Showing posts with label Parents. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Parents. Show all posts

Monday, September 5, 2011

Di da di da di da Lijiaaang!

Lijiang Old Town by night


Stayed in a really quiet and contemplative hotel called Zen Garden.

Dad dancing with a bunch of grandmas next to a mountainside temple.


Some of the more "adventurous" cuisine in Lijiang Old Town.  Jim tried the roasted grasshoppers.  I tried one.  Feels like eating shell-on shrimp.


Chilling out in an expat haunt.


Some beautiful Naxi artwork

Mom and I at a Naxi minority shrine and heritage museum. Somehow it reminded me of the Burnaby Village Museum.



All photos on this post courtesy of my mom.


Friday, August 12, 2011

Starting Year 2: HK and Macau with the 'Rents

I'm back in Asia!  Back on the road of living another exciting year as a Canadian expat!  Starting Year Two off in Hong Kong with my family friend Jim and my parents. About a week ago, we landed in HK in the morning and went directly to our hotel at Causeway Bay.

Causeway Bay area

If you know me, you'll know that Hong Kong is one of my favorite cities the world over.  I love eating there.  I love the organization and cleanliness.  I love their subway.  I even love reading the business news every morning in HK...and this time it was really REALLY interesting with Asian markets plummeting.  I guess the only downside to HK is that it's a shopping city that's really expensive.


At the Star Ferry in  Central


Anyways, to sum up (since I'm writing this from Kunming, Yunnan and don't have time to linger on blogging), I showed my parents and Jim around the city from Lantau to Kowloon, Wanchai to SoHo.  For my own sanity, however, I demanded to go to the part of HK that I've never seen before: HK Island South.

The 'rents on a sampan in Aberdeen.




Aberdeen

St. Stephen's Beach in Stanley

That's more or less it in a nutshell.  Tomorrow, I relocate to Lijiang.  If I can get wi-fi at the place I'm staying at, then I might tell you about my travels to Macau with my parents. 

Year Two has started! I look forward to the next few weeks.  So many exciting things happening...travelling Yunnan province, going to Shanghai to see friends, and going back to Wuhan with wo de mama so she can meet Cathy.

I'll leave you with pictures of some dishes I've had in Hong Kong.