HK Impressions


When someone says "Hong Kong", what's the first thing that pops in your head?

The famous signboards as seen in movies?
They're big and in-your-face, but they're the perfect representation of the aggressive business style of the people in HK.



The signature night view of sparkling skyline?
When it's in front of you, you can't help but keep clicking the shutter on your camera.









Yummy dim sum dishes?
Sun Sui Wah in Richmond BC is good; but dim sum in HK "is so good you might just accidentally swallow your tongue" (an old Chinese expression talking about how tasty something is).


How about this dude?
You've got to think of him when you hear "Hong Kong."





Our trip in Hong Kong has all this and more.

The Legend
To start off, we had pleasant encounters with the legendary Mr. Bruce Lee!
TWICE!








The View from the Window








We stayed at the Y, which is right next to the famous Peninsula Hotel, which means we got to enjoy a view of the harbor right outside our windows without paying through the nose for it. The traffic on the water is not any better than the traffic on land: constant movements of all kinds of boats in different sizes zipping through the water in all directions. They "honk" at each other too.









I'm also impressed by the creativeness in construction here.
We need more land? No problem! Let's get some dirt from the bottom of the harbor and use it as new land. In fact, why don't we build a brand new water front while we're at it?
You live halfway up the mountain and you don't want to climb gazillion stairs just to get home? No problem! We'll build you tiers and tiers of escalators so you can easily go from the bottom to the top and everywhere in between.













Call me crazy but I kept feeling as if some of these enormous office buildings were gonna come alive and turn into robots (like transformers).
We were there on a weekend. I can't imagine what it must be like when the streets and walkways are replaced with seas of people in suits.














Surprisingly, among all the glass and steel, there are places that offer tranquility and opportunities to settle your mind from sensory overload.

The Zoo
We stumbled into the zoo on the way down to the ferry terminal.
Yes, a free zoo in the middle of the metropolis. Who would've thunk?!

S/He was OUT!
But then again, it was in the middle of one hot and stuffy Saturday afternoon. What's better to do other than taking a little afternoon nap?



The flamingos....... so beautiful yet so weird-looking.
Half of them came out front when we were there, had a bit to eat, and did their little dances. Then one of them said something and everyone lined up to go to the back.
They did so like well-trained ballet dancers.



It was entertaining enough to watch the lemurs play, but I let out a cry of excitement when Bill pointed out the kitty cat. It came to visit some kind of small animal in the other cage. All the lemurs were watching the cat very carefully. Maybe they were thinking, "Hey, how come the cat could be out there and we have to stay in this stinking box?"

There was a cheetah in the zoo as well, but she was unavailable when we visited her.
She was taking her beauty nap.

The Greenhouse
After wandering around the zoo in the heat, we were elated to find that the greenhouse was cooled with air conditioning.

























Aren't they pretty?!


The Peak






The weather was blah~~~


The ride on the tram was fun.

The view from the top was spectacular.



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