Anyway Sunday started off with breakfast dim sum at Hei Hei Chinese Kitchen Restuarant at 9am. They start early over here and we were not the first table - dim sum was pretty good with one or two items much better than the UK - notably the Siu Mai and Steamed Custard Buns which has a liquid centre instead of the usual solid centre.
Then after dim sum it was off to church. Shirley's church meets in the local school and in truth is pretty much the same as any evangeical church in the UK. It follows pretty much the same format except everything is conducted in cantonese. Also communioin is a bit different - bread is replaced by broekn bit of crackers - a bit like Matzo and wine is taken by using a teaspoon from a communal bowl. I suppose every church has its distinctive practices
After church we were off to the NP360 attraction and a ride on the Skyrail - we had to queue for over an hour but the views from the cabale car were well worth it.
Look at the queues on the walkway of the bridge - normally Hong Kong people don't do queues!
If you have the energy you can walk up to the Big Bhudda and Po Lin Monestry
That is one Big Bhudda
Ngong Ping Village is a bit of a tourist trap but quite a pleasent one if you are not Chinese
We didn't really hang around the Nong Ping Village but we did go to the older more traditional roadside stalls by the old bus stop area by the Po Lin Temple entrance and had some traditional Tofu Fa dessert with the syrup and yellow sugar.
Next up it was a bus down to Tai O for a wonder round the street that are filled with stalls selling dried seafood, shrimp paste and other weird and wonderful things you can do with seafood - someone once described Tai O as Hong Kong as it once was many years ago but preserved in the present day.
Tai O is famous for its dried seafood and food
Dried Whelks
Smoked Oysters
Dried Prawn Slivers
Dried Ducks Kidney
Fish Drying
Dried Goods Stall
BBQ Squid Pieces
Typical Tai O street scene - look at that dried shark on the left of the photo....
Enterprising way of selling fresh fish - certainly looks the part
Street Food in Tai O
The usual fishball selection etc
Everyone likes there fritters -
Saw this bike and couldn't resist taking a piccie -can't see that seat being very comfortable -
Lunch was at one of the many street side cafes and was tasty and basic - a plate of sate flavoured fishballs, pigs skin and squid tentacles, a plate of chicken wings, sausage and tea eggs and a plate of chueng fun - this was all followed by some rather decent mango pudding with lots of chunks of real mango.
Nice way to dispense your napkins which are really toilet rolls
Anyway the plan was to take a ferry from Tai O to Tuen Mun which would have taken about 20 minutes - but all the ferries were fully booked so two buses and 1.5 hours of power napping later we were back in Tuen Mun and in a taxi with my suitcase heading for TST and the Salisbury.
Saw these apartments on the journey back to the hotel and thought they made an interesting photo
It was quite late by now - about 8pm so after check in we went to look for dinner. Shirley seemmed to know this area quite well and we eneded up at a place called Sushi One - so popular we had to wait 1/2 an hour for two seats at the converyor belt but well worth the wait - so nice and such good value for money.
Sweet Omlette, Crabmeat and Crab Roe Sushi
Grilled baby squid sushi
King Prawn and Mixed Veg Tempura
Sashimi of Salmon, Scallop and Ebi Prawns
Blow torch salmon Sushi
Toro Sushi
Clam Sushi
Seared Scallop Sushi
Teriyaki Eel Sushi
Great sushi. Anyway - met up with my cousin Phillip for a late coffee and the Peninsula but we got thrown out as he was in shorts - anyway we ended up at the Kowloon Hotel in their coffee shop which had live music and was open till 1am so it was another ate night.
The end of another event and food packed day :-) - by the way the cabled internet access in my room at the Salisbury is very fast (for a shared access in a hotel) so I am well pleased
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