Friday night!! I ditched the office early and met up with Yumiko, one of my oldest and dearest friends whom I haven’t seen in over 15 years! She’s been living in Hong Kong for as long as I’ve been in Tokyo and it was nice to catch up with her. We had some local food and then took the Star ferry to Tsim Sha Tsui on the Kowloon side. This was the first time for me to see the so-called “million dollar night view.” Now, I’ve seen tons of photos of the HK skyline but I have to say that in real life it is magnificent and I was completely in awe at how amazing this nightview really is. Even though the sky was a bit cloudy from the pollution it was still wonderful. Hong Kong people are lucky to have such a perfect skyline. It was fairly late so I missed the laser show. At 8pm all the buildings shoot lasers out into the sky. Sounds really tacky but I want to see it.
We took a walk along the “Avenue of Stars” and finally found the Bruce Lee statue I was looking for (1) This is Bruce is all his glory. Did I tell you Bruce Lee is my hero? Then we headed further down to see the Xmas lights. Yes, there are already lots of Xmas lights everywhere. I can’t get used to the Xmas spirit while it’s 25 degrees. After that we walked around Nathan Road to try some mango pudding (2) Unfortunately, the mango pudding place was out of mango pudding (go figure) so I had this other mango-ish dessert. It was either that or turtle jelly, birdnest pudding or frog sperm drink or something like that…
Tomorrow, I’m on my own and I have the whole day to explore the city!
Fabulous night view photo.
Great photos. The night view shot has an interesting effect–if you see the gap in the clouds as a darker cloud itself, it looks like some looming omen out of a horror flick, almost eminating from that tallest building. Spooky.
That’s a hell of a picture. I love HK
Sweet Jesus! This sky line made me pee a little. What a magnificent view! OK, Hong Kong was first on my list of places to visit outside of Japan, but now maybe some places in Japan just moved down the list …
Yah! I stayed at Tsim Tsha Tsui the 1st time I was in HK, and the very day I landed, a huge demonstration broke out in TianAnMen Square, and there was plenty of support for the students in HK. Is the Omni Marco Polo Hotel still there?
I remembered the row of juice shops just across that hotel. :)
been visiting your blog for quite some time now. do they still have that tsim sha tsui song? i forgot where i heard it though hehe. brings back the memories.