Sunday, September 27, 2009

I Heart Hong Kong

Last week was another Japanese holiday, so Gen and I went to Hong Kong. I have been looking forward to this trip pretty much the whole year. And it was fantastic! That is the view from near the Star Ferry Pier in Kowloon at sunset. Jealous?
They have a light show here every night at 8:00, but it was pretty hot, so we decided not to wait. We caught it from our hotel later in the week.
There are lots of boats and ferries that cruise the harbor, especially around sunset and for the light show.
After we strolled the promenade, we had dinner at a Sichuan restaurant. It was great, with the exception of kind of a weird appetizer. It was dried and sugar-glazed beef strips. Kind of like a sweet and slightly crunchy jerky. It must be very popular, because we saw a ton of stores selling something similar. Gen tried a sample in the stores and said it was actually better than the restaurant version.
This is Nathan Road, sometimes called the Golden Mile. Lots of shopping. We ended up in two hotels because of some maneuvering with the plane tickets, and this was really close to the first hotel we stayed in.

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