One of my last days here in Hong Kong started with a traditional breakfast/lunch at Time Square on the 10th floor of the shopping center.
DIM SUM are chinese buns filled with either meat, seafood, egg, vegetables or beans. The can be either sweet, salty or savery. Usually there are 3 pieces per served round bamboo pot with a lid.
Cost: 10-50HK$ per dish/pot and as I said there are sweet and savery dim sum and sometimes quite difficult to order without any picutes on the menu for us "westerners" but thankfully it is very comment that there is the english translation underneath the chinese writing on the menu.
The ordering process involves boxes you have to "tick on"or write the nr. of pots you would like to order. Further on, after this process, you have to hand this list in and wait for your dim sum.
Here is a list of deliciouse dishes me and my Austrian friend tried and ordered:
BBQ pork buns
vegetable buns
sweet egg buns
bean lion buns
egg panda buns
marshmallow rabbits
shrimp buns and some additional joy sam vegetable i stead of rice.
(See images)
After this delicious lunch, my local HK-chinese friend Evie joined us. I know her from my BA studies in London and we were flatmates in 2nd year at LCC as we shared a house SE of the river themse.
However, we decided to take the "bumpy" but fun pulic mini bus from Time Square to Stanley market.
The rides are very cheap (10HK$) and only 10-15people fit into one of them.
Mini buses are one if the fastest transports in HK. It is quite difficult for "not locals" to get on and off them. First of all you need to know where they stop, where they go to go and second : most of the time you need to shout it in chineses when and where you want to get off.
Our mini-bus jouney isn't too difficult as the starting point was Time Square and the last stop is Stanley, so we didn't have to shout anything in order to get off.
It is fascinating how much you get to see from the island once you'r on this mini bus nr.40 such as the coast of HK, 3 beaches on it's way to the market, which are only 15 min away after leaving the hectical city life. It is up to you if you would like to hop off or just stay in the bus.
Once you reaches the last stop we decided to discover the market and a few restaurants first and ended up walking to a wonderful, hidden tropical beach on the very left side of stanley where we decided to chill for the rest of the afternoon.
The water is very clear and clean on these beaches, well at least it looks like and people do go swimming. (See pictures)
After taking the mini bus back (Nr.40) to HK it was around 7pm and we decided to take the MTR to the TST cost side of HK(mainland) as every evening at 8pm is "the symphony of lights " a lightshow of the skyescrapers supported by music and lasers but you can only hear the music from the riverbank of TST (Tsim Sha Tsui).
The show lasts 15 min long and eventho it's not environment friendly to use so much electricity every evening for lasers and flashing lights but nevertheless it dors look very pretty, is entertaining for tourists and the music is perfectly syncronized with the lights on the other side of the skypescraper-panorama.
TST waterfront has a fascinating view on all of the towers, by day and night! Highly recommendable and free!
On this point our evening wasn't compleat as we ended up having "Ramen" back in Causeway bay. (see imge of the food/soupe)
Ramen is a traditional Japanese dish and it is basically a main dish. Soupe with various food of your choice in it. It always comes with noodles but after that you can chooses between seafood ramen, vegetarian, beef, chicken,...etc.
You do it eat with chop-sticks but additionaly you will get a spoon as well, so don't worry if you are not that good in handling slippery food with only 2 sticks ;)
Further on, Evie heard about an illegal Drum and Bass rave on the Kowloon mainland side where we decided to go. *woop*:))
It is not very often that there are things like this happening in Hong Kong, but much more interesting and music orientated than Lan Kwai Fung with all its drunk crazy acting teenagers and David Guetta music. It is fun tho but personally I rather prefer warehouse parties.
However, once we got there we had to climp into a hole to enter the emty carpark location on the backside of the building. It was an "abandend warehouse" which will be removed during the coming month.
The party was on the very top and in front of an old rusty carwash grid left over from better times. It looked like that there are only offices around this area so nobody is complaining about the loud open air music.
The growd was very divers from asian to western, Evie introduced me to some of theme and they were really
nice and friendly.
You had to bring your own drinks as there was no bar and also no toilets only a small garage.oh well...
The space was very open and free. It would have been possible for 100s of ppl to join the rave but there were only about 30-40 (maybe) as the "music-szene" isn't that big as you might think and a lot of young ppl are away for their studies.
Last friday at XXX club weren't more people either than that.
However, all of a sudden the police came!!
I thought we are in big trouble now but instead there were only about 6 police man coming and it ended up in a discussion if the party goes on or not. People where filming the scenario and after 1h of 20people talking to them they decided to let us party!!!! I couldn't believe it! Amazing !!A very understanding police officers said in the end: Oh well we were young once too! after at least 20 ppl were calming him down and convincing him to let us party! WIN !!!
Me and Andre stayed until 4am. I wanted to stay longer as the drum and bass music was brilliant and very up to date from the UK, but I have to check out my hostel room tomorrow at 12noon.
Bye ravers! Have a lovely morning and sunrise-dance!
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