Hong Kong Oct.1, 2016
Hong Kong University, streets and Dim Sum breakfast
Soon after the business meeting completed in Kunming, I hopped on a Dragon’s flight to Hong Kong that evening. Since I visited Hong Kong in 2015, it seems my love to Hong Kong has come to alive again. I could stay only one night this time. So I had a plan to have a din sum breakfast at Lin Heung Kui and visit Hong Kong University campus near Kennedy town where I stay during this short layover.
I got on the tram before 7 o’clock the following morning from Water Street toward Central and got off near Sheung wan.
This is my second time to have a din sum at the restaurant, which serves din sum on wagons by waits. You can pick up what you want looking inside the wagon. This is very old style. There are quite few restaurants to keep this style now a day in Hong Kong. I do need to neither speak nor understand Cantonese, the dialect spoken in the area, to get what you want. When you try to look into the wagon coming near you, the wait will stop and let you check if there are any dishes you want. If you point to a dish, she will take a rid of the dish so you can see what it is inside. I like a chung fung, a steamed rice roll, and a chicken feet. When I say “Chung Fung”, they guess I want “Chao Fan”, a fried rice. I need to repeat several time. Then they would come to understand finally I want Chung Fun. It takes time to get me understood. There are different types of chung fun, Char siu roasted pork, vegetable or steamed shrimp. I like the texture of the food. It is of soft texture and that thick taste of sweet soy sauce. I prefer shrimp Chung Fun. When I ask Chicken feet, I show them my three fingers and make them move. They understand quickly what I means. Many of us Japanese do not like the dish because of the appearance. However, it tastes very good and contains gelatin. It is good for blood cell and skin to keep you healthy.
I like the atmosphere of this restaurant: steaming hot food brought by wagons, good staff who obviously enjoying working, customers who spend time like they are at their home. I wish I could have such a nice place near my home. I took a chung fun, roast pork with rice, chicken feet with bolay black tea to wash down them. I left there around 8 o’clock with my stomach full .
I went to Cheung Wan by tram and walked around the streets. Then I took MTR to HKU station. There is an elevator at the station which takes you to the entrance of the school on the hill top. You can see the harbor from the campus. The moist and gentle winds from the harbor feel good. It seems a good location to study something for me who was born and raised in Yokohama. There were a few students in the campus of quite Saturday morning. I stopped by the book store on the campus. Then I returned to the hotel as I had to check out before 12 o’clock. I decided to go by airport bus from the bus stop across the street in front of the hotel. The bus goes to Chek Lap Kok airport on the Lantau Island, west Hong Kong. It goes through dock areas and ship yards. You can see beautiful landscape and the ocean. I like the view of the harbor from the bus window. I use the bus rather than taking an airport express not because of cheap fare but this beautiful view. I could see the ocean from the window. I saw a container ship being built on a ship-yard. The large ship was going slowly toward the port when I was crossing the bridge. I felt as if it smells ocean in the bus. I could spend the time relaxed. I wish I could come back again soon.