Hong Kong Adventures: Hong Kong Day 8 -- Into the 2nd week. Rubber Duck and Light Show

Today, on the way to work, we ate breakfast at the same noodle place that we at at last week. This time I got spam instead of the sausage we accidentally ordered last week. It was pretty good, not sure which one I prefer. For lunch we walked around near the office and got some food from various shops. I got an egg waffle and we stopped at a bakery where I got a meat roll (Pastry with a little bit of meat in the middle).

After work we took the Star Ferry across the harbor from Central Pier near Hong Kong Station to Tsim Sha Tsui on Kowloon Island. There is a giant rubber duck in Hong Kong Harbor (http://www.florentijnhofman.nl/dev/project.php?id=104) right now. It is 16.5 meters tall, and just about the same size around. The duck has traveled around the world, since 2007 it has been to 11 countries and 12 cities. There were a lot of people at the spot that you could see the duck, but it didn't seem too crowded because people would take a picture of it, with and without people, and then move out of the way. After seeing the duck, we walked along the path next to the water to the Avenue of Stars. There was a large version of an Olympic torch from the 2008 Beijing Games on the walkway.

The Avenue of Stars is the Hong Kong version of the Hollywood Walk of Fame, they have plaques in the ground for various movie stars. Some of the plaques have handprints with names, others just have names. The stars that have plaques include Jackie Chan and Bruce Lee. There is also a Bruce Lee statue near the end of the walk. We walked to the end, and then turned around and headed back towards the pier. Every night at 8pm, there is a light show called "The Symphony of Lights," on Hong Kong Island and Kowloon. It is a synchronized light show that takes place on both islands and is connected to music. Many buildings are included in the show, and it even has the Guinness World Record for largest permanent light show. It wasn't quite as big or dramatic and some things make it sound, but it was still neat to see, and it was neat to see the buildings at night from a different vantage point then we saw from The Peak (opposite side, and on the ground). The buildings reflect on the water, so there are a lot of streaks of color on the harbor.

After the show was over we took a ferry back to Wan Chai, and then took the MTR back to Causeway Bay. On our way back to our apartments we stopped at a mall that had a few restaurants in it. We went to a Thai place that was pretty good, but it wasn't "Thai" like we know. I got a chicken dish, it was grilled chicken with Thai spices. One day over the next few weeks we will ask the Crown people to take us to a really good, authentic Thai restaurant.