Wednesday, April 06, 2005Hiking and Exploring around Hong Kong
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Just like I said, there will be multiple postings of blogs coming over the next few weeks. I apoligize if you received the last one twice. Over this past weekend we had an opportunity to do some exploring around HK Island. When we first arrived here the weather was really bad and cold and then as soon as the weather turned good, we traveled out of town. Saturday night we went to Kowloon for dinner and to go to the Temple Street Night Market. (Kowloon is across the harbor from HK Island). There was so much junk for sell at the market. Toys, clothes, electronics, jade, jewelry even dancing vibrators! Yes, dancing vibrators! ![]() ![]() There was also the worst karaoke on earth. Normally when you think of karaoke, you think of music piped through speakers, singers dancing and the music being some sort of top 40 or other recognizable song. Not this one. It had a 5 piece band and the band members were ancient and played badly! The guy singing was even worse then the band. He was singing some sort of Chinese song that was hardly top 40. It was a very pathetic thing to witness! ![]() We then had lunch at this huge floating restaurant. It is called the Jumbo and is known as the most luxurious floating restaurant in the world. It was nice but the food was not the best. When we sat down at our table, Troy proceeded to eat the table decorations. As he uses his chopsticks to pick up these little pieces of green glass he tells Shelly “It’s candy! You’re supposed to eat it!” He quickly found out it wasn’t candy and spit it right out! I think he was trying to find something that he actually tasted good. ![]() 2 Comments:
Much of the "world famous" food served in Hong Kong is seafood. I support your decision not to eat sea creatures if it's important to you, but this is where you're gonna miss out on some of the best food in Asia. By 6:31 PM , atOh, don't get us wrong, we eat seafood. We just don't like to eat reef fish and the like. We eat lots of open water fish that is caught w/out damaging the reef :-) You are right, it is most of what is to eat and is better then fatty pork and beef you often find. By Troy & Shelly, at 7:06 PM |