Andrea: The next day we had to relocate hostels (another by-product of the Qantas strike). Our new hostel was actually on Hong Kong Island in a neighborhood called Causeway Bay. So now we were on the side where all the action was happening, but the views of the harbor weren't as spectacular.We wanted to try dim sum for breakfast since we read it was very typical in HK. We stood in the middle of the sidewalk gazing upwards like tourists hoping a good restaurant wo...

Andrea: We jumped off the bus from the airport in Mong Kok and were greeted by a wall of neon. Everywhere. And people. The rest of the night is a blur (of advertisements). Apparently Mong Kok is one of the most densly populated places on the planet and I am not going to argue with that! We had very detailed directions to the hostel until it said it was 'between the two mobile phone shops.' We got to where the building should have been and looked to the left. Mobi...