Cake Shopping

Yesterday Ingrid and I hit the streets/malls of Hong Kong's Central District to see what we could find for Daddy's Day. This is a town of luxury goods, every brand is represented from Prada to Bvlgari to high end European labels that I never knew existed until I moved to Hong Kong. If you want it, you got here. Let's add, if you want to pay about 1.5 times the U.S. price then you got it. But Ingrid told me that she wanted to get Dad something a little more personal than the Grand Prix de Monaco Historique watch he has been eyeing. After all she resisted getting Mommy the 101.5 carat diamond we saw last weekend at the Four Seasons' exhibit of the Sotheby's Diamond Collection. Hong Kong truly is a town for the wealthy shoppers of the world.


To help make my point yesterday I discovered one more way to spend some serious money and it was on birthday cakes. At the Mandarin Oriental's Cake Shop desserts come in all shapes and sizes, cakes in the shape of fancy handbags and cakes made to look like Carmen Maranda's signature headwear. It was Charlie and the Chocolate Factory meets Park Avenue. The Chihuahua cake was my favorite...I pictured the dog loving birthday boy or girl getting the first piece which would of course be the chihuahua's head, what an honor. Yet another upside to living amongst the uber wealthy shopping set is that though I couldn't/wouldn't buy a lot of these high fashion items I get to see some very creative ways to spend.