Ask HN: Good coffee shops to work out of in Hong Kong

#1

Post by bsudekum » Sun, Oct 18, 2015, 10:34 PM UTC

I'm going to be working remotely for the next five days in Hong Kong. Could anyone recommend any good coffee shops to work out of for the day? Decent wifi/outlets/coffee needed.

Also if anyone wants to meet up and talk maps/node/react(native), I'm down. I'm @bobws on twitter and an engineer at @Mapbox.

Re: Ask HN: Good coffee shops to work out of in Hong Kong

#2

Post by anon4_ » Mon, Oct 19, 2015, 1:08 AM UTC

Hey there,

You can use your (USA) bank card at a lot of bank ATMS.

All the McDonalds in HK have free WiFi. Carry cash with you.

Festival Walk Mall in Kowloon Tong, big food court with free wifi.

Starbucks have free wifi printed on their receipts in HK and throughout China at large.

Re: Ask HN: Good coffee shops to work out of in Hong Kong

#3

Post by auganov » Mon, Oct 19, 2015, 10:39 AM UTC

If you don't need a lot of data I really recommend PCCW's "8 day pass" sim cards. You get 5GB of traffic for 118 HK$. Has decent LTE coverage, was getting up to 40mbps.

Re: Ask HN: Good coffee shops to work out of in Hong Kong

#4

Post by kstenson » Mon, Oct 19, 2015, 8:45 PM UTC

Check out coCoon tech co-working space while you're there: http://www.hkcocoon.org/en/index.aspx

it's only 700 hkd for the week pass.

Re: Ask HN: Good coffee shops to work out of in Hong Kong

#5

Post by rahimnathwani » Tue, Oct 20, 2015, 2:37 AM UTC

auganov wrote: post #3

If you don't need a lot of data I really recommend PCCW's "8 day pass" sim cards. You get 5GB of traffic for 118 HK$. Has decent LTE coverage, was getting up to 40mbps.

http://www.discoverhongkong.com/us/plan-your-trip/traveller-...

List of outlets that sell it: http://www.hkcsl.com/en/Discover-HK-Tourist-Prepaid-SIM/#sho...