Delay No Mall is Delayed No More!
"What a difference a day made, 24 little hours...," sings Dinah Washington as I sit here tapping away on my keyboard. This is the song, I would like to dedicate to the G.O.D. team that transformed Delay No Mall in 24 little hours. After lunch yesterday, BL walked AW and I through what seemed like a war zone -- racks were empty, contractors were still finishing up construction work everywhere, unopened cartons of stock were stacked up in every direction:
By noon today, Delay No Mall soft opened for business. It's still not yet entirely open, but what's up-and-running is looking like a very attractive teaser of what's to come:
For the non-Cantonese speakers reading this blog, here's a little Canto lesson: Delay No More, on which Delay No Mall is based, is the transliteration of a very rude phrase having to do with someone's mother. Canto lesson no. 2: Never greet a Canto-speaker, especially a woman, with "Ciao!" and "Hi!" used in sequence, no matter how cosmopolitan you think you might sound.
Delay No Mall
68 Yee Wo Street
(across the street from JIA Hotel)
Causeway Bay, Hong Kong
T: +852 2577 6988
By noon today, Delay No Mall soft opened for business. It's still not yet entirely open, but what's up-and-running is looking like a very attractive teaser of what's to come:
For the non-Cantonese speakers reading this blog, here's a little Canto lesson: Delay No More, on which Delay No Mall is based, is the transliteration of a very rude phrase having to do with someone's mother. Canto lesson no. 2: Never greet a Canto-speaker, especially a woman, with "Ciao!" and "Hi!" used in sequence, no matter how cosmopolitan you think you might sound.
Delay No Mall
68 Yee Wo Street
(across the street from JIA Hotel)
Causeway Bay, Hong Kong
T: +852 2577 6988
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