Hong Kong Day 2, Sight Seeing.

After having our quick breakfast in Mongkok, we headed out for ‘Tai Yu San’ or Ngong Ping. We opted for the cable car route to get to our destination. I like the scenery along the way to the peak, especially the green pastures on the slopes. Totally different from the slopes in Malaysia which is full of trees of sort.

Upon reaching the peak, we were greeted with some the giant Buddha statue that we usually see in the TVB serial dramas.

There we are taking a photo at the foot of the giant statue.

Apart from visiting ‘Tai Yu San’, we also to half a day visiting ‘Tai O’, its jetty, township, market and took a look at the way of life of in this tranquil yet full of surprise village.

Clear bilingual sign boards which are great for tourists like us. If it had been implemented in whole of Malaysian, it would had in a way preserved the historical names of roads which has disappeared due to human ego.

Along the walk around, we found some shops that we took photo of which still had some human flavour  in them.

This place we found a ‘tzi yum’ or fellow jazz and coffee lover who was friendly and helpful in our quest to search some local specialties.

We bought a bottle of ‘Prawn Paste’ for for testing on ‘kangkung’ and some other dishes that we plan to experiment with.

Then we move on to scout for ‘eel fish maw’, which we had to ask around for the locally process ones. We were directed by the owners of the cafe that we visited to look for ‘Siu Sing Sok’. He makes his own salted fish too which we also got a few for tasting.

What we didn’t get from our excursion was the beautiful and flavourful freshly preserved whole duck egg yokes.

Then we made a pit stop at an old but tasteful house cum business premises run by an old uncle who is still making ‘char kuo’ or steamed glutenous balls stuffed with peanut and sugar fillings the way they used to make it, with wood fire and bamboo steamers.

Lastly, we headed to a stall which passed by earlier to get some home made pastes to bring back for testing.