As summer winds down, our colleagues are starting to trickle back from their trips to their home countries, it's fun to see what they bring back with them. In Hong Kong, you can pretty much find anything. It's just a question of how hard are you willing to work to track it down, how far are you willing to go to get it, and how much are you willing to pay for it?When Julie came back from the States this month, she brought gummi vitamins for the girls, disposable razors, his and her Tom's of Maine deodorant, lots and lots of tubes of anti-fungal cream (darn that sub-tropical humidity), Benadryl -which is not sold over the counter here, spices, packets of taco seasoning, the book Sacred Influence by Gary Thomas, and a Pampered Chef hand-crank cheese grater she liberated from her mother's kitchen cabinet.
Our neighbor brought back an electric breadmaker machine all the way from Canada.
Last year, a colleague of ours attempted to bring back two large tubs of salsa from Cosco. But without thinking, she packed them in her carry-on luggage instead of her checked luggage.
Homeland security confiscated it.
-Jack
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