Thursday, May 21, 2009

Hong Kong - Asia's World City ..........?

..........not when it comes to "alfresco dining" etc. See this article from today SCMP (just click on it for full size). It seems Mr Chan Hok-fung does not like Italian food that much. But it also seems he not at all knows what really makes a "World City".
Can you imagine Rome, Florence, Paris, Amsterdam, Munich, Vienna or, or or......... without people sitting and dining or having a coffee outside and "occupying public space" ?
This decision is stupid.
Almost the complete "non-existence" of the possibility to take a rest at "public spaces" (nothing to sit down, no benches etc) is very obvious in Hong Kong and does not contribute to make it a "World City".

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Yes but public spaces in Europe are better regulated and they don't try and bar "our" public to filipinas=Red Bar at IFC 4 is very guilty here-I always send my filipina wife ahead of me for the sheer delight in taking them down when I arrive behind
Mike