Professor Whitten expanded our economics knowledge of Hong Kong by explaining to us the specifics of the Asian Financial Crisis from 1996 to 1998 and Hong Kong’s struggle to maintain the linked exchange rate system. At the end of the lecture, he brought up the intriguing topic of food trucks in Hong Kong to demonstrate that even though Hong Kong has been rated the freest economy, that does not mean that it is unregulated. After class, we talked about food trucks in various US cities and the differences in laws/regulations in Hong Kong vs. the United States.
The Williams students joined Yu Laoshi and Ji Laoshi (one of the Language Fellows at Williams last year) for a dim sum meal in the restaurant on campus. My favorite dish from this meal was this fried cheese and radish roll that has a very complicated Chinese name.
Later in the day, Williams and Lingnan students met up to eat some waffles and buy flashlights before our evening hike. We met Professor Chan’s husband at the front of the University and took the lightrail too where the path began. We were lucky because it was one of the few nights that you could actually see the stars in Hong Kong. It was a short but steep hike and the view was gorgeous from the top. I am glad that we did a night hike because all the lights from Hong Kong Island and Shenzhen and in between looked gorgeous from the top. Among the lights, there were also patches of darkness where other mountains or bodies of water interrupted the light.
Once we made it down, I took the lightrail back with some others to Lingnan University and got a quick snack before heading to bed.
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