The pics in the books are terrible and I believe 10k is too small based on them.
That being said the funny part about my little trip was I specifically offered help to the HK Naval Attache and he said “ I’d prefer to put you on a plane back out of here right now, but I don’t have time to meet the others. Stay out of trouble and stay out of our way - we don’t have time for you guys.”
We all would have preferred to have helped doing anything - coffee, phones, typing, cleaning the shitters..... But I understood why they didn’t want to be bothered with a bunch of wet behind the ear Ensigns. So I took my 3 months advance pay and had one hell of a time in HK for the next 30 days. LOL
Good for you! I have heard great things about Hong Kong!
Despite being part of China now, HK still seems to have a contrarian bent and outlook. Protests against govt intrusion more likely there than in the mainland of course.