Cities As I Feel It

Hong Kong

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As I walk through streets of Hong Kong, that amusement feeling [still] does not go away.

Let me tell some stories of the city of Hong Kong. Stories about adults and their childish behaves; stories of praying to goddesses of home; stories of never ending delicious foods - smells, and flavors of it.

At first glimpse you would feel that after two or twelve hours flight you have landed in the land of luxury cars and shiny windows of GUCCI, Rolex and PRADA shops, metal skyscrapers. Then it would struck you [a bit] that mixture of polarized glass and noodle shops, falling down into sea of used cardboard boxes, hiding among never ending constructions. 

You would stop at the crossroad's yellow zebra where the cross-light would be shouting louder than any red Ferrari. Most likely the first day you would be lost among the streets of... different flavors. If you're hungry, your nose would show you the winding road where streets cross each other in vertical in horizontal lines as the right one. And as the first day you still would use your abroad sim card with mobile internet already gone, there would be no google maps or GPS, thus only our  five senses of human nature would try to rescue you from labyrinths of food stalls. However, as most of us already know, not always you can trust your nose and gut when we touch the topic of delicious food. You would wonder through colors of the local market and with smile or basic sign language would try to understand what you've just eaten from the grey-haired lady. 

When tongue receptors would make a statement: 'I am confused but delighted', you would give away yourself into the hands of Asian food and its flavors. Then you'd let yourself loose the way using never ending footbridges and double-language signs, leading from the HSBC to the China bank. And exactly at that moment when you would start feeling paranoid, without oxygen and clear sky above your head, your cheeks would start to feel the breeze of the blue sea. 

And then, in front of you, you would see the water and the grass, and in the nearest coast of other side - mountains, rising through the hundreds small islands. Your would take that deep breath of what you have seen today - the first day - and it wold struck you again the feeling of amazement. 

Such metal-glassy city, where people work more than European could imagine (53 h/per week), where the shoes' brand and money is the priority in the early age of most children, where there is no more land left to build up a new building, where everything looks dirty and clean in the same second, will leave you touched with the best feelings.