Qq Entertainment

One of the benefits of knowing a second language and culture is being able to offer a second perspective or angle of some hidden inside joke, subtlety, that would otherwise go entirely unnoticed except those who get the reference.
So following the demise of the former Man’s Trading Company on Clay Street in SF Chinatown (also known as Man Chi to Canto pop music fans to FOB$ and ABC’s across SF Bay Area that had the best selection and variety of Hong Kong exotic import$, talkin’ about pop AND rock music from A$IA), a smaller imported media store opens up on Grant that sells original pressings, ironically next to various tourist bazzars and shops that peddle cheaper CD/​DVD/​VCD counterfeits straight outta China.
The store is QQ Entertainment, and as the first reviewer has already said, a small storefront with a good selection of the latest Hong Kong pressings of original DVDs (Hong Kong movies, Chinese subtitled Korean and Japanese films) along with some popular titles that have persisted in the past 8 years or more. There are also a bunch of Canto and Mando pop music CDs in the back left corner of the store, but nothing else to write home about.
Both the Chinese and English name of the store are wacky to say the least.
QQ in at least Taiwanese Mandarin Chinese, refers to the bouncy toothsome texture of food (noodles, starch, even raw squid sashimi). But I suppose it can also somehow strangely mean «cute» or «miniature». Either way, very misleading. And no they don’t sell tapioca milk teas here.
The Chinese name of this place is «Fung Wah», and it can be debated that the owner is a big fan of and perhaps inspired by former one hit wonder Kenneth Choi Fung Wah, whose claim to fame was in 1986 with a hit single called «Absolute Emptiness»
This song (and his most well known one) came out during a time when Hong Kong pop music had NO originality whatsoever, and they relied on the latest Japanese pop music to copy (ahem EMULATE), then write Chinese lyrics over. So yes, I believe the original music of this Absolute Emptiness was from a Japanese song. The video is funny too, some doofus (the singer, no disrepect to the character he’s trying to play), is sitting in a café, kind of pseudo stalking his ex who has moved on, and in a way torturing himself, and writing a song to solace himself. Check out the 1980s hairstyle on that chick, totally Flashdance and Expose, I’d dump her ass too and move on.
Ironically, this «Absolute Emptiness» song gets frequent rotation at A$N karaōke bars and private rooms. Strange, considering you and your drinking buddies want to have good social times, not depress the f**k out of each other.

This is my second stop whenever I go for my VCD runs. Now this place isnt very big and they dont have that much to choose from. They mainly carry new movies and what not and most of the time they have one of those new movies playing on their TVs.
But what I like most about this place is that they have a pretty decent selection of korean/​japanese vcds. As much as I like VCDs I dont know a whole lot of places to purchase the Japanese/​Korean ones. So this is the only store I would know of. Anyhow though the prices here are just about the same as AsiaStar sometimes cheaper sometimes more expensive.
Also the extra star is for the fact that they carried my teacher Jacky Cheung’s Concert DVD and the Soft Hard VCD…
Oh you guys didnt know?
Jacky Cheung is my teacher. he taught me how to sing! kakakaka
Im full of bs i know…