HONG KONG, DAY TWO!

Well, if you know John then this should come as no surprise—he met yet another business associate from years past for yet another traditional Hong Kong breakfast!

I was charged to walk across the street to the mall to look for a new shirt or two for John as he opted to bring a sports jacket in lieu of enough shirts for the trip. 🙄 

Upon arrival to the mall, lo and behold, all the stores were still closed until 11:00AM!  And look what was open!  (Was I lucky or what?)

By the time my coffee was finished John had arrived!  We both looked through Marks & Spencer at men’s shirts, to no avail.  We were set up to meet Somsak and Salinee for a steak dinner in Kowloon (they were  in Hong Kong for a visit), so we decided to take the Star Ferry across the water back to Hong Kong for the day!

Once across the water, we walked (and walked and walked) to a place Murf had suggested we visit, Tai Kwun, an old prison, now closed, that was located smack dab in downtown Hong Kong.  He told us there was a cafe where you could actually sit inside a prison cell to have lunch.  That became our destination!

Along the way we saw more mandarin trees being delivered for Chinese New Year,

buildings being built using bamboo for scaffolding, 

and a three block uphill climb we had to take to get to the prison! 😳😳😳

We made it and were ready as ever for lunch!

We found the old prison without much trouble, however,

the cafe was another story! We climbed a million steps, went in and out of several buildings, but could not find the recommended cafe!  We asked, showed this picture, and were told “No restaurant here.”

Instead, we found a delightful plaza area in the middle of all the prison buildings and opted to have sushi for lunch!  And a beer—after all the steps we climbed, we deserved an ice cold brewski!

During lunch, John got a text from Somsak, changing our dinner plans to the Hong Kong side!  We were already on the Hong Kong side, but not dressed for dinner!  So after the sushi was eaten and the beers were drank, we travelled back to Kowloon on the Star Ferry!

Later, back at the room, we put our feet up for a bit before getting ready for dinner.  Oh, and I forgot to mention that our Indiana home’s heat went out during the subzero temps.  Oh FUN!  Jas (bless his heart) had been meeting with the heating and cooling people to figure that all out while Jon (bless his heart) had been taking good care of our girl, Shallie, and managing all her meds for a collapsed trachea!  (What would we do without these two?)

John made a quick run to drop off a bag of dirty clothes to a Chinese Laundry down a block from our hotel! 

Since we’d already taken the train to Hong Kong yesterday, and then the ferry to Hong Kong that morning, we opted to take a Grab to Hong Kong for dinner!  

We drove through the Cross Harbor Tunnel, under the water, to the other side.  Just look at the screen on our Grab car (a Tesla)!

We drove past many Chinese New Year decorations

before arriving at our restaurant, Yung Kee in Lan Kwai Fong (John’s favorite area in Hong Kong).

We enjoyed a delightful dinner with Somsak, Salinee and Salinee’s brother, Louis.  All different Hong Kong specialties were served, the most interesting one being GOOSE!  (Yup, it was a delicacy over here!)

After dinner we bid our fond farewells and John and I headed straight to the center of Lang Kwai Fong.  It was still early by HK standards (9:30PM—NOT by my standards) but it was fun to watch all the people strolling past all the bars and listening to John’s stories of nights spent here with customers!

It was another great day in Kowloon and Hong Kong (then Kowloon then Hong Kong then Kowloon)!  It was overcast however, we only felt about four rain drops the entire day!  We called that a WIN and hoped for the same tomorrow!