Japan - UFO Ramen

Japan in preparing for the upcoming alien invasion by making food specially for our new alien overlords.

Japan - Train to Hell

The 3:05 Kodama Shinkansen (Bullet Train) makes a quick stop in Hell on the way to Tokyo.

Japan - Ham Sandwich

I was taking the Shinkansen (Bullet Train) back to Tokyo and wanted to get something to eat, so I bought a ham sandwich from the food cart. This is my sad, mostly meatless sandwich.

Where's the Wendy's lady when you need her? "Where's the Beef!" except in this case it's where's the Ham!

Where's the meat!

Hong Kong - Curved Buildings

While in Hong Kong in order to take photos of some of the really tall buildings I started playing around with shooting vertical panoramas, taking several photos of a building to capture all of it and then combining the photos in the computer. Because the combined photos would be a wider angle view then is actually physically possible, showing both looking up and looking down, there had to be some distortion added to the photos which I though makes then more interesting.

Hong Kong - Time Lapse

Some time lapse movies I took while in Hong Kong.

Hong Kong - Hotel

My hotel room at the Harbour Grand Hong Kong.

Hong Kong - Street Market

The Horror! Think of all the poor chickens having to hop around with no feet.

Like in Taiwan, you can get your chicken very fresh.

Chicken and Duck

Hong Kong - Sexual Well-being Store

I was wandering around Hong Kong when I saw the Sexual Well-being Store.

I love that there's a poster of a little old Chinese lady with a big smile holding a vibrator. What's a little scary is that the poster says that there's demos in the store. I wonder if they'll let you try one out right there in the store.

Hong Kong - Wong Tai Sin Temple

Hong Kong - It's Me!

Hong Kong - Market Streets

Scattered throughout Hong Kong were the different market streets. Each street would specialize in a certain type of products. Here's some photos from three streets close to the Prince Edward subway station.



Gold Fish Street







Flower Street



Bird Street

Hong Kong - Marina

Hong Kong - Interesting Plant

I was wandering around a park in Hong Kong and I saw this interesting plant. What was cool about it was that the top of the leafs were a normal green color. But the underside of the leafs are a deep red color.

Hong Kong - Tall Buildings

Hong Kong - Fanasy Vegetarian Restaurant

Fantasy Vegetarian Restaurant, I think the fantasy is that you have to image that you're eating meat.

Hong Kong - Hotel

One of the Hotels I stayed at in Hong Kong was the Empire Hotel in Causeway Bay. The room was very nice and had a glass wall between the shower/bathroom area and the main part of the hotel room. I've stayed in lots of hotels that had showers like that so I didn't think it was too interesting at first. But then I realized that there was a extra light switch in the bathroom and when you flipped the switch the glass wall instantly turned a opaque white. Pretty High-Tech!

Hong Kong - No Spitting

No spitting sign that I saw around the subway stations.

Hong Kong - Umbrella Vending

Everyone knows that Japan is famous for vending machines, but in Hong Kong I found a cool umbrella vending machine. I wonder if it's connected to the weather so that it know to jack up the price when it's raining.

Hong Kong - McCafe

One thing I had not seen before was the McCafe. At a lot of the McDonald's there was a side section call McCafe, where it was more like a nice coffee shop with all of the things you would expect to find at a Starbucks or something similar.

Hong Kong - Food