Stopover

My flight to Toronto leaves from Hong Kong which is why I spent the night at my Uncle's in Tai Koo.

In the morning, we had breakfast in a tiny store near his apartment. Ramen with ham, and a piece of toast and fried eggs for me. I never really developed a taste for these noodles and didn't eat a single packet in university. They say it's so different and so much better in Japan. The Hong Kong slang for a coffee with no cream is tsai fe, or, "vegetarian coffee".

There's in-town check-in for luggage, at the Hong Kong and Kowloon MTR stations. Very convenient as my flight was for the afternoon and I was able to drop off my big suitcase and pick up my boarding pass.

We checked out the restaurant supply street, Shanghai Street, in Yau Ma Tei. Aside from the usual things, my uncle wanted to show me the vegetable cutters. You know how some stir fries have carrot or ginger slices in the shapes of butterflies or fish or the Chinese character for fortune? It turns out they're not laboriously carved by hand as I thought, but stamped from sharp metal cutters.

Lunch was at a fish ball noodle place, where I tried some stuffed beef balls and a drink of chrysanthemum and honey.

Well, that's it for my whirlwind trip. I've been away for a long time and it will be nice to come home. There's things I won't miss here, like the humidity and crowds, but I will miss the glorious food and superb public transit.