Democracy activists Joshua Wong and Nathan Law celebrated their first day on bail by doing what any normal Hong Konger would do: eat and play video games.
Wong and Law were jailed in August for six and eight months respectively for their roles in the 2014 Umbrella Movement protests. Whilst both were serving their sentences, Wong celebrated his 21st birthday behind bars, and both men missed Mid-Autumn Festival dinners with their families, girlfriends and friends.
After being granted bail at the Court of Final Appeal and addressing journalists and supporters yesterday, the first order of business was to find good food.
In a short video posted by Apple Daily, Wong is filmed speaking on the phone with someone (presumably his mother), saying: “If you haven’t started cooking yet, why don’t we get hotpot or go out and eat?… Maybe look for a buffet?”
Wong was greeted at the court by his father, Roger Wong who told the newspaper: “Tonight we will have a midnight snack, then his mom will make some milk tea and I will make some instant noodles using a secret recipe.”
Wong, fresh from meeting lawyers at Two Pacific Place in Admiralty, later listed to Apple Daily what he was planning on eating: “There’s going to be beef, lamb, those rolls you use for hotpot, oysters, the important thing is to have the fried garlic and mix that in with some soy sauce.”
When asked by the newspaper what he plans to do after he has eaten, Wong replied: “I’m going to play on my PS4. I got the console last month but I didn’t get to play on it.”
And true to his word, Wong posted on his Instagram a photo of him playing Gundam Versus under the caption “fight!”
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Also enjoying a night of video games was Law, who also posted on Instagram a picture of him playing FIFA under the caption: “I played until 2028.”
Law, his mother and his girlfriend took a taxi to Law’s home in Tung Chung where his mother prepared him a home cooked meal, Apple Daily reported.
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“I just had a bowl of her soup,” he said. “I think she said there were prawns and some vegetables in the soup. Basically whatever mom cooks is delicious.”
He also had time to share this snap of him hugging his dog who “would not look at the camera”.
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The pair have been granted bail until November 7, which will be their first appearance in appeal proceedings.
After their understandable embrace of some creature comforts, the pair are set to get back to politics together with colleagues from their political party Demosistō, which they founded in the wake of the 2014 Occupy movement.
According to the SCMP, Wong will be among speakers tonight at a rally against controversial plans for a joint-high-speed rail border checkpoint, which would see mainland officials enforce Beijing’s laws on Hong Kong soil.
