
When I was a baby, my very first steps were across the slippery marble floor in the lobby of the Mandarin Oriental Hong Kong. Eighteen years later, the tailor from the charming boîte on the mezzanine floor fitted me for my prom dress. And just last week, I sat down for brunch in the hotel café to discuss a friend's upcoming wedding, which would be held in one of the upstairs reception rooms. It's not often that a hotel serves as a backdrop for so many of life's events, from the momentous to mundane, but something about the Mandarin Oriental Hong Kong makes it that way, for both locals like myself and visitors.
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