The bad news (for me) is that pretty much every shop in Hong Kong that accepts Visa and Mastercard now accepts cards of the Lianhua network as well, which is the network that most Chinese banks subscribe to. So my Communications Bank debit card works in Hong Kong. Baaaaaad news.

So in my perennial Hong Kong habit, I spent too much money on books. Here's the damage (for today; scary thought!):

• Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris (contemporary American)
• How We Are Hungry, short stories by Dave Eggers (contemporary American)
• Carpe Jugulum by Terry Pratchett (dry British humor)
• New Shanghai by Pamela Yatsko (Shanghai current history)
• Empire Made Me by Robert Bickers (Shanghai colonial history)
• Candy by Mian Mian (can I find this in Chinese in the PRC? may be banned; Shanghai contemporary lit)
• Water Margin, vol 1 published by Canfonian PTE LTD (I've got 3, 4 and 5; bilingual vintage comic)
• An Encyclopaedia of Translation: Chinese-English, English-Chinese edited by Chan Sin-wai, David E Pollard (articles ordered by subject)

The total was a little over HKD 1000, or about USD 140. I looked for books on the Emergent church, but the religion section was pretty weak. I may go back and get Rachel DeWoskin's Foreign Babes in Beijing.