Christmas in Hong Kong

So Christmas has passed but Hong Kong is still in Christmas mode. For a region that's not particularly Christian but very consumerist, let's just say that Christmas is just another excuse to shop and take pictures with cool stuff. There's no snow in Hong Kong but there's a ton of "Christmas" decorations. Well... ostentatious sparkly stuff that's somewhat related to Christmas.

Exhibit A:


The Christmas Tree at the New Town Plaza in Shatin.

Then there are Christmas trees that are blatant displays of the commercial side of the holidays.

A tree made of fake Ferrero Rochers in Tsim Sha Tsui.


A Toy Story-related Christmas tree in Ocean Terminal in Tsim Sha Tsui. A huge ad for HK Disneyland's new Toy Storyland was outside.

Some Christmas decorations were kind of simple, classy and pretty, like these twinkle lights, at Lane Crawford in TST.


Other times, it was kind of random...


Times Square in Causeway Bay.

And then sometimes, you had no clue what the hell is going on...


Megabox in Kowloon Bay.

Sometimes you had some decorations that were really gorgeous...


This is right under the super long escalator at Langham Place.

... Only to have it marred by some random Hello Kitty stuff that's somehow related to Christmas.


(I didn't take either of the Hello Kitty pictures, they were taken from the internet.)

Sigh. I'm literally dreaming of my white Christmases, though there wasn't one this year in Toronto.

Well, on a brighter note, at least the only Hannukah display I could find was not a moment of sensory overload!


At the statue garden in Central.

Happy holidays, everyone and happy new year!!!