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| In the elevated walkway above Cochrane Street is a series of escalators,
rising up into the hills, a total half a mile in length.
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I noticed a metro card reader on the escalator that gives a discount on
your next ride the same day. I guess the metro people figured if you use
the escalator you're not taking up space on the train for part of your
journey.
| A sample street in Soho (south of Hollywood Road).
| Sample mid level apartments. There are lots of them. "Mid level" refers
to how high they are based on the hill.
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| Jamia Masjid Mosque.
| Soho looks much more lively once the shops turn their lights on.
| I walked down Hollywood Road west of Cochrane Street passing numerous
antique shops.
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| Dinners
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| Tsim Chai Kee, the restaurant where I had my first attempt at dinner.
| Noodles with prawn wontons and fish balls. Even though the bowl was
small--much smaller than it appears in this picture--the fish balls and
wontons were enormous. Though these wontons were decent, I didn't like
the fish balls at all, the noodles were undercooked, and the broth fell
into the category of "don't drink that! too much msg." I decided to have
another dinner.
| Wah Fung, the roasted meat restaurant where I had my second attempt at
dinner. I took this picture after dinner -- it's too bad the meats
weren't still hanging in the windows at right.
| Roasted spare ribs (top) and roasted duck (bottom) on rice. The former
was delicious and the latter was fairly good as well, with moist meat and
toothsome skin. Both the pork and duck skin were nicely caramelized.
This joint knows what it's doing.
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| Stir fried Chinese vegetable.
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| Scenes from Hong Kong at Night
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| A panorama of buildings at night, pretty decorated.
| I took this movie to prove the lights were animated.
| Kowloon as seen from Hong Kong island.
| The same picture again. Notice how some of the lights have been added or
changed color.
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| The same scene with a longer exposure.
| IFC2 receding into the sky. Excellent.
| A short movie taken from the ferry.
| A panorama of Hong Kong island. It just goes on an on. Sorry, some of
the sections of the panorama are shoddy photographs.
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| A panoramic movie of the same scene of Hong Kong island's skyline.
Excellent because it actually conveys the feel of being there.
| The Clock Tower by the ferry terminus in Kowloon, with the Hong Kong
Cultural Centre in the background. Excellent.
| The Clock Tower during the daytime. (I took this picture the following
day.) This was previously the end of a rail line.
| On the way home, I realized why I don't like Nathan Road -- it's not what
it sells. Rather, I think it's the (excess) brightness and the glitz.
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| Fodder for Hong Kong Daytime Panorama
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| Fodder for Stitched Photo of Jamia Masjid Mosque
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