalogue with various makes and models of watches. They also wanted to sell us grade 1 ladies gucci handbags, we declined.

After walking back to the hotel I realised how scared I was sitting in that flat, sweat dripping from my brow, expecting the cops to knock the door door any minute.

The next morning we left the hotel and moved on to mainland China to a city called Shenzhen. Blog to follow.

Below are some sites of Hong Kong

View from Victoria Peak