I like to shift offices from place-to-place.  It keeps me interested and focused.  I know it would be a dream for many people to work from home, but for me, staying in one location is hard.  So, this is an easy problem to solve since my office if portable – my laptop!  I often go to a Hong Kong chain restaurant in a large shopping area near my apartment for breakfast.  The name, in Chinese, is “Da4 Jia1 Le4″ which translates to “Everybody’s Happy”.  That’s a typical Chinese name.  Though it has an English name too (since it’s from Hong Kong), “Cafe de Coral”, my expat friends and I prefer to humorously call it “Everybody’s Happy”.  “Hey, I’m going to ‘Everybody’s Happy’ for breakfast tomorrow morning.  Come along and bring your laptop!” or “Are you at ‘Everybody’s Happy’ now?”

The breakfasts are really good and inexpensive.  I’ve been told that the coffee is terrible, but that doesn’t matter to me; I always have hot milk tea.  My favorite breakfast consists of:   Breaded fish, little ham slice, scrambled eggs, toast, some corn, with hot milk tea.  It runs around $2.60.

Where “Everybody’s Happy” stands apart though is its wireless internet.  It is fast and reliable, which is pretty rare here.  So, it’s a great place to come work!  The only downside is that every restaurant (I also visited one in GuangZhou) uses the same 10 annoying 1950’s American songs on endless repeat.  OK, the songs aren’t bad but they repeat over and over and it drives me insane.  Reminds me of Christmas carols.  So, my medication:  I ready my iPod and crank something like Therion, Racer X, Yngwie Malmsteen, Wintersun, or Ozzy Osbourne.  Something with a nice wall of sound.

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