Today was moving day. I woke up and finished packing up my stuff. Samantha came out to Causeway to pick me up and head back to her grandma’s in To Kwa Wan. We took the bus from Causeway to To Kwa Wan and then walked the block or so to the apartment. We got to the apartment a a little after 11. We were at the apartment for a bit and then headed out to get food and do some sight seeing.
We went to get Dim Sum for lunch/brunch. We walked over to a mall near the apartment, there was a dim sum restaurant inside that I think she goes to quite often. She is also going next week with 50 other people. At dim sum here they don’t walk around with carts of food like they do at dim sum places at home. They used to but stopped doing it because it can waste a lot of food if it is something that people don’t like or want. We ordered a few things off of the menu. We had radish cake, fried tofu skin with shrimp and vegetables, pork ribs, shrimp dumplings, a ginger and orange/tangerine gelatin, flat noodles with filling, and meatballs and a bun with custard inside. It was all really good, only the third time that I’ve had dim sum since we’ve been here I think, so it was nice to have it one last time before leaving.
After eating, we headed to the bus stop to go down to some temples. We went to the Sik Sik Yuen Temple in Won Tai Sin. It is a very large temple and has many buildings on the grounds. There is also a “good wish garden” that is accessed through the temple. The Sik Sik temple has areas for three religions, Taoism, Buddhism and Confucianism. The entire temple is very elaborately decorated. It is all very colorful and had decorations that stand out quite a bit. There were a lot of people there, with many there for worship. It is also a popular tourist destination so there were a lot of tourists there. We walked around the entire temple, looking at the halls, shrines, fountains, and other items. We went through the Good Wish garden, it was really pretty, had a lot of large ponds with paths and bridges over and around the ponds. There were turtles and koi in all of the ponds, and also areas of lotus plants.
Next we took the MTR to Diamond Hill to go check out the nunnery and gardens. The same nunnery that Ciara and I went to last weekend, but we went in through the Western Lotus Pond Garden instead of through the gardens. It was neat to see it all again, especially to contrast the nunnery to the Sik Sik temple. The nunnery is so natural and peaceful looking compared to the Sik Sik temple. I also found out that there is not a single nail in the nunnery, it is built using wooden pegs and brackets. We finished with the nunnery and then walked out through the gardens.
We went back to the mall at the MTR station to get something to drink and rest in the air conditioning for a bit. It was really warm out and we were walking around a lot. Samantha and I got lime juice with aloe. It was nice and cold and tasted really good. After we finished our drinks, we went down to the bus station, which is next to the MTR station and the mall, to head over to Sai Kung for a seafood dinner.
There were a lot of people in Sai Kung, it looks like a very popular swimming and boating area. There are a lot of boats anchored around there, from fishing boats to fancy yachts. It is a big seafood area, there are many shops along the water with big tanks of seafood. There was shrimp, fish, crab, lobsters, abalone, clams, and just about anything else you can think of. Each restaurant has a set of tanks in front, and has people standing outside trying to get people to stop and eat. Most have tables inside the building and outside with a view of the harbour.
The food was really good, it was so fresh, it was fairly similar to what we had on the junk ride the other day. We had soup with crab; mantis shrimp (called “pissing shrimp” here); scallop, broccoli and mushroom stir-fry, steamed scallops with vermicelli noodles and garlic; sautéed/stir-fried vegetables; lobster with pasta; fried rice; abalone; and steamed fish. It tasted so good, and we ate so much. After we finished eating we walked around the little town a bit and then took a bus back to To Kwa Wan.
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