G&K- Day 3 & 4

Grandma and Kelli's Hong Kong Adventure: Day 3-Dandan Noodles and the Wet Market

In the morning Mo and I exercised again and took Trig for another walk. She had to meet with her language partner to practice her Mandarin so she took us on the mini bus to Drew's office. The mini buses here are really cool forms of public transportation. They fit 16 passengers and everyone has a seat on them. They also come by every few minutes so it's no big deal if you don't fit on it right away. Plus they cost $4.50 HKD ($.60 USD). Drew took us to a tiny little Szechuan place for Dandan noodles. I have level 2 spiciness and Drew had 4. Mine was a very comfortable spice level while Drew was sweating at the end of it.

After lunch we got some macaroons and coffee. Mo met up with us back at the office building and took us to the wet market. It was down what seemed like a random side street in the city and had both indoor and outdoor sections. There were live fish, dried fish, butcher shops, and fresh produce. The seafood was so fresh we watched a shrimp escape from it's container onto the pavement.

The only thing that we bought were some tasty egg tarts at a bakery. We met up with Drew again later at a place in a different mall called SML, for small medium and large. After a walk back to the mini bus we made our way back to the apartment again.

Grandma and Kelli's Hong Kong Adventure: Day 4-Art Museum and Happy Valley

After going to the grocery store in the morning (which is much similar to our US grocery stores and NOT the wet market), we took a ferry back to Kowloon to go to the art museum. Few art museums that I've been to have had much emphasis on eastern art so it was pretty interesting to see. Their modern art is fairly similar to what the US has to offer, such as a display of large chickens that were moved around the city previously. They also still create paintings very similar to the ones that have been done for hundreds of years. This one, for example was made some time before the year 300.

This one was made in the mid 1900's.

We were also fortunate to be there at the time of a free tour all about Chinese porcelain and pottery. The stuff that they displayed was really beautiful and intricate at times.

Then we met with Drew for dinner again at a burger place. It was hardly traditional American burgers - mine was soft shelled crab. And I mean the whole crab was just deep fried and put on a bun. Grandma felt tired so she went back with Drew to the apartment while he got some more work done while Mo and I went to the Happy Valley race track. We saw more expats there than anywhere else in the city thus far. We had some mulled wine and watched the horses warm up for the race. We picked our three favorites and bid. Somehow I got 2 out of the 3 winners right and doubled my money! 

After watching a couple more races (and losing most of the money I had won) we called it quits and headed back to the apartment. Can't wait to go back next Wednesday!