Hello. I'm replaying Shenmue, and I've always wondered this. On Disc 2, when Ryo is trying to get a ticket to Hong Kong, he walks into his room with something on his desk. It gives him a lot of money, but he says "I guess Hong Kong is out".
What is that thing? At first I thought a credit card of sorts, but that wouldn't make a lot of sense. This is before Ryo gets his job, so it's not a check for that.