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| Breakfast at Macau Restaurant
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| The entrance to Macau Restaurant, where we had breakfast. The restaurant
was entirely underground.
| The part of the restaurant where we ate felt like a diner.
Incidentally, it's a large restaurant.
| Congee with fish and peanuts. Pretty okay. The fish had tons of bones,
not small ones like typical fish bones but large ones like cow ribs.
The shu mai were sub-par.
| I had option #E: dried (chai2) fish (yu2) peanuts (hua1 sheng1) pig (zhu1)
bone (gu3) congee/porridge (zhou1) with (pie4) fish (yu2)
fluffy/minced/soft (rong2) shu mai (shao1 mai4).
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| Elsewhere in Kowloon
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| A half-cactus, half-tree Di Yin spotted in Kowloon Park. I think you need
to view the full-sized image to see what I mean.
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| Lunch at Happy Valley Jockey Club
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| The Happy Valley Jockey Club restaurant looked like any big Chinese
restaurant.
| The tea was so good--the best straight tea I've had in at least a
year--that I had to take a picture of it to record this fact.
| "Deep fried taro puffs with diced pork and shrimps."
| Fried pork. Very tasty. We didn't need the dipping sauce.
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| Soup.
| Stir-fried soft shell crabs.
| "Pan fried turnip pudding with preserved meat." Basically turnip cake
with little bits of meat inside. Definitely better than the last
time I tried this in Hong Kong.
| "Bean curd sheet rolls with chicken in supreme sauce."
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| Steamed items: shrimp dumplings (far), barbecue pork buns (middle), and
some kind of vegetable bun (close).
| Steamed rice flour rolls with beef and enoki mushrooms.
| A strange creamy vegetable salad, the only bad item in the line-up.
| Baked salt-encrusted chicken. This was amazing, moist and flavorful.
Easily comparable to Zuni's famous roasted chicken in San Francisco,
perhaps even better.
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| Sweet red bean soup for dessert.
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They also ordered chinese egg tarts (what turned out to be enormous)
and mango puddings.
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| Wan Chai
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| A random show we found in what's called the Southern Playground in the Wan
Chai district.
| A sample street in the Wan Chai district.
| This market area is called the Tai Yuen Street Market but, as it
encompasses many streets, is often simply called the Wan Chai Street
Market.
| Another market street. Lots of clothes.
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The nearby food street mostly sells raw ingredients such as fish and
produce.
I like the lights.
| Live, flopping fish for sale.
| I found an indoor, cleaner food market nearby. Here are some of the
colorful fruit stands.
| A panorama of the Pak Tai Temple.
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| A tall, foreboding tree in the temple's courtyard. (I think it's
foreboding because it has few branches and leaves. The old apartment
buildings in the background also help.)
| A vertical panorama of an old banyan tree, also in the temple's courtyard.
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The temple prohibited photography inside, which was fine with me because I
thought it looked garish.
| Behind the temple, I found this tree growing out of the stone, with its
root structure flush and clearly visible against the wall. It makes me
think of a biology textbook's depiction of a tree's structure.
Ignore
the horse.
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| The small Hung Shing Temple was built on top of a huge boulder.
| Three Pacific Place, one building in a high-end complex with malls and
housing, has an enormous statue in its sculpture in its lobby. I had
trouble figuring out what it was, but know that I recognized it as a face,
I see the face instantly when I look at the picture.
| Lockhart Road, a lively area for a-bit-edgy nightlife.
| It wouldn't be Hong Kong without shops with roasted meats hanging in the
window. I walked by this store, then realized it was one of the most
respected roasted meat vendors in the city--hence the line in
mid-afternoon--and returned to photograph it.
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