Another failed attempt at an activity was when we tried to get on a bus to the Noon day gun – an old colonial tradition where a naval gun is fired off at noon every day.
The bus we got on showed a stop at the cross Harbour crossing, which it turns out meant the other side of the harbour, we crossed the road hoping to get back in time to see the noon-day gun and ended up god knows where and had to walk back to civilisation. In the sticky sweaty heat it felt like a 6 mile trek back. In hindsight we should’ve just hailed a taxi as the journey we needed to take would’ve cost about $30.
Back for our second bite of the Maxin’s Palace cherry and were successful after a short wait for a table. All the Dim Sum is pushed around by 10+ waitresses on little trolleys, as was the style back in the day, you just stop the trolley and point at what you want (well, I’m guessing you should ask in Cantonese but our fingers were the next best thing, as usual) and they mark your card with how much you’ve eaten. We finished our meal and had the most perfectly presented layered jelly coffee flavoured desert
when all of a sudden I looked up at a shocked face across the room. When I managed to focus I realised it was Christina who I was about to start work with, and not just her but the entire HK Finance Team were out for a leaving lunch for my departing boss who was leaving before I got there. After the shock had worn off I went over for some introductions and met my future work mates. It’s incredible that I could bump into the one person in HK that I had ever met face to face before, Sitting for lunch two tables over.
That's my Finance Team on that table by the window
As we were nearby we took the Ferry across to Victoria Harbour which is on most ‘top 50/100 things to do before you die’ lists. You can see why, it’s such an impressive journey either way, you have all the hugely imposing buildings either side.
The ride one-way is $2.20 for the Upper deck (air-conditioned) or you can drop down to the lower deck for $1.7 which we did by mistake a few days later. The extra 4p for the upstairs is worth it IMO but its worth slumming it once as the downstairs has a completely different vibe. We took the ferry back almost straight away knowing that we had a day in Kowloon (the Peninsular) planned later in the week.
We got on the Big bus company tour around the City to take in some of the sights we might have missed. Due to high winds and jet lag our ticket for the bus blew away forcing us to stay on the hop-on hop-off bus without the ability to hop-off until the end.
Some Stops included
- Sogo - the biggest Dept store in HK,
- Victoria Park (named recently after the film ‘Young Victoria’).
- The Wan Chai computer centre, biggest in HK, which was salivating over from the moment I heard it existed,
- Mid-level escalators, and Soho
- Man Mo Temple,
The Lippo building
After bussing back to the bus station we headed back into Lan Kwai Fong and found the Hong Kong Brewhouse.
Evidence of what happened after this, including food is lost I think – maybe Katy can remember something?
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