Click on images below to enlarge:
|
 |
| Tai O
|
|
|
|
|
| Near Tai O, the long pier separating the mangroves from the ocean.
| People fishing in the shallow (mangrove) side of the pier.
| Distant houses on stilts. I'll get many closer pictures of these soon.
| Looking back across the mangroves toward, I believe, the mountain I just
hiked down.
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Boats anchored in Tai O's harbor.
| My first glimpse of Tai O proper and its houses on stilts above the creek.
| More rickety buildings on stilts.
| And more, in this case facing out into the ocean.
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Tai O's main street. Notice all the tourists and all the dried seafood
for sale.
| One side street with stands.
| One dried seafood shop. Excellent, not for the quality of the
photograph but for the amount of interesting critters shown in it. View
the full-sized image and be overwhelmed.
| Someone on the street making "Chinese pizza."
|
|
|
|
|
|
| The sign showing the "pizza". It's actually made and looks like a jian
bing, but the ingredients are slightly different. The Chinese in
parenthesis says Chinese-style (zhong1 shi4) pizza (bi3 sa4). I asked
Di yin to translate the other text. She says it means "the perfumed
concubine roll."
| Kwan Tai Temple, one of the many small temples in town. Notice the
detailing on the roof.
| A bonsai-style tree leans over the road in this quiet residential
side-street.
| One of the largest maps I've ever seen, which is most surprising because
the town is so small.
|
|
| Hong Kong Island
|
|
| A relatively typical Hong Kong mall. Quite tall. I like the big
decoration in the main gallery; it's seen a third of the way through the
movie.
|
|
| Dinner at Kwan Kee Claypot Rice
|
|
|
|
|
| My dinner destination, Kwan Kee Claypot Rice, which I selected because it
supposedly made the best claypot rice in Hong Kong. It was still bustling
around 9pm on a Saturday night; I had to wait.
| My "braised chicken and taros cooked in earthware pot." This was nothing
like what I expected -- I expected a dry dish of chicken and rice in a
claypot, not a soupy dish of chicken without rice. Compared to what I
wanted, I mis-ordered: I should've ordered from the "rice cooked in a
Chinese pot" section of the menu rather than "dishes cooked in earthware
pot." (Note: more other tables had my type of pot rather than the other
type, indicating that the type of dish I ordered was the type the
restaurant is known for.) I selected the earthenware pot because the
Chinese characters for the heading were the same as those in the
restaurant's name.
Despite my surprise, the dish was okay/decent,
though it wasn't my thing. The sauce was creamy, likely from lots of pork
fat, and went decently with the steamed rice I ordered on the side. The
chicken was a pain because it had both skin (which I don't like in this
form) and bones. Also, I liked the starchiness of the taro; they made me
think of mashed potatoes with a fatty gravy.
| The menu I ordered from: "Dishes Cooked in Earthenware Pot."
| This is the menu I should've ordered from: "Rice Cooked in Chinese Pot."
|
|
| Fodder for Harcourt Garden Panorama
|
|
|
|
|
| | | |
|
| Fodder for Lantau Island Panorama from Big Buddha
|
|
|
|
|
| | | |
