Falling in love in HK

The fast fast paced city allows for diverse experiences whether you want it or not. And dating is no exception. If you live in a crowded city like HK, you lose sight of the many many people that come your way. There's no better city for speed dating haha, since you lose or get lost within the masses.

The city's super efficient transportation allows 2 people to meet anywhere, coming from almost anywhere at any time. Despite everybody's workaholic tendencies, we still make time for 8, 9, 10 or heck 11 'o clock rendezvous for dinner after work. Or even have lunch rendezvous with friends during office hours.

The integrated live-work lifestyle goes hand in hand, the people here seem to make "life balance" a mix of extended social meetings during the day, which extend to night time and results in finishing up work late into the night. I guess you just have to learn to adopt that lifestyle if you're to assimilate with local culture.

That said, falling in love in HK is no exception. You can take advantage of the city's many restaurants and meander through romantic "expat" streets in Soho. However, I'd rather fall for the many overlooked sites in Wan Chai, where the little sights of any British Colonized streets remain. From expansive dinners to super fresh and cheap seafood restaurants spilling over to the sidewalk with red and green plastic tables. You can meet, have a good time getting to know each other, and follow up with more "quick" dates until you've had enough time together.

Only a city like Hong Kong can juggle such lifestyles and still make them work. No traditional Saturday planned dates, actually, just scattered rendezvous throughout the week. So urban I have become, since I can't think of any more exciting ways to get to know someone. With the lack of a domesticated scene, the city serves as your living room and you can still take advantage of the vast mini getaways to nearby islands, or even take an hour jet to Macau, that is when the time allows!