Last week, I visited Hong Kong, Macau, and Shenzhen, so here are some random photos from the trip.
我上个礼拜去了香港、澳门和深圳。这是我照的一些照片。
I saw Mongolia for the first time from a plane!
Kublai: YAAAAYY!!!
I flew directly from New York to Hong Kong, which took around 16 hours and is the maximum possible jetlag. My plan? I’m terrible at falling asleep, so I tried to use that to my advantage. I stayed up for the whole flight (writing Lean obviously) and went 24 hours without any sleep, although my eyes hated it and started feeling like an acid burn. Upon arriving at the hotel at 8 PM Hong Kong time, I slept immediately, although I surprisingly still had some trouble falling asleep since it was morning back in New York. Basically, I concentrated all the jetlag onto the flight and the next day I was perfectly adjusted.
我终于看到了蒙古！
Kublai: YAAAAYY!!!
我直接从纽约飞到了香港，一共16个小时，最大可能的时差。我的计划？我平时经常睡不着，所以我在飞机上利用了这个才能。我总共坚持了24个小时不睡觉，虽然我的眼睛后来受不了了，感觉像在眼睛里倒了盐酸。大约香港时间晚上八点钟到了旅馆，正好马上就睡觉，但其实还有点难度因为那时候是纽约的早上。我在飞机上的确很痛苦，但到了香港之后就没有时差的问题了。
I received a warm welcome to Hong Kong in the form of a lovely typhoon. The Hong Kong Observatory rated it a 10/10, would recommend.
到了香港之后就发生了一个台风。天文台给它评了10/10。
After the typhoon, most restaurants were closed, so I had to settle for KFC. At least they had… pistachio egg tarts?
台风之后，大部分饭店都关门，所以我只好去了肯德基。还不错，至少有……开心果蛋挞？
“Weak Room” will always be my favorite, but “Cylinder Room” is definitely a close second.
“Weak Room”当然永远是最搞笑的牌子，但“Cylinder Room”也算是第二名。
I visited Macau, which surprisingly has stuff other than casinos, such as Portuguese ruins, gateball courts, and this park at night which seems sketchy but actually had quite a few people.
我后来去了澳门，发现除了赌场也有别的东西，例如葡萄牙遗址、门球场和这个黑布隆冬的公园（其实里面的人还蛮多）。
Macau is so beautiful.
澳门可真漂亮。
I saw that this restaurant’s name was written in simplified Chinese, so I went inside and sure enough the staff inside spoke Mandarin instead of Cantonese. Good for me, since I don’t know any Cantonese.
这个饭店的名字是用简体字写的，所以我就进去了，发现里面的服务人的确是说普通话而不是广东话。很好，因为我完全听不懂广东话。
Turns out Macau has statues of Guanyin too.
在澳门也有观音雕像。
Some workers deflating weird blobby things in front of an art museum in Macau.
我在澳门的一个艺术博物馆外面看到一群工人给这些奇怪的艺术品放气。
At this nice little garden, I saw two people doing dressed in kitschy pseudo-traditional costumes and obviously fake swords doing a photo shoot.
Kublai: Wait, hold up, something doesn’t seem right!
Ha yeah, this photo is actually from New York, not Asia. I just threw it in for fun.
我去了这个小园林，里面有两个穿着伪传统汉服和握着假的剑的人拍照。
Kublai: 嘿，等等，感觉不对头！
哈哈，说的很对，这张照片实际上是在纽约照的，不在亚洲。
That crazy building is the Shenzhen Civic Center.
那个奇怪的楼是深圳市民中心。
One shocking thing about Shenzhen is that most of the cars are EVs! That made the streets oddly quiet, except for the honking sounds. Even the Hong Kong airport had BYD electric cars on the tarmac.
Shenzhen definitely feels like stepping into a near-future sci-fi book where the author was confused about whether their book should be a utopia or dystopia.
我很惊讶看到深圳的车大部分都是电动车，所以深圳的马路也不吵，除了喇叭声。香港机场的停机坪上都有比亚迪电动车！
深圳感觉就像一个近未来科幻小说，但是作者不知道应该是乌托邦或者反乌托邦。
3D hologram fans at the Huaqiangbei electronics market! It looks better in person, I swear. Although… they aren’t 3D and they aren’t holograms. This market is huge and apparently even sells liquid cooling for phones, but sadly I couldn’t find it.
在华强北看到了3D全息影像風扇！嗯……其实不是3D，也不是全息图。华强北非常的大，听说还卖给手机使用的液体冷却，但可惜我没有找到。
A one-eared rabbit. Maybe Sydney the cat ate the other ear.
一只独耳兔。也许悉尼猫吃了另外一个耳朵。
Obviously the whole purpose of this trip was to buy Hong Kong anime girl soy sauce, but sadly it seems like it was only a limited edition thing for the Dragon Boat Festival. That company had a more recent set of limited edition designs for this year’s Chinese New Year, but that was also a few months ago.
However, I somehow accidentally ran into an anime convention in Shenzhen, so hence the photo of some cosplayers at a restaurant.
我这次去香港的原因当然是去买珠江桥牌的漫画少女酱油，但问题是那只是一个端午节的限量版。珠江桥牌今年春节也发布了一个新的漫画少女包装，但也已经过了好几个月。
Colorful lights at night in Shenzhen.
深圳晚上的彩虹灯。
It’s macaroni chicken soup, at a Hong Kong McDonalds!
香港麦当劳的通心粉鸡汤！