Travelog for: Michel

There are two well-known heritages in Stanley,
the Blake Pier and the Murray Building.
Both of them were originally locates in Central.

There are now few restaurants inside the Murray Building,
we chose one and had the salad and pizza as afternoon tea~ 

It's the first time for me to take the double deck bus,
it's a bit high to me so I moved in a quite careful way.

But then I found it it's safe indeed, so I started to explore the bus.
All of us were so eager to sit in the first row, yeah!
A little window was there for the driver to keep knowing what's happening up here. 

We passed through the bridges, and guess where's our destination?
It's Mongkok~

It's very good that the bus has a monitor to show the next stop,
it's very good to tourists like us~

The bus also passed through a construction site where bamboo scaffolding was there.

Photos were also taken from the Nathan Road,
the first and longest road in Kowloon.
I was surprised to see all those shop signs on both sides! 

Nathan Road is so crowded that out of my expectation.
I just can't believe my eyes to all those signs! 

I had a very different dinner tonight.

Sushi! I love Salmon~~ 
I even tried to eat by using chopstickes! 

I went to the Ladies Market and there are lots of things to buy there,
clothes, souvenirs, toys, bags, anything you name it.

Vi bought something from the store,
Vi told that she chose it to be the new Regit Brown.
To me, it's just like a little piece of brownies. 

It travelled home with us and we shared a lot of our travels with her.

Desserts day~

I had the chocolate souffle and wraffle with almond ice cream! 
I am not afraid of being fat~
Bears should eat more for storing fats before winter comes, right? 

Good weather~
And just captured this beautiful scene of the Victoria Harbour! 

The first time for me to see Henna!

It's the Indian art of hand drawing,
different from tatoo, you can draw a new one whenever you want to.
Finish the drawing and wait for it to tried,
and here comes the pattern~ 

"dim sum"~ "dim sum"~ Yummy "dim sum"~~~

I had my lunch in a Shangjai Restaurant and tasted the well-known "Xiao Long Bao". 

You can took a glance of the dim sum on the menu.
On the left, it's the Xiao Long Bao (with pork filling),
wow, it's very juicy! 
the middle is the fried turnip roll,
and the left is the pork dumpling.

I tried to eat with chopsticks, but then I decided to use spoon~ hee! 

Other than Ladies' Market, there are also other theme streets in Monkok,
for example, there's the sport shoes street,
what you can find is sport shoes from different brands.

And today I was in another street, the Goldfish Market,
people come here to buy stuffs for their aquarium,
buy food for fish, and other kinds of pets too! 

I saw a store selling "Siu Mei", which means the roasted/ barbecued meat,
usually suckling, chicken or goose,
the food are hanging there and people can tell the chef what they want,
this store is having a traditional style and settings.

It's so colourful and energetic here in Wan Chai.
That's what the buildings tell me. 

On my way to the Blue House Livelihood Exhibition,
I saw many colourful buildings.

The Blue House is well-known for its architectual structure and its historical value.

I even took a photo with the old style postal box too.

Old people tend to stick the picture of Gate God on the door to keep away the bad spirits and evils.

Great dinner with delicious food.

Cold tofu salad, black sesame pork ramen, salmon rice dumpling,
dried puffer fish, fried chicken bone dumpling, edamame bean and so on~

Wow! Looking at me with so many food~ 
Also a banana split as dessert! Cool~~~ 

Finally I had collected a whole set of coins! (HK$)
behind each of them is the bauhinia, flower of Hong Kong.
There are $10, $5, $2, $1, $0.5, $0.2, $0.1,
do you want me to take them home? 

MTR (Mass Transit Railway) Journey day.

MTR is an underground train, just like tube/ bahn/ metro,
it's air-conditioned, fast in speed and almost the main transport of many people.

Take a look of the system map and it's almost all over Hong Kong.

I started my journey at Wan Chai, the calligraphy of the station name is very beautiful.
I like it!  Only the stations of Island Line (blue one) have calligraphy~
Different stations has their own colour as identity.

Got on the train and changed to the Red Line at Admiralty,
finally I arrived Yau Ma Tei, a transition of the Red and Green Line,
it's the beginning of the Green Line.

This is a common street dessert here,
it's tofu pudding, can be serve in both hot and cold.

In the past, they are kept in a wooden pot,
but now usually in steel pot.

Before eating it, you can add some yellow sugar to it,
depends on how sweet you want.
Not adding sugar is also okay, because it's already full of the taste of tofu.

Adding sugar makes it becomes a bit yellow, tastes good~