Some people have been asking what it is like to live in HK on a day to day basis so I thought I’d share our Easter. Not the most exciting Easter in the history of the world but we enjoyed it.

HK people had the Thursday off for the Ching Ming festival. It’s the day where you are suppose to go and tend to your ancestors’ graves.

Conveniently, we have no dead ancestors buried in HK so it was more of a day off for us. We decided to fill the weekend with some household chores as even though I’m a full-time housewife / person looking for work / tai-tai (though I don’t strictly meet the criteria for a tai-tai!) at the moment, there is always something else to do around the home proving the old adage that a woman’s work is never done.

To that end, Thursday and Friday we mainly hung around home, did some cooking and visited friends and neighbours. We ate a lot of hot cross buns which had been surprisingly difficult to find.

Saturday saw us at the Stanley Markets under the false belief that not many people would be there given that it was Easter Saturday. A billion trillion people packed in and all we wanted was a tablecloth. We arrived starving and walked down the waterfront which is populated by restaurants selling Western style food or Asian food that has been Westernised. To go with the Western food is the Western prices. You could easily spend HK200 on lunch for two (about AUD40) for something quite basic. Instead, we walked down the other side and came across little Chinese food stalls and for HK48 (AUD8) for two which included two beers! Oh how I love a bargain.

The Sunday saw us at Discovery Bay Plaza with our dog where we settled into a lazy afternoon of too many beers, fish & chips (with some oysters and mussels thrown in for free!) and socialising. There was an Easter Fair on and quite a few people came over to pat the dog as they are gradually overcoming their fear at the size of her.

Monday we went to Tseung Kwan O which takes about one hour to get to from here as it involves a ferry ride (about 25 mins) and two changes on the MTR. We specifically went there for dog food as her favourite is Supercoat, the brand of Doctor Harry and that is very difficult to find in HK. We’ve subsequently found it a little closer to home but it’s still a bit of a hassle. We then carted 20kgs of dog food back across HK.

By the end of the long weekend, we had felt like we had been on holiday and Mr Shallot returned to work quite relaxed.

I’ve still got Easter eggs left.

Thanks to Arrested Development for lending me the title to this post.