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Things that I'll miss while I'm in Japan:

British/European stuff includes -

watching Wimbledon and the French Open on BBC
The Bridgewater Hall and the Halle and the BBC Philharmonic
London and its shops
Royal Opera House
London Symphony Orchestra and the Barbican
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and the Royal Albert Hall and the Cadogan Hall
Waitrose
Hampstead Heath
the V&A
National Portrait Gallery
the British Museum
Tate Britain and Tate Modern
the Hummingbird Bakery
the British accent - Received Pronounciation
and the Scottish accent (excluding Glaswegian accent)
Lyme Park
the Lake and Peak Districts
Marmite rice cakes and flatbreads
Sunday roast (with Yorkshire pudding please!)
Christmas lunch (with cranberry chutney and brussel sprouts)
Quavers

Nando's

the pub
Walkers Sensation crisps
Curry from the Curry Mile
Haggis
Deep-fried Mars bars

cullen skink
Laduree macarons
Fish and chips with mushy peas

Vogue, Harper's Bazaar, Teen Vogue
H&M (they have H&M in Japan too - but only 2 stores in Tokyo)
ability to hop over to continental Europe on budget airlines
how quite a lot of things are cheaper than Japan

And the Hong Kong/Chinese stuff -

Shanghaiese food, especially 鸡丝粉皮，小笼包 and 素鹅
stinky tofu
Hong Kong/Cantonese desserts
Peking duck (not the British "crispy duck")
the cheap markets that sell every single specie of fruit and veg and seafood
Chinese soup (老火汤 - those that have been boiled for many hours)
the cheap, quick and efficient MTR (subway/train system)
close proximity with mainland China and its beautiful provinces
how (almost) everything is cheaper than Japan
the Octopus card (HK's equivalent of the Oyster card - the Octopus card is the first of its kind; issued in 1997 compared to Oyster card's 2003; Octopus is also used to pay in supermarkets, shops and cafes)
congee (rice porridge) and 炸两

my parents, Sam

this list will be updated regularly - as soon as I can think of things that I'll miss