Dear Vicky: Hong Kong after Dark

I know it’s a cliché, but Hong Kong is a city that never sleeps. It catnaps. When night falls, millions of humans pour into the streets from office cubes, and Hong Kong reveals its darker self, one that’s been hiding in broad daylight and skyscrapers. I like nightly Hong Kong for its sinister energy, its mockery of capitalistic greed, and its human cogs losing themselves in short stints of euphoria between being ground to dust by their overlord.

When I walk around Hong Kong with a camera at night, I like to capture those smaller, quieter moments of this chaotic metropolis. So if you’d bear with me, I’m gonna show you a few photos.

A picture stall.

I bet he’d never imagined his artist’s dream ended up in this dark alley. That’s why I refuse to have dreams, not that I’m doing better than this guy, and in all likelihood, I am not.

Hong Kong is hot, weather wise.

Outside a Vietnamese restaurant.

An ivory shop

Yes, ivory shops are still a thing in Hong Kong, so are shark fin shops. For the record, I’m against both.

Outside another shop, brand unknown.

Outside one of Hong Kong’s remaining old-school dim sum restaurants.

This is Lin Heung Tea House in Sheung Wan, where waitstaff cart out piles of dim sum dishes into the dining area, and diners have to fight to get what they want. If you are slow, you don’t get to eat. It’s a lot of fun. Here’s a photo I shot during one of my visits there.

Happy New Year

Tram Station in Central.

I’m gonna end on this busy, glamorous shot of Central. See ya!