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Octopus cards of Hong Kong: bilingual?
On my last trip to Hong Kong I did the same thing as every local resident, and picked up an Octopus card so that I could travel around the city by public transport. What most people don’t know is that the cards come in two versions: English and Chinese.
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Tagged Hong Kong, KCR, Kowloon Canton Railway, language, lost in translation, Mass Transit Railway, MTR, Octopus card, trains
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