Click on images below to enlarge:
|
 |
| Kowloon
|
|
|
| St. Andrew's church.
| An attractive building next to the church.
|
|
| Kowloon Park
|
|
|
|
|
| A map of Kowloon Park.
| A movie of young people practicing using a staff with their sifu.
| A movie of old people slow dancing with a sword. Shadow boxing? A form
of tai chi?
| The maze garden is just enough like a maze for me to like it, but easy
enough so that everyone can find it agreeable. Excellent.
|
|
|
|
|
|
| An old man standing on a rock, practicing tai chi.
| A seldom visited trail.
| In the sculpture garden, yet more people practicing tai chi.
Many
people doing similar exercises were scattered throughout the park.
|
There was an adorable old woman here doing Tai Chi but she stopped before
I could take a picture. :(
|
|
|
|
|
|
| A fountain, a big tree behind it, and sculpture in the distance.
| Men reading newspapers. (Yes, this picture is captioned as I intended.)
| Another fountain.
| A man doing an excellent job painting the scene. If you don't believe me,
flip back and forth between the previous photograph and this one.
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Ditto.
| The Hong Kong Heritage Discovery Centre is housed in restored military
barracks. Not surprisingly, it's one of the restoration projects the
exhibit inside describes.
| The roses in the rose garden were in perfect bloom.
| Take this one for instance.
Nominated for excellent.
|
|
|
|
| Or this one.
| More flowers in the park.
|
|
| More Kowloon
|
|
|
|
| Haiphong Road Temporary Market, cooked food section (i.e., a hawker
centre!). Everything was written in Chinese and every person was Chinese.
Yes, it's a mess, but that's because it's the temporary location for the
market.
| I don't know what these poofy petals are that I found on Canton Road.
| A pleasantly uncrowded road (Hankie Road). It's surprising given this
road's proximity to Nathan Road, which is always packed.
|
|
| Lunch at Joy Cuisine
|
|
|
|
|
| I ate a small lunch of dim sum at Joy Cuisine.
| What I ordered. Notice the different prices on the Chinese and English
menus. I had:- 8502: this is "chicken and vegetable bun" but the
Chinese says ginger sauce chicken bun little: jiang1 zhi1 (ginger sauce)
ji1 (chicken) bao3 (bun) zi3 (little)?!
- 8503: the "taro and
roasted meat bun" is xiang1 (fragrant) yu4 (taro) shao1 (roasted) nan3
(brisket/pork-belly) yuan3 (roll).
- 8512: the "scallop and pork
dumpling" says, roughly, in Chinese scallop shu mai: dai4 zi (which Di
Yin says is scallop) shou3 zhuo2 (which Di Yin says is accompanies)
shao1 mai4 (shu mai).
| Taro and roasted meat bun (left) and chicken and vegetable bun (right).
| Scallop and pork dumplings (a type of shu mai).
|
|
| More Kowloon
|
|
|
| A store selling mannequins and (at right, barely visible) clothes hangers?
| Rosary Church.
|
|
| Hong Kong Museum of History
|
|
|
|
|
In the Hong Kong Museum of History.
Brits then were like the Chinese
now?
| Fun jingles.
| A bun tower (explained by the following picture).
| A description of bun towers. They're cool. :)
|
