Child Octopus

Pretty Good Number One is Better

This is definitely a fun and interesting read with many travel tidbits to file away for a future trip to Hong Kong, although this book didn't feel as complete or as organized as Pretty Good Number One. More food photos and descriptions accompanied names of restaurants this time around, but stories conveying the cultural pulse of Hong Kong seemed lacking.

The anecdotes were spare, especially when I was looking forward to more accounts of day-to-day life from an American perspective. The trip was shorter, so definitely was less time for Mr. Amster-Burton to explore Hong Kong than his longer odyssey in Japan.

I would love to read another travel book from Amster-Burton if he spends at least another month with his family in another Asian city. There's a certain storytelling synergy that seems to only come from Amster-Burton after a longer stay in another country.