Domomo » photos http://domomo.org muffins are just ugly cupcakes Sat, 22 Oct 2011 13:48:28 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Pinnacle and KAVALAN http://domomo.org/2010/10/05/pinnacle-and-kalavan/ http://domomo.org/2010/10/05/pinnacle-and-kalavan/#comments Tue, 05 Oct 2010 15:21:22 +0000 Dom http://domomo.org/?p=588 Picked up a bottle of Canadian ice apple wine and Taiwanese cask strength whiskey at the duty-free in Taiwan over the weekend.

Domaine Pinnacle, Ice Apple Wine (Quebec, Canada)
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KAVALAN, Cask Strength Single Malt Whiskey (Taiwan)

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I swear, Polymetrica and his Lovely Package shares on Google Reader are turning me into a package whore. Also, I should really shoot these things with better lighting :3

I also found these really cool bottles of rice wine . The bottle was shaped like a Tiger, filled with clear rice wine with gold flakes and the tail of the tiger comes off and that’s how you pour the wine out. Another bottle had a glass dragon inside the bottle. Both were pretty darn expensive (we are talking hundreds of US$ here) and unfortunately, I couldn’t get a photo :(

Taiwan photos tomorrow (hopefully)~!

Edit: oops, yeah apparently I can’t even spell KAVALAN properly. Fixed.

]]> http://domomo.org/2010/10/05/pinnacle-and-kalavan/feed/ 0 Chinese voodoo & a R2D2 bag from UNIQLO http://domomo.org/2010/03/08/chinese-voodoo-a-r2d2-bag-from-uniqlo/ http://domomo.org/2010/03/08/chinese-voodoo-a-r2d2-bag-from-uniqlo/#comments Sun, 07 Mar 2010 17:02:21 +0000 Dom http://domomo.org/?p=284 So I was talking to someone the other day, and realized that alot of people who read this (yeah the whole three of you) don’t actually live in Hong Kong and are quite surprised when I talk about, what I feel, are normal everyday occurrences. For example, I had this conversation back in December with a friend from Toronto:

me: Dude, there was another acid attack today
ColdSoup: Oh did you know..
ColdSoup: … wait, WHAT?
me: Yeah some guy threw acid off a roof into a crowd, again!
ColdSoup: Uhh wow. AGAIN!? I was just gonna tell you about how there was a shooting down the street from me, but … wow.
me: I miss shootings and stabbings. It sure is a whole lot less scary sounding.

So my point is, I’ll try to talk more about the randomness I see here in Hong Kong. Now I know… Hong Kong is not like Japan or Korea where they got some crazy stuff happening every other day, but Hong Kong can be interesting too!! I was down in Causeway Bay yesterday when I saw these huge crowds under this bridge so I went to check it out. Apparently it was a special day for something I only know how to say in Chinese. Its a form of voodoo I guess, and what happens is you write a name on this paper and then the lady will smack it to oblivion with a slipper, set it on fire and … yeah. Kind of crazy if you ask me, but hey, I don’t judge.

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Down the street from the bridge, I was in this alleyway market and got stuck there for about 15 minutes because infront of me was this lion dance, and behind me a crowd had formed to watch.

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Oh and I got an R2D2 bag from UNIQLO! Their clothes maybe as plain as vanilla ice cream, but I love their paper bags!! And I actually, I <3 clothes from UNIQLO …

And huzzah! for Big Bang Theory season 1 was on sale at HMV. Couldn’t resist ^__^y

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