The last time I was in Hong Kong was in 2003. It was my first time out of the country since leaving Cambodia at the age of 3 so there definitely was a significant degree of culture shock. Seven years later, Christy and I head back, only this time I’ve got some practice with my Cantonese and brought along my SLR with me.

During this trip, I truly fell in love with my $80 50mm f1.8 aka the Nifty Fifty lens. Such a great little piece of glass and was on my camera 80% of the time because my 24-70 f2.8 was just way too heavy and expensive to be lugging around with me everywhere I went.

We were there for only ten days, but OH MY GOD, it was some of the most hectic and adventourous 10 days I’ve had all year long. Once off the plane, it was literally packed with things to do, see, eat and visit. Some highlights include – two weddings, spending 24+ hours awake after landing on the first day, book 2 lunchs and 2 dinners on one day (happened on several days), stay up at a karaoke lounge til 6am in the morning only to end up at a hole in the wall dim sum restaurant, eat some amazing food at what would be considered a D grade restaurant in California, eat rattle snake, eat tiger prawns, eat mantis shrimp, eat… eat … eat. You get the picture.