Carissa learned her Cantonese name, 姬嘉麗 (Gei Ka-Lai), during her trip to Hong Kong. She was impressed by Hong Kong's clean metro system and amazing shopping malls, markets, and food courts serving huge portions at low prices. The culture is influenced by Confucian values while also being westernized. Hong Kong has a beautiful skyline and tropical climate but also shows extremes of affluence and poverty existing on the same streets. Carissa contrasts Hong Kong to mainland China, describing the latter as bigger, greyer, and more spread out.

1. Things I Learned in
Hong Kong

2. 姬嘉麗
 I learned my Cantonese name!
 Surname: Gaither - Gei
 First name: Carissa - Ka-Lai
 姬嘉麗 (Gei Ka-Lai)

3. Hong Kong is gorgeous and tropical!
Over 70° and sunny!

5. The metro system is SO clean and easy to use!

7. Just to make you drool a little bit, here’s what their
“average” mall looks like…
I’ll talk about
the food
courts a little
later. One
word to
describe them:
AMAZING

9. Street Shopping!
-Ladies Market
-Temple Street Market
-Central

10. FOOD!!!
-Fast Food – Even their fast food comes in huge
portions and is made fresh. SO good.
-Street Food – Smaller portions but costs the
equivalent of a nickel in US dollars! (I tried
seasoned tofu and horse!)
-Tea Time-
Hong Kong
LOVES milktea!
Tea time comes
with a noodle
appetizer, a
meat, and
something sweet
(I had French
toast with peanut
butter and honey.

11. The culture is really influenced by traditional
Confucian values even though it’s more
westernized than Mainland China

12. Wishing for good luck and health for the whole
family!

13. There are two extremes:
Parts that are huge, extravagant, and affluent

15. And parts that show severe poverty

16. Often they even exist on the same street

17. Then I spent a day in Mainland China

18. Everything there is bigger, greyer, and more
spread apart

20. This is where I stayed!

21. I met some amazing artists!

24. Central is so much fun! Lots of karaoke!

30. And when we weren’t having fun there was work….

31. Work

32. Work…

33. And more work

34. (we’re working so one
day we can get cars like
this)

35. Between the mountains and the city, Hong Kong
has one of the most beautiful sky lines