On the Spray to Shenzhen

Last week my glorious sister Beate came to spend Christmas in Hong Kong which she did and how. But no trip to Hong Kong is complete without a trip to Shenzhen. Is it? No, it isn’t! Halfway to the excellent Lok Ma Chau crossing, (so much better than Lo Wu crossing) or rather, halfway to the excellent bus leaving from the north gate of the Citygate mainlander shopping centre in Tung Chung, I realised we didn’t have any hairspray.

Oh no! I had assured my sister she wouldn’t need any kind of product as I had everything.

Fortunately the excellent Sa Sa, just one quick escalator up from the never-waiting bus, came to our rescue. There it was, a mini canister of Bed Head, the best hairspray ever invented for Scandihooligan hair. I got back on the bus with several seconds to spare, and told my sister about my last hairspray-related incident:

A few days later J and I got on a train to Yunnan!!!!!! Also from Shenzhen.

As we passed the x-ray eagles going into the station, I heard mutters of “hairspray three canisters” but this time I preempted their strike by going up and showing them the little innocent tubes. Tiny ones, not large like in the story above. I sprayed myself in the eye to show it wasn’t Sarin or acid, and they laughed and said okay. Bring on the Yunnan!

市中心 － Si Jung Sam (Citygate Tung Chung)
頭髮噴霧 – Tau fat pan mou (Hair puff mist/hairspray)
雲南 – Wan Lam (Cloud South/Yunnan)