Top: Hong Kong Culture Center and Train Tower in Tsim Sha Tsuen (TST)- 1998
Middle: Hong Kong Train Tower in TST - c1981
Bottom: View of Hong Kong Island from TST - 2004
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November 28, 2008
Today I’m going over to TST to have lunch with Jenny & Peggy after they finish some of their “running around”. I think we are going to have some Peking Dumplings; I’m looking forward to that.
November 29th - Yesterday’s trip to TST to have Dumplings was great. The name of the restaurant is Din Tai Fung and it is located in the Silvercord Building on Canton Rd; so if you are ever here in Hong Kong or have friends who are coming here, tell them not to miss it. The restaurant is actually a Taiwanese chain and has restaurants around the world with one in LA. Peggy says the one in LA is not as good as the one here.
Last night we had an “obligation dinner” in Sham Shui Po, a district just northwest of Mongkok, is mainly a residential area and is where Sister lives. The dinner was with Jenny & Sister friends, who wanted to meet and greet the “bride & groom” (Peggy & Mike). It was a chance to introduce Mike to friends of the family. We had about twelve people there and it was a traditional Chinese feast (but I didn’t eat anything!).
As I have said before, we get a lot of different and delicious fruit here. One fruit I have been enjoying is the Persimmon. It is a fruit I remember pulling or I should say stealing from the neighbors’ tree as a kid. But I remember I didn’t like it because it was so bitter. I guess I was stealing green Persimmon because the fruit I’m eating here is delicious!
As most of you may know, in Hong Kong drivers drive on the left side of the road, while in China they drive on the right side or the correct side! Hong Kong businessmen who travel to China a lot want to have their cars registered in both: Mainland and Hong Kong. It is interesting to note, before a Hong Kong driver is given permission to have a auto licensed in China, he most invest at least HK$1,000,000.
November 30th - Last night we had a family get together at, you guess it: a restaurant! This time we went for Japanese food: Shabu shabu. Shabu shabu is like a Chinese Hot Pot were you cook your food at the table. It was great and this time I did eat a lot!
This family gathering was for Peggy and Mike to say goodbye to Peggy’s family in that they are leaving on Monday and will not see them again before they leave.
Just a few words about the government in Hong Kong: (If you know all of this, just skip over)
Hong Kong is a Special Administrative Region (SAR) of the People’s Republic of China with its own form of government that is supposed to exist for fifty years (based on constitutional documents signed by China and Britain when Hong Kong was returned to China in 1997). This document is called the “Basic Law”; the rights and freedom of the people of Hong Kong are ensured with this mini-constitution and with the following governmental bodies: Chief Executive, Cabinet, Legislature, and Judiciary.
The bottom line is, as I think I have said before, the people of Hong Kong do not elect their Chief Executive and can only elect 30 of the sixty members in the Legislature, but they have more voice in their government today than they did when it was a colony.
Today I’m going over to TST to have lunch with Jenny & Peggy after they finish some of their “running around”. I think we are going to have some Peking Dumplings; I’m looking forward to that.
November 29th - Yesterday’s trip to TST to have Dumplings was great. The name of the restaurant is Din Tai Fung and it is located in the Silvercord Building on Canton Rd; so if you are ever here in Hong Kong or have friends who are coming here, tell them not to miss it. The restaurant is actually a Taiwanese chain and has restaurants around the world with one in LA. Peggy says the one in LA is not as good as the one here.
Last night we had an “obligation dinner” in Sham Shui Po, a district just northwest of Mongkok, is mainly a residential area and is where Sister lives. The dinner was with Jenny & Sister friends, who wanted to meet and greet the “bride & groom” (Peggy & Mike). It was a chance to introduce Mike to friends of the family. We had about twelve people there and it was a traditional Chinese feast (but I didn’t eat anything!).
As I have said before, we get a lot of different and delicious fruit here. One fruit I have been enjoying is the Persimmon. It is a fruit I remember pulling or I should say stealing from the neighbors’ tree as a kid. But I remember I didn’t like it because it was so bitter. I guess I was stealing green Persimmon because the fruit I’m eating here is delicious!
As most of you may know, in Hong Kong drivers drive on the left side of the road, while in China they drive on the right side or the correct side! Hong Kong businessmen who travel to China a lot want to have their cars registered in both: Mainland and Hong Kong. It is interesting to note, before a Hong Kong driver is given permission to have a auto licensed in China, he most invest at least HK$1,000,000.
November 30th - Last night we had a family get together at, you guess it: a restaurant! This time we went for Japanese food: Shabu shabu. Shabu shabu is like a Chinese Hot Pot were you cook your food at the table. It was great and this time I did eat a lot!
This family gathering was for Peggy and Mike to say goodbye to Peggy’s family in that they are leaving on Monday and will not see them again before they leave.
Just a few words about the government in Hong Kong: (If you know all of this, just skip over)
Hong Kong is a Special Administrative Region (SAR) of the People’s Republic of China with its own form of government that is supposed to exist for fifty years (based on constitutional documents signed by China and Britain when Hong Kong was returned to China in 1997). This document is called the “Basic Law”; the rights and freedom of the people of Hong Kong are ensured with this mini-constitution and with the following governmental bodies: Chief Executive, Cabinet, Legislature, and Judiciary.
The bottom line is, as I think I have said before, the people of Hong Kong do not elect their Chief Executive and can only elect 30 of the sixty members in the Legislature, but they have more voice in their government today than they did when it was a colony.
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