Ordinary Gweilo
It's not big and it's not clever, it's just a Brit in Hong Kong writing (mainly) about Hong Kong
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Month: Dec 2019
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In the early weeks of the protests, damage generally got cleared up very quickly so everything could return to normal. MTR stations re-opened the next morning and services ran normally. Damaged traffic lights were repaired within a few hours. By September, things had changed. The MTR started closing stations near to protests (both planned as…
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Marketplace by Jasons (your actual upmarket Wellcome) started stocking Sainsburys products less than three years ago (early 2017). It doesn’t seem to have been a big success. According to this link, they now only stock 10 of their fresh and frozen products, and only 100 items in total (compared with at least double that in…
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Special offer! Half a dozen eggs for HK$35.90 Or a dozen eggs for HK$62.90 Or a special offer of HK$38 for one carton. Or there’s this mysterious item: Who doesn’t love a Data Error? So good they named it twice.