We are kicking off our blog with a story from this past weekend. Last Saturday night we went into a Sasa store on Queens Road Central near our apartment. Sasa stores sell all types of beauty and health care products, and they are ubiquitous in Hong Kong. While perusing the wide selection of products, JT stumbled upon this very interesting product: ExpresSlim. The words are a bit blurred (which shall be explained later) but it says: "Specific slimming gel for love handles -8 days." On the bottom, it says "Up to -5 cm." Wow! In eight days, you could lose 5 cm off your love handles and look like the man pictured on the packaging.
I was so impressed by the results that I decided to take a picture of the product, at which point in time, an angry employee started yelling in Cantonese. When I played dumb (well, I actually didn't have to play dumb because I don't understand any Cantonese), the woman said, "Ma'am, no pictures!" Hmm... query as to why Sasa has a no-picture policy. One has to wonder. I got the picture anyway, albeit a bit blurred since I was trying to but failed to steady the camera as the woman was yelling at me.
Now that we've probably been black-listed from that Sasa store, we hope to visit some more in the future and introduce additional one-of-a-kind products like ExpresSlim. And if anyone is interested in trying out ExpresSlim, just let us know, and we'll bring some back next time we are home.
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