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| Victoria Park
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| A map of Victoria Park. It has both recreation and relaxation areas.
| Another picture of Indonesian domestic help gathering on their day off.
They were everywhere, including this plaza-width walk on the edge of
Victoria Park.
| More workers, picnicking in another square at the end of Victoria Park.
| From an overpass near Victoria Park, looking east toward Tin Hau (away
from Causeway Bay). It's a good sample of Hong Kong's apartment
buildings.
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| A foliage sign promoting Hong Kong's participation at the World Expo in
Shanghai.
| A typical view in the park. Taken from near the topiary garden.
| A 360 degree panoramic movie within the topiary garden in Victoria Park,
and also a chance to see and listen to the burbling of the Indonesian crowd.
| Many families walked in their socks on the "pebble walking trail". I
wouldn't call them pebbles (rather stones) but, regardless, I imagine it's
a neat feeling for one's feet.
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The "floral clock". Twelves bushes in a circle, one for each hour. It was
sponsored by the watch company Omega (notice the logo made of bushes that
surrounds the clock).
Hidden in the upper-right of this photograph are Indonesians dancing.
Sorry, I didn't feel comfortable taking a picture from closer, but I
wanted some photographic evidence that some Indonesian workers danced
during their free day.
| I thought the "model boat pool" would be a quite, peaceful place.
Rather, it's noisy: tiny boats race like speed-boats, skipping at high
speed over the water.
If you look closely at the far right, in the
first second of this video I inadvertently caught a picture of a guy
dropping the second speed-boat in the water to race the first.
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| Dinner at Chuk Yuen Seafood Restaurant
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| Chuk Yuen Seafood Restaurant, our dinner destination.
| We picked out our seafood to have it killed and cooked.
| A part of a crab.
| Another view of the same piece after it'd been pushed open. (It has
already been cut for us.)
Di Yin recalls it was nothing special, perhaps being dry.
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| Fried tiny lobsters or perhaps crayfish piled in roasted garlic. I
thought they were good, and Di Yin ate a ton of these (yet a few weeks
later only remembered them as alright), but I couldn't help mentally
comparing them unfavorable to a similar dish
(though made with scallops) I had in San Francisco.
| Scallops.
| Abalone. Abalone is good. These, together with the ones I ate the previous day,
made me decide I want to eat abalone more. Di Yin says this abalone was
fantastic.
| Razor clams. This was the first time Di Yin had razor clams in any form
and she loved them, calling them delicious. She said they were very
fresh and succulent and had a good amount of chewiness and took in the
right amount of sauce. Plus, they were the perfect size to eat.
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| Steamed fish. Okay.
| Green vegetable. Had a bit of an odd flavor. Did they use fermented
tofu?
| A seafood rice casserole. A soothing, comfort food. It reminded me of
a dish I used to order at a Chinese restaurant in Mountain View, CA,
around the time I graduated. I liked that dish a lot.
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To drink, I had cooked sugarcane juice (not as good as the cool version
served in Singapore) as well as hot rice wine into which was dropped a
dried sour plum.
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| Dessert: acanthus flower jelly over coconut jelly. Reminds me of kueh.
| Close-up.
| My tofu blossom (dou4 hua1) dessert. I've been keeping an eye out for
this for a long time because I wanted to try it. It's basically a
pudding made from very soft tofu that we then lightly sweeten with a
sugar sauce. I found it nothing special, perhaps even a little boring.
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| Fodder for Panorama of Causeway Bay
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| Fodder for Times Square Mall Panorama
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