Last night, dinner with friends at Tai Ji, the Shanghai/Northern Chinese restaurant in Wanchai. Tai Ji normally doesn’t get that busy at night, but last night they were pretty full. And what’s funny is that they’d cordoned off a section of the restaurant last night for food photos – for a menu, an ad, a magazine, who knows? So a full restaurant and some of the staff are busy working on that instead of serving customers. Even so, the food was reliably okay – the Sichuan dishes are toned down for HK tastes – and dinner for 8 (we’d brought our own wine and this place I believe charges a bargain-for-HK-restaurants HK$40 a bottle corkage fee) came out to just HK$170 per person – and we had a LOT of dishes, I lost count early on.

After dinner, over to Carnegie’s, not my normal first choice but the concensus of the group. The usual dancing-on-bar madness prevailed. At 11:30 they started announcing that people should buy drinks ASAP as the bar would be closed for 15 minutes at midnight. WTF? At 11:55 they subjected us to Europe’s “The Final Countdown,” a horrible bit of noise that has nothing to do with New Year’s Eve at all. And at midnight, “Auld Lang Syne” on bagpipes, very freaking loud.





And so we left Superman, Batman and Spiderman behind and finished the night at Amazonia.


(Gotta say, for a pocket-sized camera, the flash on the Canon G10 packs a helluva lot of punch.)

Hongkie Town
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