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Published: November 1st 2012
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Second last day, and its time to really do a push for last minute shopping. Hong Kong must have a mall or shopping centre on every block I dont know how you would ever get bored here. Its is full on pouring rain and we buy an umbrella from a street vendor. My mission was simple, winter clothing. There are a ton of stores, and we spend the whole day shop hopping. Its hard to picture winter at all when I have been so hot all week and sleeping with air conditioning on full blast. I must say when I have my mind set to something, I really do it. My visa really got the work out i have been training it for. In the morning I lay my treaures out on my bed. I dont know how i will fit it all into my luggage.
So agenda for the last day, dim sum, egg tarts, minor shopping and celebrating halloween. The day starts off cloudy and cool. The coolest its been since getting here. The temperature is perfect and the rain is minimal which is great since yesterday it poured. We have reservations at cuisine cuisine. Its a restaurant
in the Mira hotel known for their innovative dimsum. We do some walking around before hand to work up our appetite. Its really fancy, and the type of restaurant i like to think of as sparkling wine pretending to be champagne. Its expensive for dim sum, the restaurant was fairly empty when we came, there was an abundance of wait staff, but we didn't get our tea for 10 min. The dim sum was all you can eat from a menu you can order from. we got the usual suspect with a couple different others and they dim sum was good, not the best ive had by far. when the dim sun came it came as one dumpling. It was weird.for the price and the quality I would say this was not worth it. we poured out own tea until a staff member kinda realized, oh thats my job, and took over. but the sweet potato crispy bun was good.
Next stop is back to the Yun kee milk company again . i order the chocolate pudding cold this time, and a double steamed milk pudding to go for breakfast. I will definitely miss this!
Our last day
I vote Tai cheong the best
This egg tart is the best one ive had in Hong Kong. It has a shortbread crust as opposed to a flaky crust, both which i love, but this one won me over ends with a visit to Lan kwai fong. Its a busy night life district in hongkong. Everywhere in hong kong is decorated with halloween paraphanila. My assumtion would be that they will be going crazy for our holiday, and my interest is piqued. We arrive and police are setting up barriers on the street. Already the small area is swarmed with people. I can see where all the american and British tourists have been hanging out. I see a couple people dressed up in costume. A lot of chinese people are flocking to the area, not dressed up, but full on fitted with cameras and flash. They move like thick lava thru the streets, slow and dense. I dare not even enter the crowd, and as soon as we do we get stuck in its stream. I yank us out and take us to the side Where we can safely observe. And this is my conclusion. I think that this crazy Halloween holiday has stretched out its fingers and touched Hong kong. It has excited its young and made curious the older. So in this area, i think north american and British tourists started dressing up to not feel home
sick. It created this frenzie within the chinese people and word began to spread. These crazy people go to Lan keai fong and dress up like dead people. Lets go! So throngs of people come and swarm the area, not fully understanding the concept, and like paparazzi to kim kardashian, light bulbs flash and crowd those in costume. I see crowds forming, cameras clcking franticly, i think, what is it a celebrity? I glance over the shoulders in the crowd. It merely some american guys with lame costumes on. Im sure ones just wearing a wig. I scoff. Thats not worth taking pictures of, but the chinese people love it! Im slightly disappointed. Maybe in a couple years it will take off the way it has back home. Thats my favotite part of halloween. Seeing other people creativity. Ive had enough with these crowds. I move on.
Last night last meaL..we stop at this restaurant we find out of nowhere. It as soe very authentic dishes as well as i can see cured meats including lup cheung hanging in the window. My travel partner wants the black chicken ginseng soup. I just want vegetable. Boring i know. Her soup
My "continental "breakfast
This was their version of continental breakfast. Fried fish with baked beans over pumpkin squash, scrambled eggs and toasted roll with butter. And of course milk tea comes and smells like wet dog and has a huge black chicken foot with nails still on. I like dim sum chicken feet, this is....... I dont even know.
Our trip wouldnt be complete without one last dersert stop. Especially since i plan on giving up food once i get back. I will miss the desert houses which are many and open late and always packed. Always tofu desert or sago, ( which s similar to tapioca but from a different plant). Life would be good but dangerous if we had desert houses. Better to enjoy it here.
So Hong Kong is over. I did enjoy my time, not sure if I would come back. The shopping was amazing, love the desert houses, easy to get around. But on the con side, the pollution was unnerving, the crowds were crazy, ( and im a faux new yorker at heart) i dont regret coming it was a food experience but now to fix the damage done both to my body and my credit card.
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