Safety Tips in Hong Kong

If you are a smoker. Please smoke near to the trash area. Not every you can lit up your cigarette. Do not simply throw the cigarette bud on the floor or else where. Please throw in the trash bin. Once you been caught by plain uniform police, you'll be issue a summon of HKD1500.

Do not try to bribe them. By bribing them, you'll caught yourself another offence.

If you've had a long day and are in the mood for a massage, count yourself lucky. HK is excellent in that regard, and you'll be able to find any type of parlour you can imagine. Just BEWARE though, some of the massage services offering "full service" are not only crooked, they're dangerous. One price listed, then it's regotiated during the massage. Be careful, guys.

Plenty of parlours in Kowloon cater to international tastes, and you can easily find Thai massages or Swedish, Shiatsu. . .you name it. Just be careful in the more shady parlours. Have fun in HK!

Huge and flying! I never saw those kind before! I did scream loud when first saw at night! And tried not to open my mouth wide=) but inside buildings u wont find those only on streets and mostly at night!

If you are a Filipino, don't be surprised to see & hear Chinese airport staffs shouting "Domestik Helpe" and directing that you line up on a different counter.... They have this notion that mostly of the Filipinos arriving in Hong Kong are for domestic employment and if you are one, they would evidently treat you lowly . I may be one of the lucky ones who have the luxury to travel and be recognized as tourist but I must admit that it offends me that Filipinos are being generalized and branded. Been there thrice and each time I witness that it pricks my heart. What more are the feelings of those who are really there for employment, unselfishly depriving themselves of the time with their families to have a slightly higher income abroad and support them at home? The nobility of their intentions & what they do is masked by the materialism of the world. They should never at all times be approached & treated that way! It's one of the harshness of life that I will forever condemn because my father was once an OFW too.

Be careful crossing the streets. Always look to your right. Some drivers are not respectful to the pedestrians. Also locals may tend to disobey traffic rules like when the red sign is on they still cross the streets. Safety is the name of the game.

Although majority of HKers speak English and I really have no problem understanding them, there are some who doesnt speak it well. I sometime go to McDonalds to buy fries etc, and the servers are mostly youngsters.

So they may not be able to understand our English and vice versa. So it would really help if we just point to the pictures in the menu. And if you want to upsize your meal, dont say upsize but say bigger. And if you want it take away, say plastic bag.

Cantonese is the local language in Hong Kong, some may speak Mandarin but don't rely on it, English is surprisingly not spoken by a large number of people, since the British handover, English has been less studied in schools, although the older generation can often speak it very well.

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do not exchange your money in HK airport banks (US dollars to HK dollars) nor to the tour operator who will pick you up at the airport. buy only about 100 HK dollars for your pocket money in the next 12 hours. exchange with them are 10-20% more expensive compared if you will buy HK dollars in the city proper e.g. in Haiphong Road in Tsim Sha Tsui.