Some thoughts on Hong Kong

Phew, that last post was really long.  It's pretty unlikely my posts will be that long in the future.  Anyways, this time I'm talking about my thoughts of Hong Kong from being here 3 weeks now.  Well, throughout my stay I'd like to describe Hong Kong as a land of 3 things: 7-Eleven, shopping, and food.  For this post I'll be tackling 7-Eleven.
I'd like to begin this by saying that Hong Kong has an inordinate number of 7-Elevens, just absolutely ridiculous.  Now I'll give you some history on 7-Eleven, fun right?  For a brief, 7-Eleven started in the US but eventually got bought by a company in Japan where it has the largest number of stores, even more than Hong Kong.  For your information, Japan has 12,349 7-Elevens with 1,557 in Tokyo alone, according to Wikipedia.  Hong Kong has over 711 7-Elevens meaning, if you were paying attention 2 posts ago, there is on average at least one 7-Eleven per square mile in Hong Kong since the total area is 426 square miles.  I'd like to say that that's probably not true but at the same time, there are sometimes 7-Elevens across the street from each other.  To give you an idea of how many there are, I created a composite picture of most of the 7-Elevens I saw from 5/26-6/6 which is at the end of this post.  Part of the reason why there are so many 7-Elevens is that pretty much every MTR station has at least one 7-Eleven.  However, even though there are so many 7-Elevens, what saddened me was that not all of them have Slurpees and being an American, that saddens me somewhat, although quite frankly I'm not sure why.  Anyways, here's the picture.

So, if you don't want to count, that's 10 7-Elevens in that picture, all of them are from different stores.  Interestingly enough, if you look closely at the times in the pictures, you'll see that two of them were taken only 2 minutes apart from each other.  Sadly, there was actually another 7-Eleven close by that I didn't take a picture of, but I think that that proves my point sufficiently.  I think that's all for this post.  It's a lot shorter than the last one but that's just fine.  Anyways, I'm taking a break from Hong Kong posting for the next few but the next Hong Kong post will be on shopping.

--CsMiREK