Travelog for: Rendolph

Behind me is the Avenue of Stars in Tsim Sha Tsui Seaside,
it was built to thanks the helps and efforts and outstanding performance of the film stars.

The statue is the sculpture of the trophy of HK Film Festival. 

While waiting for the ferry, we wandered around the pier.
We go upstairs and found this exhibit.
All three of us tried to be a good captain too! 

Behind me is the Hong Kong Cultural Centre,
it's big and with some sculptures as decorations,
take a look of the ceiling, many lights too! 
There's also a model of the building, with the open plaza and Clock Tower~
Don't you think the open plaza look like a human eye? 

And then we went home by bus, a double deck one,
there are 4 televisions in each bus, 2 on the upper deck, and 2 on lower deck.
See the black thing on the yellow handrail?
We just need to press it,
then the driver will know someone need to get off the bus.

Guess where did I go today?
A chinese park! Everywhere is full of unique chinese style,
and something should not be missed - rock lion!! 
Though they have a fierce face, they are all very friendly~
They even gave all of us a ride, cool!
They all got different gestures, styles and accessories~

Some of them have a round rock in their mouth,
it is for luck and something good,
also known as some gems or pearl in the reality.

There are also some bonsai plants too, can you see dragon crafted on the pot? 

Wooowwwwwoooowwwwow!!!!!! 
What an exciting adventure today! 

At the beginning, three of us found a huge footprint on the sand,
but we have no idea of what kind of animal it is.

And later! The land began to shake like having earthquakes,
I turned around and saw... a dinosaur! 

I was so scared at first but then found that they are all so friendly~
We wandered around the place and saw many of them,
they all have an extremely big foot (when comparing with ours!),
we had to be very careful or else will become a piece of paper.

There are some lovely babies~  And some flying ones.
We walked and walked, suddenly, two dinosaurs started to fight,
it is very dangerous and we don't want to be hurt,
but we ran too slow and luckily that Etwas picked us and flew up to the sky.
After the fight is over, we stopped on a big mushroom and took some rest.

It's cool to be so near with the dinosaurs and their skeletons! 

On 23rd August this year, it's ghost festival, that the gate of ghost world will open.

Therefore, some booth were set for people to worship,
and feast were set for those hungry ghosts. 
Some masters who who dressed in black were there to lead the prayer.

From the wall paintings, it shows some Chinese gods.
Paper props were made for the burning ceremony too.
People believed that after burning, the ghost will receive the things. 

Other than booth for parying, booth for feast,
there's also a booth of chinese opera. 

The costumes seems quite heavy and complicated,
I have never seen all these before. 

Though I don't know the language,
it's still good to enjoy the show~ 

I see monsters!!! 
Glad that they stand still and couldn't move...

Next to the monsters, there stood a hi-fi elephant.
It's much nicer and invited us to have a sit on its long nose~ 

Today's special is - fishball wonton noodles! 
Wontons are delicious, yummy~

Then... time for ice cream!! 

We went to work with Vi today,
we were there quietly and didn't mess around, 
so we were rewarded with a peach jelly from japan.
Peach is pronounced as 桃 - "Tou" here,
and in japanese, it is pronounced as "momo"
yumyum, tasty momo jelly~ 

Street snacks day~

"Mongkok" means "crowded corner", as it is named,
it is really the crowdest place here.

Various kind of shops, restaurants can be found here,
other than these, there are street snacks!
You can find a lot to eat!

1) Siu Pan (baked chinese pancake with pork fillings)
2) fried vegetables (stuffed with fish) and sausages
3) potato chips with sour cream

The blue shop sells japanese octopus ball,
the black one sells potato chips,
the black one with lantern sells siu pan,
and finally comes the chicken kidney... not bad! 

This is the Ladies' Market,
there are thousands choice of stuffs,
souvenirs, paintings, bags and clothes...
let's go shopping~ 

(look at the sky and you will see we really spend some time here~)

We aere at the art museum and playing around on a sculpture.
The shapes are funny and we have no idea of what they are.
This is inspired by the chinese of early times,
the words at that ytime looks similar to shapes and drawings.

Behind us is the Space Museum, maybe I will visit it next time~ 

This is an exhibition called  "Legendary Mongolia" at Cultural Centre.
There's a big yurt, the home of Mongolian,
as they are nomads, they used this kind of portable house,
which is felt-covered, with wood lattice-framed dwelling structure.

There's also a mongolian sheep! 
Both of us have nice horns~ 

Inside the yurt, some mongolian clothes were displayed,
the brown one is a water bottle~
The carpet down there is a nice craft too. 

On the other side,
I saw the most important musical instruments of the Mongolian people.
The Morin Khuur, a string instrutment fiddles with a horse's head.
There are some legends of the origin of the Morin Khuur,
you can take a look and hear its sound here.

Today we found a nice box in the kitchen.
All of us have no idea of what it is,
so we opened it to see what's inside.

And we found, mooncakes~
It's Mid-Autumn Festival today,
a festival for enjoying the moon together. 
There are lanterns decorations everywhere too~