Hong Kong public transportation is much different from Malaysia in many ways. First, the minibus. The minibus in Hong Kong has a very notorious name, which is called bus that take life, or 夺魂小巴. The fact is that the bus is driven so fast at the hilly area and all the minibuses are attached with a speed meter which will beep once its speed is over 80km/hr. Besides, the minibuses will not depart if it is not full and it also reject standing passenger. And it don't have bell, and passenger who want to get off, you just have to yell "you lok!"(I want to get off).
Second, the MTR, or mass transit railway. It is a very complicated railway web. Imagine to have 8 or 9 main railways in small island like Hong Kong. Every railway station also has mutiple entrances and exits, and you will have big trouble if you exit at the wrong exit! It is convenient, but to new comers, it can be very confusing........
Next, octopus card. It is like debit card which can be used at public transportation, convenient store and vending machine and etc etc. In chinese, it is called 八达通, may be just to described its mutiple uses, and I think it is the reasons it is called 'octopus'. Anyway, we do wonder whether it will deduct the money if we accidentally lean at the vending machine at the incorrect place?
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