Hong Kong at peace

The myth that Hong Kong is all bustling and no greenery is now debunked as I will show you needles in a haystack that offer tranquility despite seemingly ever busy city life on this pearl of orient. For once you can slow down, not feeling the rush and not attracting those kind of stares hinting that you are out of place.

Start with a Hi from Big Buddha at LanTau island, also known as Tian Tan Buddha. Gimme 5.

 

Treat yourself with a bowl of 'Tao Fu Fah' when you are on your way down. Soft and slippery smooth but not too sweet (sugar not subsidized by their government mah) .

Shopping aside. This Chi Lin Nunnery which located at Diamond Hill, Kowloon is a good find. Your camera will love it. What is more impressive are the wood frame buildings were build without using a single iron nail following the style of Tang Dynasty. 

Human can't survive without eating, obviously HongKie also like to eat because their population never shrunk :). In fact HK have no lack of specialty in term of food especially Cantonese cuisine, one of them is this roast pigeon below .. looks like chicken but it's a bird .. the debate may continue that chicken is also bird, but what I care about is how they taste. Another popular seafood dish is Mantis shrimp or  'pissing  shrimp' in cantonese, normally have a choice of two flavors in cooking - salt and pepper or deep fried with minced garlic(soaked overnight in black bean sauce) and chilli.

Bonus track: Shanzen's Little Sheep steamboat restaurant with their mantra - 'the joy of sharing', but I think 'spice up your life' or 'the taste of losing tongue' is more adequate, as for most steamboat in China you can't get away with their ma la red-hot chilli peppers soup, supposedly keep rheumatism aches at bay, but my advise is to eat this last otherwise once your tongue is numb you lost your taste buds then there is not much different of you chewing table cloth :D.