The original intent of today was just to get electronics and follow it up tomorrow with some clothes. Fortunately, we managed to get both of them mostly done in one day in the Mong Kok area (and all the varied stands that have sprouted up around there). We were up and at ‘em by around 9 AM, at which point most of Hong Kong seemed to still be sleeping (based on the paucity of open stores). Li and I bought some pants in the morning and ate breakfast at a random Chinese place and lunch again at some other Chinese place. At the first place, they brought out our food with chopsticks and we began to eat, but our waitress still went to retrieve a fork and knife for me. When she came back and saw me eating with chopsticks, she laughed a bit and headed off. That place served very fatty cuts of beef so I only ate the rice while the second place served a dish of veggies so I ate that. My stomach was still queasy from some food before Hong Kong so we tried to keep it simple. In the afternoon we got Li a DS Lite and an R4 (preloaded with games!) for a total of about HK$1000 and I got a Canon Powershot SX200IS for about HK$2600 plus HK$400 worth of a memory card and a screen protector (which didn’t last very long!). I may have gotten ripped off on the warranty, however (always check to make sure it is international, even if they tell you it is!). We made several smaller purchases of fobby t-shirts and sunglasses and some boba and eventually found our way back to our guesthouse. After a quick break, we headed back out and went to Wan Chai to see the market from Deus Ex. I’ve now seen all of the real places in that game except Area 51 and Vandenberg Air Force Base. Unfortunately, the market looked nothing like the game so we snapped a few pics, ate a dragonfruit, and left. On the way back to the hostel, we picked up a few wall scrolls (I got a big one with a tiger to hang over my bed). Back to the hostel one last time to get changed for going to Lan Kwai Fong and going to bars. We went to Stormies, home of a pretty old expat crowd, and I had a pint of Carlsberg beer and a Long Island while Li had a cider. For me, that came out to be HK$130. At the advice of our bartender Khe and some random British drunk, we headed over to The Cavern. There we just had some random mixed drinks (rum and coke, vodka and orange juice) and struck up a conversation with the random mainland Chinese businessmen sitting next to us. They told us that the wait staff couldn’t speak Cantonese, which was surpising, and that they were on vacation a company named Ming Quan Composite Material Co. They invited us to go back and drink with them but Li was pretty tired. I was too. All this time, however, we managed to successfully avoid paying any attention to the group of cute girls who were sitting next to us and giving flirtatious looks for about an hour. All the while we got to listen to a lame live rendition of Alicia Keyes. We headed down to the bayside again to take some pics of the lights with my new camera, but by this time some of the lights had been switched off (including the Bank of China building). Seeing all the couples out there together made me a little sad. Anyway, we headed back to our hostel to get some sleep. Li stayed up for a while to work on med school applications and apparently the Hong Kong police (who I’d seen hanging around the ChungKing mansions earlier) knocked on our door, announced themselves, and asked to see our passports, as someone was apparently overstaying their visa. I don’t remember any of this as I was out cold.