Lan Kwai Fong

Thursdays in Hong Kong for International Students only mean one thing. Club 7 and LKF.

Club 7 - better known as 7-eleven is a chain store similar to Walgreens that you can find in pretty much every corner of Hong Kong. It is very useful when you want to buy snacks, bathroom essentials, food, or my personal favorite: alcohol.

Hong Kong is very liberal when it comes to alcohol laws. Pretty much any store can sell it as long as the recipient is under 18 years of age. 7-eleven is the most convenient store to get it since you can find it everywhere and is really cheap, therefore making it the ideal pregame hub.

Every Thursday night all of the international students from across all of the different universities in Hong Kong hit their local 7-eleven and head to Lan Kuai Fong or LKF, a street filled with bars and clubs. What is even more convenient is that there is a 7-eleven right on it, so you can do all of your after drinking there as well rather than paying the ridiculous prices at the bars, and still go in them afterwards.

I met Mike at the 7-eleven while looking for a drink. He told me that he had blacked out the night before and that he didn't remember anything about the fight. He started telling me the story of how he saw the guy in LKF and apologized for calling him Justin Bieber. Turns out it was a totally different guy than the one from the night before. Typical Mike.

Sadly the night came to an end when I realized that it was 6am and that I had class 3 hours afterwards, so I decided to call it a "night?" and headed home.