HK-Day 11-Tuesday
Today was a slow day because we didn’t go to Shenzhen – the company wasn’t able to accept our visit due to the New Years Holiday.
After a 100% Chinese breakfast in a local busy restaurant full of Chinese that I’m still not certain what the meat actually was, we did a little shopping for a friend – sorry Al, the price of the "item" became significantly more when packaging, shipping, insurance were added in. It became US$250-ish. That was much different from the original cost of US$175 (I’m doing the conversions they don’t take US$ here)
After walking out on the ladies trying to rip us off, yet another Indian tried to get me to buy a new custom suit. I’d had enough, so I tried to sell him my US$20 casio watch for US$40. He said, "sure", but couldn’t produce the money. By talking to him, he followed me more than the normal 10 feet. Best just to completely ignore them.
Lunch was 1oo% Chinese again. Jim and I were the only Occidentals in the place, just like breakfast. The soup and duck weren’t to my liking, but the shrimp and dumplings were good. The restaurant was in a mall, that seems to be one of the best places to find good food in HK.
Then we were finally able to visit the HK Museum of Art – I feel cultured now. I tried to capture the artist information after each picture. We weren’t allowed to photograph many of the rooms and even where we were allowed, only 10% of the art is captured. There’s just so much that I don’t find interesting. My feet hurt and Jim started feeling sick so it was straight home in the mid-afternoon.
I put my feet up, ate the remaining sugar candy since it can’t be brought into the USA and had a short siesta. (added later – now that I’ve traveled more, I know that candy CAN be brought back. That candy was tasty and I’ve found it available on-line, but haven’t ordered any.)
Dinner was Chinese again. Hot and Sour soup with Sea Cucumber was FANTASTIC! :TODO: Jim’s photos needed
Basically, we’ve done everything on each of our lists to accomplish while in Hong Kong. Jim packs up and I read some Vinge. A wake up call for 7am is requested.
