The alternative expense on Lan Kwai Fong
The creation of bars must have been an invention of the West. In the traditional Chinese culture, we drink whenever, wherever, however. And mixing drink sure isn’t our specialty either. We go hardcore brewing rice wine with snakes, lizards, and rats swimming in it for years (Those are known for improving health and good for your body, it is part of the Chinese medicine which older generation may still drink regularly. You may see some on display in front of a Chinese herbal medicine clinic/store). And of course in the multi-culture land of Hong Kong, Lan Kwai Fong served its purpose of serving its Westerners. The whole street is dedicated to trendy bars with local but mostly foreigners. The atmosphere is decent but with occasional obnoxious drunkies. When I go bars, I usually prefer to be the obnoxious one. This time when I went with my New Yorkers, this other group beat us (I wanna know how the hell did that happened even when I was with all New Yorkers too…). With less than a foot of space between our table and theirs, it’s just hard not to bump into anyone especially when you’re already impaired by the not so happy hour drink (but the happy hour drink sign is still up outside). Music from our bar was blasting to compete with the bars left, right, and across from it. After chucking my not so happy overpriced draft beer and then finishing my friend’s Sex on the Beach just to get our money worth, we bounced before I make someone bounce out the invisible glass that separate one bar from another. The smart thing that we should have done, go to Seven Eleven down the block, get our own beer, sit on the steps and enjoy the scenery.
