Christmas in Hong Kong
Many people ask me what Hong Kong does at Christmas time.
We have the least stressful Christmas Day imaginable. Everything remains open and we all go out to restaurants to Christmas Day Lunch and/or Dinner. Same for Boxing Day. It is important to book such places around a month in advance as competition for the best venues is fierce.
Someone else cooks.
Someone else cleans.
Bliss.
I have had some bizarre Christmas Days overseas. None more so than being the guest of a certain gentleman at his house only to have his ex-wife turn up and aggressively take over the kitchen. The other guests expected a floor show to commence in a battle between old and new. I couldn't look a gift horse in the mouth and simply exited the kitchen with everyone else and let her spend the entire day sweating over the oven. Cooking and cleaning on Christmas Day looks far too hard to contemplate.
Merry Christmas to everyone in New Zealand planning to cook and clean tomorrow as you wonder how next year you can delegate such functions to someone else.
We have the least stressful Christmas Day imaginable. Everything remains open and we all go out to restaurants to Christmas Day Lunch and/or Dinner. Same for Boxing Day. It is important to book such places around a month in advance as competition for the best venues is fierce.
Someone else cooks.
Someone else cleans.
Bliss.
I have had some bizarre Christmas Days overseas. None more so than being the guest of a certain gentleman at his house only to have his ex-wife turn up and aggressively take over the kitchen. The other guests expected a floor show to commence in a battle between old and new. I couldn't look a gift horse in the mouth and simply exited the kitchen with everyone else and let her spend the entire day sweating over the oven. Cooking and cleaning on Christmas Day looks far too hard to contemplate.
Merry Christmas to everyone in New Zealand planning to cook and clean tomorrow as you wonder how next year you can delegate such functions to someone else.
posted by Cactus Kate at 10:43 PM
4 Comments:
A few years ago I treated (paid for) my folks, the in-laws and the whole family to a decent hotel Xmas dinner. The in-laws moaned it wasn't very nice like they were royalty! It was damn good by every ones elses account. So, never bothered the in-laws that idea again.
Do they do countdowns on Xmas eve? My daughter in China noted this phenomenon in Xiamen. . .
Merry Kiss My Ass Kate !!!
:)
In preparation for Xmas 2012 I will be starting a FB page (not really) called 'My heart is two sizes too small.' A group for other grinchi (ploural lol?) to rub each others backs and cynicism and much much more! As you can tell, I dislike xmas. A lot. I even hate the fact I dislike it and have tried to get on the jolly bandwagon many a time. It's simply a no-go for me. The pros of xmas certainly don't outweigh the cons for me personally. I like the idea of being able to pay someone to do a chunk of the thinking and gruntwork at least though - bring on businesses opening on xmas and boxing day in NZ! Hoorah!
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