Thursday, June 01, 2006

Hong Kong Highlights: Day 4

Visited Tsuen Wan today with dear. Dear showed me this nice shop that sells Japanese cold noodles mixed with ingredients of our choice. Very tasty! We also visited the video arcade and to my surprise, there was this horse racing simulator. And nope, you don't ride on the horse, but you bet money on which horse wins. Apparently this is a very popular game machine in the Hong Kong arcades. The minature horse models were actually moving and racing one another in this minature horse racing track. The people betting money were also quite serious. Didn't dare to take photos and videos of it in fear of being beaten up by them if they lose. Anyway, dear and i went about our shopping spree as usual, but i didn't have much HK money left. Just something I noticed about Hong Kong, it's really hard to find a good money changer. Been trying to find one ever since i reached Hong Kong. However so far those that i have encountered exchange at pretty unreasonable rates. The rate i exchanged in Singapore was S$1==HK$4.86, but over here in Hong Kong the rates vary from HK$4.09 to HK$4.5. Couldn't exchange in the banks too as most of them require us to have an account with them first. Didn't spend much today as a result. Well, it's the country's loss if i didn't spend.

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