World Cities Day – Celebrating our favorites cities!

Today is the International World Cities Day! To celebrate the cities we love, Hummingbag team has unearthed unusual tips, places, and discoveries about its top 5 cities around the world.

Discover Paris, Hong Kong, New York, Tokyo, and Ho Chi Minh differently with Hummingbag team and plan your next original trip to those cities.

PARIS, I love you!
Called the city of Love and romance, Paris is one the most beautiful city where all the loved couples like to walk in the Haussmanien-designed central Paris or the charming cobbled streets of Montmartre or Le Marais. A stroll in Paris hand-in-hand is so romantic.

Paris is also known for its French gastronomy, so why not end your romantic stroll by a pleasant dinner in the capital? Have you ever dream taking a sit at a famous French chef’s table? Enjoy an exceptional experience at the table of the well-known Michelin 3-stars chef Alain Ducasse. An exquisite delight!
(Experience proposed by the agency Greets Paris)
Alain Ducasse’s table

HK, modernity & authenticity!
One of the most dynamic Asian city where modernity meets authenticity with its tall skyscraper and its fulness of parks and temples. Hong Kong is also famous for its cuisine – from seafood to meat, egg tart and waffles to snake soups, roasted suckling pig to hotpots and clay pots… Did we forget anything? Dim Sum, off course!

In Hong Kong, eating dim sum is an institution and what’s best that enjoying dim sum in the Michelin first-starred restaurant “Tim Ho Wan”. Taste among the 25 variety of dim sum, the restaurant is offering. A must-do when in HK!
Tim Ho Wan – Dim Sum Specialist

NY, “Happy jungle where dreams are made of”
New York abounds with activities: shopping on the 5th Avenue, seeing the whole city from the Empire State Building, getting inspired at the MoMA, strolling in Greenwich Village, attending a baseball game, hipstering at Brooklyn, discovering the inside of the “speakeasy” (hidden drinking spots during prohibition), watching blockbusters at Bryan Park, or enjoying a musical comedy on Broadway … You should find yours!

New York is also where most of the musical movements were born, so what about experiencing the voguing? The voguing, what is it? It is a dance born in Harlem inspired by the models’ pose in the Vogue magazine. Strike the pose!
VogueOfArt

TOKYO, the crazy one
A duality between zen and frenzy, the most cutting-edge city Tokyo is where ancient and modern fusion: you can experience it at the frantic Shibuya crossroads and the peaceful Yanaka neighborhood. From historic shrines to the latest technology, you can find everything there!

Playing pachinko, attending a sumo training, shopping at best fashion places, visiting zen gardens and historic temples, enjoying food like sushi and ramen, becoming a cosplay for one day, reading your favorites mangas, playing videos games at Akihabara, wheedling cats in a neko cafe, eating kawaii in a maid cafe, singing in a karaoke in Shinjuku Golden Gai, taking the pose in a purikura (Japanese photo booth), attending a Kabuki (Japanese typical theater), or going to Onsen (Japanese thermal baths) … Tokyo is full of unusual experiences!
And the Vowz Bar is one of those! Having a drink with Buddhist monks whose will listen, advise, and comfort guests. Vowz Bar

HO CHI MINH, the booming city
An exotic city with a unique heritage, Ho Chi Minh is one of the most beautiful Asian cities with a modern urban city center and historical sites that attract 10 million of tourists every year.

Known as well for its continuous flow of motorcycles, in Ho Chi Minh there are 40 million of motorcycles for 90 million of people; we could have talked about the Xe Om – motorcycles taxi – but we chose two places for the foodies, and especially the Durian lovers. Durian is a delicatessen meal in Asia, and most of the foreigners are experiencing difficulties with the particular taste of Durian… In Ho Chi Minh, you can eat delicious durian ice cream at Kem Bach Deng and durian crumb sticks at Tám Sài Gòn! Yummy!
Kem Bach Deng
Tam Sai Gon