Here are some more things I hate.
Foodies.
People who think “well played” is an appropriate response.
Anybody wearing Google Glasses (this is a preemptive hate).
The manager of Schnurrbart in LKF who wouldn’t let us sit because we had a coffee even though we told him we’d...
(I always like writing Japan! with an exclamation mark because I imagine some violent comic-book Japanese schoolgirl yelling “JAPAN!” and slicing somebody’s head off with a katana.)
These are my favorite Japanese restaurants and bars in Hong Kong.
Sake Bar: SAKE BAR GINN
Sake Bar...
I love food. I think about food constantly; I eat too much food; I spend a huge amount of time scheming how to consume more food and not gain weight. My days revolve around food, meaning I go to kebab shops and watch the chicken spin around on a tray. Sometimes when somebody boring is talking to me...
Like any sane human being, I prefer flying at night. Airplane dinner is better than airplane breakfast, the cabin is dimmed like a theater and so nobody can see the drool gobs pooling on your shirt. With a little luck, you might even be able to sleep and have one of those dreams that you’re...
In my continuing efforts to turn this nightlife column into a relationship advice column, I decided to quit with the artifice and do exactly that. So this week, Yalun Tu—untrained, uncertified and unqualified*—will answer your relationship queries that he may or may not have made up...
When I flag down an available taxi and it slows down but then speeds up and drives away:
Oh man, I’m really late for work. Why did I hit the snooze button six times? Why did I watch that “Harlem Shake Compilation 22” on YouTube? It’s like three months old. The Harlem Shake...
I’m inventing a new term and assigning it to me: techno-luddite. I’m comfortable with old technologies (Blackberrys, books, low-end toasters) and tolerate some new (new iPad) but for the most part I’m wary of new things. It takes a long time for me to adapt and usually tech makes...
This year it was one directive and one only: make it through to the night. Every year I start off the Sevens pumped up, ready to live up to my HK Magazine nightlife column moniker, and every year I get too drunk too early and end up in bed both freezing and sweating. This year I was ready to buck...
It’s Yalun’s annual What To Be At The Sevens costume column. How about…
An Asian Ghost. We haven’t seen the long-haired girl from “The Ring” for a while, or that little boy from “The Grudge.” Bonus points if you can bring in an actual little boy.
A...
Recently I’ve noticed a disturbing trend of not enough people praising me for my life. This is very upsetting.
I don’t get it. I’m OK looking, I make an OK salary, I travel an OK amount, I write for a popular magazine, I’m in OK shape, and I’m OK at talking to girls....
