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Today's Picture: 031 (February 25th, 2009)
Today's Pictures from Day Two of the Hong Kong leg are:
congee (or okayu if you're Japanese or juk if you're Korean). This is my favorite breakfast food after pho. It's basically rice boiled until it's glutinous, with seasonings and ingredients of your choosing. This one featured squid, spring onions, and fishcake. My favorite Chinese variety has duck egg and shredded beef.
Here's a view of Hong Kong taken on the way up to Victoria Peak, which is one of the main sightseeing spots in the territory.
A typical street scene in a middle class area of the city (this particular shot was taken halfway between the Peak tram station and Cat Street). Look closely and you'll see a car miraculously parked right at the foot of a six-storey drop in the building second from the right. You can't tell from the picture, but there was no glass or barricade to prevent the driver from reversing right on to the street below. We were all in awe.
Man Mo temple near Cat Street. This is a Taoist temple dedicated to the gods of literature and war, and associated with a hosipital and (I think) elementary school. That's a small Buddhist temple on the right. Anyway, Man Mo is one of Hong Kong's most iconic tourist locations, and there's some pretty old stuff in the temple.
These are big coiled incense sticks, all lit. The entire interior of the temple is covered with them; every now and then a bit of ash sifts down to the floor. Although they're apparently one of the big draws at Man Mo, they're pretty similar to what I saw in the interior of a Buddhist temple I visited in Singapore a few years ago.
Some of the main images in Man Mo, not of the war or literature gods, but (I believe) Shing Wong, the city's protector diety.
A street scene in a slightly less well-to-do area of the city, near the WesternTourist Trap Market.
One of my favorite things about Hong Kong (and Southeast Asia as well) is the easy availablity of cheap, fresh fruit, especially varieties not well known in the west. This is a representative example, just a tiny street stall I photographed across the street from the Western Market. Most of the fruit pictured here cost under a buck for a pound.
Another random storefront near the Western Market, this one selling dried mushrooms and such.
And a final storefront, this one near the Ladies Night Market. As you can see, it sells a wide variety of spit-roasted poultry.
That will be all.
congee (or okayu if you're Japanese or juk if you're Korean). This is my favorite breakfast food after pho. It's basically rice boiled until it's glutinous, with seasonings and ingredients of your choosing. This one featured squid, spring onions, and fishcake. My favorite Chinese variety has duck egg and shredded beef.
Here's a view of Hong Kong taken on the way up to Victoria Peak, which is one of the main sightseeing spots in the territory.
A typical street scene in a middle class area of the city (this particular shot was taken halfway between the Peak tram station and Cat Street). Look closely and you'll see a car miraculously parked right at the foot of a six-storey drop in the building second from the right. You can't tell from the picture, but there was no glass or barricade to prevent the driver from reversing right on to the street below. We were all in awe.
Man Mo temple near Cat Street. This is a Taoist temple dedicated to the gods of literature and war, and associated with a hosipital and (I think) elementary school. That's a small Buddhist temple on the right. Anyway, Man Mo is one of Hong Kong's most iconic tourist locations, and there's some pretty old stuff in the temple.
These are big coiled incense sticks, all lit. The entire interior of the temple is covered with them; every now and then a bit of ash sifts down to the floor. Although they're apparently one of the big draws at Man Mo, they're pretty similar to what I saw in the interior of a Buddhist temple I visited in Singapore a few years ago.
Some of the main images in Man Mo, not of the war or literature gods, but (I believe) Shing Wong, the city's protector diety.
A street scene in a slightly less well-to-do area of the city, near the Western
One of my favorite things about Hong Kong (and Southeast Asia as well) is the easy availablity of cheap, fresh fruit, especially varieties not well known in the west. This is a representative example, just a tiny street stall I photographed across the street from the Western Market. Most of the fruit pictured here cost under a buck for a pound.
Another random storefront near the Western Market, this one selling dried mushrooms and such.
And a final storefront, this one near the Ladies Night Market. As you can see, it sells a wide variety of spit-roasted poultry.
That will be all.
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I wish growers in FL and CA would branch out. Imagine how much $$$ you could rake in cultivating something other than oranges or grapefruits. Americans can be pretty suspicious of foreign cultures, but we love food, so I think the potential market would be pretty darn big.