I went there last week and loved it, haven't been back since I left.
Here are the "some of" the photos.
So we left at 2:30 English time, didn't really do a direct straight line flight, more a little curve and missing India and coming in from China so flew over the Himalayas at 37k feet.
There's a whole chicken chopped up on the table, sweet and sour pork, Roast Goose (bottom right), and lots of other random nice stuff, actually ran out of room on the table for food, all went down nicely with a glass of cold lemon tea.
Next morning, we went to see my dad's mother for the day and visited the local market where fished get sliced down the center leaving the heart still beating (to show that it's fresh), other fish kept in shallow waters with a air pump into the water, meat hang on a hook, live chicken in cages, RSPCA will have a field day but it's everyday life over there.
One of the thing i missed in living in England is food, and the bakery is the best example. Every bakery can knock out cakes like these, no matter how small and they are like £7/8 each for the large ones, something i've not seen here unless i went to Fortune & Mason and it'll cost like £50 in there. I find it ironic that Chinese can bake better than the English.
Next day after we went to apply for the ID card we head for Lunch in Kowloon (btw, all through the week, that seems all I did, go here, eat, head over there, eat...repeat). We went to what I can only describe as a Chinese/Hong Kong Version if McD's went Chinese food. It's fast food that you pick up from the counter and self serve. But the prices were silly, my sister got Roast pork with veg, rice with soup and a drink for about £2 ! The pics here shows the menu which changes literally all the time as they are just plates hang on the wall and the prices goes up for evening service by about £1 per meal.
(exchange rate is about $15 to £1)
After that we headed to or stumbled upon Harbor City, what I can only describe as the poshest shopping mall in the history of mankind, it feels like you'll need a mortgage just to set foot in there. Shops by Vivian Westwod, Jimmy Choo, Jean Paul Gaultier, Versace, Dior, Prada, CK, Gucci, D&G, Louis Vuitton...etc, just designer boutiques everywhere, and a food hall that supercedes M&S's and then mix it with lots of Asian designer shops plus lots of little gift shops and small food and cafe shops all spread the bottom 2 floors along buildings on the length of a street. Hong Kong Malls are mostly build like that, the skyscrapers at the top for offices or flats and the bottom 2/3 floors are shops, you can spent you entire day shopping without setting foot outside on the street and then back home/work, even across the streets are linked with enclosed bridges all with air con.
