{"id":110,"date":"2008-03-05T07:13:26","date_gmt":"2008-03-05T15:13:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/?p=110"},"modified":"2008-03-05T07:13:26","modified_gmt":"2008-03-05T15:13:26","slug":"curry-in-hong-kong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/curry-in-hong-kong\/","title":{"rendered":"Curry in Hong Kong"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><img class=\"colorbox-110\"  loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"1\" width=\"336\" src=\"http:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/albums\/pictures\/scaffold.jpg\" height=\"448\" \/><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Arrived in Hong Kong 5 hours ago it is 11pm here and 7am in San Francisco.\u00c2\u00a0Last time I was here was 21 years ago &#8211; think it has changed a bit since then.\u00c2\u00a0I got the train in to Hong Kong from the airport and my friend Annabelle came and found me. Today is her 29th birthday and coincidentally her friend that we are staying with here has\u00c2\u00a0his birthday today as well. We walked from the train station to the flat &#8211; I was impressed by Annabelle&#8217;s knowledge of all the little streets! Everything is so modern and then there is bamboo scaffolding &#8211; so I had to take a picture. The 14 hour flight obviously got to me! Andy (who we are staying with) says it is ironic as they make you where hard hats to walk on the rickety scaffold. Another thing that struck me is the number of westerners and also how smartly every one dresses &#8211; sharp business suits all over the place. Me in my backpacking cloths not fitting in that well\u00c2\u00a0\ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0Quick shower at the flat then off to dinner at an Indian restuarant\u00c2\u00a0with a group of ex pats from Australia and UK all here working for banks or other financial institutions.\u00c2\u00a0Last\u00c2\u00a0stop a\u00c2\u00a0bar for a glass of bubbly to celebrate birthdays and now falling into bed for some sleep.<\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0Next stop Phom Pehn.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arrived in Hong Kong 5 hours ago it is 11pm here and 7am in San Francisco.\u00c2\u00a0Last time I was here was 21 years ago &#8211; think it has changed a bit since then.\u00c2\u00a0I got the train in to Hong Kong from the airport and my friend Annabelle came and found me. Today is her 29th [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}