When I first came back from Europe, I found Hong Kong extremely boring. There weren’t cool galleries with contemporary art exhibitions, no free cheese and wine tasting, no weekend beer music festivals. So, I’ve decided to make to make my summer an atypical one by subscribing to different blogs and lifestyle newsletters, hoping to get inspired and be involved in cool activities. And yep, so far it has been a good summer trying out new restaurants, going to free movie screening (and even randomly popping up in a zara recruitment interview lol)
Who knew freebie and discount hunting could be so fun and rewarding?!
ChaChaWan 50%off dinner menu! So Minnie, Eos, Mal and I went to try this new Isaan/Thai restaurant in Hollywood Road and man, we were SO impressed by the cool decor. With bright green Chinese foldable gates that lure you into the place, the interior of this 2-floored restaurant is original with old Chinese posters and murals displaying the old Hong Kong (kinda like G.O.D). The entrance of the place was decorated with a green cart full of herbs like bright red chili and made us anticipate tasting authentic Thai even more. When we were finally led upstairs to our table, we couldn’t hide our excitement and glee to see the cool Chinese/ Asian paintings and artworks displayed on the walls.
Okay, to the food. They were SO SO GOOOD. I mean, I don’t think I have really tried real authentic Thai food before since I never went to Thailand. But these spicy dishes were all a huge delight to my taste buds. We tried the papaya salad with crispy pork, grilled chicken skewers and the Salt-crusted whole seabass stuffed with lemongrass, pandanas and lime leaf, cooked over fire, with a green chili dipping sauce. The fish was simply heavenly. We dug in like barbarians and ate everything edible off the bones lol. Dessert was good as well, I really enjoyed the passionfruit sorbet cause there was nothing artificial.
-Zara Pop-Up Talent Tour-
This has been the most hilarious and interesting 2013 summer incident so far. Attracted by the word “gift”, I was misled into thinking that there would be freebies in this pop-up zara fashion store. So I shared this with Minnie and we were so enthusiastic about this visit as we walked up Hollywood Road. Much to our surprise, we were welcomed by two Zara staff members who handed us forms to fill in as they are actually recruiting staff members. We originally came for freebies and to look around but we eventually got persuaded into filling in the forms and going to an interview held upstairs. As we walked up the stairs, we already knew that the whole thing was a mistake. People came here with CVs, legit passport photos and are ready to get interviewed. Minnie and I were laughing and smirking our way up the stairs, knowing that we were here for fun since we have literally got nothing to do in summer. This spontaneous and random interview seems totally absurd, I mean, I never planned on being a sales in Zara and so how can I tell you why I am interested in joining Zara?? Nonetheless, It was a really interesting experience and I guess it’s also an opportunity that doesn’t come often. We sat in semi circle with four other applicants who were clearly more psychologically prepared than us and a group interview was conducted. We were first asked to introduce ourselves and then three situation questions were asked. My English/ Putonghua abilities as well as my quick wit were put to test. I have to admit that this was my first proper interview for a legit job and I might not have given the most quick-witted or appropriate answers, but it has been a rather rewarding experience as the Zara staff shared some “model answers” after each question.
We were extremely disappointed cause we didn’t get any freebies after the interview and Minnie was blaming me for tricking her into coming. However, we both agreed that this spontaneous interview might come in handy in the future and who knows, we might really get employed by Zara! Fingers crossed! X
-FREE movie screening and Cooking Demonstration- (to be cont’d)
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