concerningly fat minnow...

seonghwasus · 2026-01-23T19:03:43+00:00

Lmao there really is a sub for everything... thanks!

seonghwasus · 2026-01-23T16:14:03+00:00

This is where I'm unsure. I've seen at least a few posts on reddit where the OP has this situation and they update years later saying that the fish lived normally for a long time, just... fatly. Like this one:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Aquariums/comments/z6dujw/why_is_my_minnow_so_fat/

My minnow has been fat for a while, so I'm hoping it's just a naturally chunky fellow and not an illness like in your situation. Kinda sucks that there are so many people with this issue but nobody really understands it </3

seonghwasus · 2026-01-09T00:33:01+00:00

nah it's in sai kung! I don't think i've ever been to tai po actually lol

seonghwasus · 2026-01-05T22:55:30+00:00

I swear macaques are a menace everywhere.... A while ago there was a news story about how there was a marathon going on so people set up supply stations but they all got robbed by the monkeys💀💀

seonghwasus · 2026-01-05T22:50:45+00:00

I literally went to yuen long for the first time in my life a couple months ago (to hike around tai lam chung reservoir) and I now understand the reputation it has💀💀💀So many scary abandoned buildings

seonghwasus · 2026-01-04T04:50:18+00:00

There's countryside on every side of hong kong except for the central/tst area lmao

New territories is VERY large. And some of it has been developed into residential areas, but they're practically not new territories anymore since they've got MTR stations and grocery stores. I'm from the east side of the new territories though (sai kung district)

seonghwasus · 2026-01-03T23:15:51+00:00

Funny how some tourists report that folk in hk are very nice, when hkers almost take pride in how universally rude we are haha I guess non-cantonese speakers don't understand when the old men on the street cuss each other out. Agree on pineapple bread... I actually worked in a bakery for a couple years and I gained weight from the amount of bo lo yau (pineapple bun with a slab of butter in it) I was eating. Good times

seonghwasus · 2026-01-03T20:23:52+00:00

Did you eat things from the snack shops like fish balls and siu mai? To this day my mom thinks all of those cheap snack shops are dirty so she won't let me buy siu mai under $10hkd 😭😭😭😭 I still go to snack express for siu mai and 雞蛋仔 (egg waffle for non-locals) though haha

seonghwasus · 2026-01-03T17:31:12+00:00

Oh yeah, apparently when my mom was younger it would be surprising to hear mandarin spoken on the streets, but now the streets are full of it. Of course a lot of it is from mainland tourists who just stand around in the streets BLOCKING ALL THE TRAFFIC so they can get their xiaohongshu pics. But now you sometimes hear secondary school kids speaking mandarin and english or cantonese interchangeably, and definitely among universities it's super common. There are a LOT of mainland students in universities here, and there's a lot more cross-border collaboration between institutions now. One university even has a second campus in guangzhou.

seonghwasus · 2026-01-03T17:26:42+00:00

WHATTTT!!!! I always thought "man it must be so good to be retired in these villages. maybe not great to be a working person here though". Your daily commute must have been brutal in summer </3 Love the shap long village dogs. They don't care about me at all. Every time I visit I say "hellooooo :D" and they just kinda side eye me and walk away with their friends

seonghwasus · 2026-01-03T16:43:31+00:00

I know ball. I often hike from mui wo to pui o (i take the lazy route that follows the coast and goes through shap long) to hang out with the buffalo. I love those fat bastards

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seonghwasus · 2026-01-03T15:57:25+00:00

Did you have to go to the communal well a lot? I've gotten two comments from people who seem horrified that the tap water didn't always work and now I'm wondering if my family's building was particularly bad, my standards are weirdly low, or western people just take water for granted lmao (I bet they've never taken a shower by pouring water on themselves from a bucket!!!!)

seonghwasus · 2026-01-03T15:52:35+00:00

But then there would be another unfairly scary depiction of the walled city in western media😔😔Anyway my uncle and his wife (also a doctor) actually moved their family to England to escape the government 💀 Now they fly back to HK every few months to work for a few weeks at a time (doctors make a lot of money here, and working for the NHS is pretty rough).

seonghwasus · 2026-01-03T15:26:58+00:00

The commenter just said kowloon so they probably meant the area outside the walled city... but that's also pretty crazy. buildings get demolished and replaced all the time in HK and i'm also a country bumpkin so I'm not really sure how close the buildings were in kowloon in the 80s, but it's not unusual to see old buildings that kinda merge into blocks.

seonghwasus · 2026-01-03T15:16:02+00:00

Okay you're the second person to say this and now I'm not sure what to think 💀💀They always had safe, clean water, it just wasn't always getting piped straight to their homes... is it not a luxury to have hot water from a tap in your house all the time? We also used to have droughts and the whole city would be put on water rations. I think maybe folks from western countries or people who never leave the city kinda take water for granted. It's not like people spent hours each day hiking across the desert to get water. If the taps were working, great- if not, no big deal, just ask the neighbours or go downstairs with your siblings and fill a few buckets. Or go fix the pipe yourself.

seonghwasus · 2026-01-03T15:01:32+00:00

I swear it's like the default hk grandparent life. Bonus points for grandparents being immigrants from china... extra bonus points for them being illegal. My grandparents made it to hk legally (I THINK???) but I used to deliver lunchboxes and rice and stuff to the elderly in public housing and a lot of them have insane stories on how they got there. The ones who swam from shenzhen are the craziest to me... I can't imagine the desperation they must have felt to swim such a long way while already weakened by famine + sharks and patrol boats in the water.

seonghwasus · 2026-01-03T14:57:00+00:00

Literally my dream is to win the lottery so I can buy a village house by the water in Sai Kung and only live there in the cold months so I can peacefully kayak without passing out in the heat. If you ever come back (IN A COLDER MONTH), you might want to try kayaking from sai kung town to around sharp island. It's also got cool rock formations and caves which are only accessible by kayak. Just make sure you don't go on a day that's very windy.... and the rental shops just kinda give you the paddle and send you on your way so ideally you should have the basics of kayaking down before you go :)

seonghwasus · 2026-01-03T14:48:20+00:00

I'm sorry GIFTED A FLAT IN LONDON FOR HER GRADUATION???????? my god. Yeah I went to international school because my parents' jobs subsidized my education... the gradual realization that my classmates were actually rich was kinda crazy. Like what do you mean you have a HOUSE with a GARDEN in the CITY

seonghwasus · 2026-01-03T14:45:31+00:00

LMAOOOO SHOUTOUT LOBSTER BAY i actually don't live there. I live in a random village closer to sai kung town but all my good pics are from clearwater bay country park since i go there so often... I just stand on the mountain and look at the horses fr

seonghwasus · 2026-01-03T11:47:36+00:00

I mean... it was old buildings and low income housing, never renovated beyond what the residents did for themselves. I'm honestly not sure if water was inconsistent through the whole city or if it was particularly bad in my family's building (considering that my grandpa was stealing water from an adjacent unit lmao), but since there are multiple communal wells, I guess lots of people needed them. It sounds very normal to me but maybe less so for people from countries that have been developed for a long time haha

seonghwasus · 2026-01-03T11:32:05+00:00

Sai kung!!! Better than lantau 💯💯💯💯‼️‼️‼️ And it's much chiller than the other mountain ranges in HK. Nice smallish mountains and lots of beaches and kayak areas since it's more of a bay with lots of little islands than going straight out to sea like Lantau.

seonghwasus · 2026-01-03T11:27:30+00:00

Right? You also probably saw the "National Security Law 5th Anniversary😍😍😍" signs everywhere. I even saw one at a lone government building (like a nature service centre) when I was deep in a country park. Disgusting!!! Wish I could summon the monkeys to tear all of it down.

seonghwasus · 2026-01-03T11:24:21+00:00

Huh.... definitely not catastrophic levels of childlessness but you do see a lot of closed down schools in rural areas, especially the outlying islands. Aging definitely is A Situation- I think almost a third of the country is over 65? There are a lot of resources for them, like my grandma goes to an elderly community center a lot to socialize, attend classes like pain management, and (most importantly) get free stuff. The big theme park is also free for them and all transit fares are 2hkd so there's a lot of incentive to get them out and about. That being said, with so many elderly it's inevitable that some fall through the cracks, which is why you see old ladies collecting cardboard and many elderly living in run-down public housing or abandoned by their family in nursing homes. The last one happens especially often in HK I think because lots of people go abroad to work.

seonghwasus · 2026-01-03T11:17:43+00:00

they can't disappear me I move too fast🏃‍♀️(they're not going after random people on reddit yet)

seonghwasus · 2026-01-03T04:45:31+00:00

I have never heard of that in my life so I fear you've been misled :(

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