Wo bu shuo Guangdong hua! Part 3

Hong Kong!  I love Hong Kong!  When I first went there, I fell in love with the place almost immediately.  There's so much to see! There's so much to do!  Lots of sights, lots of sounds.

李小龍 (Lee Xiao Long).  You know his English name.

Last time, I stayed with my father at a hotel.  This time, however, I stayed at the infamous Chungking Mansions.  My mom emailed me and told me that she stayed there back in the 70s with my grandmother and great-grandmother.  It was a filthy hole-in-the-wall dung heap back then, and to a certain extent it's kept a bit of that.  I was also tipped off that it has been deemed one of the dirtiest and most dangerous place to stay in all Hong Kong, for its reputation of vice is without compare in the city.

I actually didn't think it was all that bad.  Okay, a fight broke out between a security guard and a drunk ass foreigner, and the internet place tried to sucker me into paying more than they deserved, the various "businessmen" surrounding the place were so sketchy and pissed me off a number of times, a couple having loud rough sex was making it difficult for me to sleep, and the main floor often smelled like Chinese washroom.  But other than that, it was fine.  The guest house I was at was ran by a Chinese woman and a cleaned by a short Filipina.  She kept the rooms quite clean.

My HK Mansion.

The Chungking Mansions was just a place to rest.  I was in Hong Kong to bask in the glory of my favorite city in East Asia, although I'm really not all that sure if it's my favorite anymore.  Not after Tokyo.

The first thing I did was to meet my friend Stephanie, who works at a school in a different part of China.

 

OMG, soy sauce ready on the table.  You never see this in Wuhan!

 

Of course, the next thing was to get my eat on because HK food is so effin' delicious.  Canto food is a lot more similar to Chinese Canadian.  Bland to Mandarin standards.  But eats in HK reminded me more of home than of the spicy and oily dishes of Central China.

Wonton Noodle Soup, Biatch!

From Kowloon we went to Central via the Star Ferry.  After crossing, we ran into a beer and wine kiosk.  I got myself a stout beer to drink as I walked around town.  Compared to Wuhan, however, it was tai gui le.

Beer Kiosk

Buying HK egg tarts (|Macauan ones are  far superior IMO)

Walked around for a while until we arrived in SoHo, the foreigner's food haven.  Went to a Spanish restaurant and had seafood paella and rioja (my favorite wine).  I think the place was run by Pinoy (Filipinos).

Great first day with a friend and lots of flavorful food in the city that raised the immortal Bruce Lee.