2023 was the year of revenge travel and reunions for me! I did a lot of stuff inside Hong Kong, too, including events I held as an official Girl Gone International host.
Archives for December 2023
Noche Buena Hotpot @ Coucou
For Christmas eve, my friend Beulah invited me to hotpot noche buena at Coucou with her boyfriend Pax and his sister Pamela, who were both on vacation here. We enjoyed the food and the conversation. We then to Beulah’s flat for Christmas salubong. We drank wine with gold flakes, played a couple rounds of Exploding […]
Kes in HK: Pacific Place
My friend Kes was on vacation in Hong Kong with her family and in-laws, but she found time to meet up with me on Christmas eve afternoon. We went to Pacific Place because she wanted to check out Goyard, and it worked for me because it’s walking distance from my place. After shopping and taking […]
Gotta Wear More Clothes
It’s once again cold in Hong Kong, and I realize I have very little experience with cold weather, even after having spent 4 winters here. Winters here do not involve snow, but the humidity here makes it colder. That means, 10 degrees celsius here is colder than 10 degrees in drier countries. This morning I […]
Pinoy Christmas Party 2023
Our Christmas party was held at our friend Beulah’s flat. We ordered Filipino food from Bedanas and The Fat Kusina. We thought TFK’s food were all delicious, especially the palabok. We ordered way too much and had to “Sharon” (from the lyrics “balutin mo ako…”) or take home a lot of leftovers at the end […]
Lu LuWan Shanghai Private Kitchen
This week we had our office quarterly event at a Shanghai private kitchen called Lu LuWan. The food was delicious, though I would have preferred if the pasta was not cold noodles.
Santacon Hong Kong 2023
On December 9, Saturday, I joined Santacon, an annual pub crawl in which people dressed in Santa Claus costumes or as other Christmas characters parade in several cities around the world. There were several meetup points which they posted on the Facebook page. I joined them at Staunton’s Wine Bar & Cafe in Central. We […]
The Peninsula Afternoon Tea on the Harbour
On Sunday, I joined some ladies on The Peninsula Afternoon Tea aboard the World Star Ferry and we ended up having so much fun! I expected just your standard afternoon tea in a prim and proper environment, but did not know that there would be a band on the boat. They played some lively tunes […]
The Holiday @ The Grounds
I watched the movie The Holiday on The Grounds outdoor cinema with my friends May, Beulah, and Ashley. We chose comfy seats (not the basic one), ordered food to be delivered to our pod, and settled down to watch the classic Christmas movie with headphones on – we needed this because the Clockenflap music festival […]