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| Victoria Peak
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In Charter Garden, kids waiting for a parade.
I took this picture
on my way to the Peak Tram.
| The Peak Tram (actually a funicular).
| Up and up.
| Look at the angle at which we were climbing.
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| Looking down from the mall at the upper terminus into the fog.
| Some people live at the top.
| Looking at the south-west side of the island, at Pok Fu Lam and its
reservoir.
| Another view south, this one taken substantially higher on the peak.
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| A 360 degree panoramic movie from the same place. Note the open-air
building for relaxation as well as the nearby park (visible 40 seconds
in).
| A typical scene along the peak circle loop. It's a pretty walk.
| Often, the trail sided against moss-covered stones. I think they're so
cool, I'm marking this as excellent.
| A typical view down into the forest beneath the trail.
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| Some mid-level apartment buildings visible through the fog.
| Later, the north-west of the island: the Western and maybe the Central
districts just visible before the fog entirely rolled in.
| You know the top of the International Financial Center Two (IFC2) that I
previously
lost in the clouds? Well, I found it peeking out of the fog.
| An India rubber tree above the path. It resembles a banyan tree. View
the full-sized image and revel in the excellent details.
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| Ditto. Also excellent. (I couldn't decide if I liked the picture
better with the people or without so I kept them both.)
| Another attempt, this one on the way down, at capturing the steepness of
the funicular train.
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| Lunch at Yung Kee Restaurant
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| The front of Yung Kee Restaurant, my lunch destination. It's a large
(multiple levels), packed, bustling space.
| Roasted meats in the window.
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I was amused to see six pages of awards at the front of the menu.
| Roasted goose over rice. Notice the thick layer of fat sometimes between
the skin and the meat. I found the skin delicious, the fat skip-able
(surprising given how great I've been finding the fat in some pork dishes
I've had recently in Hong Kong), and the meat--what little there
was--fairly good.
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| Preserved egg with pickled ginger. The yolk had a weird stickiness that I
found off-putting but I nevertheless liked the flavor of it with the
white. I'm surprised (that I liked it). As for the pickled ginger, it was
sweet. Strange. I'm not a fan.
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| Wan Chai
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| The enormous H.K. Convention & Exhibition Centre. The part of the centre
at right (where it looks like the building has no supports) is actually
above water.
| A panoramic movie that initially looks west at the Central's district's
skyline (along on Hong Kong Island) then looks across the harbour at
Kowloon's skyline. For reference, the first tall building is the
International Financial Centre 2 (in Central) and the second is the
International Commerce Centre (in Kowloon).
| People fishing in the harbour.
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| Causeway Bay
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A panorama of Causeway Bay's skyscrapers as seen from near the Hong Kong
Convention Centre.
(Causeway Bay is on this side of the harbour, on
Hong Kong Island.)
| The crowd by the Causeway Bay metro station.
| An arbitrary pedestrian street in the Causeway Bay shopping district.
| A fresh juice stand. I had a fresh kiwi juice, which was good. I knew it
was fresh because, besides being in a blender, I could see seeds and taste
the pulp.
Di Yin, waking up one morning a month later, looked at my
screen to see what I was viewing, saw this picture, and thought it was
taken in Singapore. :)
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| The gigantic Times Square mall. It's so large I had to take two pictures
and stitch them together like a panorama.
| Not only does Times Square have nine floors of stores around the central
atrium (visible in the previous picture), there are four floors of
restaurants on top of those and, furthermore, four floors underground
(two for a big department store, one for a supermarket, and another one
for shops).
| Another street in Causeway Bay. This is Russell Street, which runs in
front of the Times Square mall.
| On the walk from Causeway Bay to Victoria Park, I began seeing Indonesian
domestic help workers gathered everywhere on the sidewalks, in this case
under an overpass. It's their day off.
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