Hong Kong, China Visa, Michelin Star...and China Bound

Hongkong

11th January 2011

Today we arrived at the visa office to collect the passports, 30 day China visa no problem! In and out in 10 minutes. We headed for some more of that delicious wontoon soup and again to the uber delicious bakery for some out of this world cakes. We headed to Victoria park, an average enough park with more rules then a secondary school but a nice place in the middle of a concete jungle. We headed to Hong Kom to book our tickets to Guanghzou, China tomorrow.We walked abit around the concrete jungle and contemplated going to the  'top' attraction - Noahs Ark to scale..I thought it sounded uber shit, so we left it. The lads we met late actually did this that day and said it was the shitest thing ever!

Tonight we headed to the worlds cheapest Michelin star restaurant in the world, Tim Ho Wan restaurant..we waited about an hour to get inside. Myself Tina, Dominic and Tom ate a variety of food for the grand sum of 4euro each and that included a bottomless cup of Tea! The prok buns (It's signature dish) were to excellent.

We walked through the ladies market and through the hussle and bussle there was this little man offering 'copy watch', I was after an Omega or Tag and as they were pretty scarce on the ground we went with him up this narrow and up a set of steps into an appartment complex where we were handed a catalogue..I choose an Omega and he disappeared a few minutes later another guy emerges and says they have none, I ask do they have any and he walks away?? They must have thought we were the feds or something!

We wandered around the market and laughed at their hardball bargaining on things, they'll just blank you if they don't get what their after. We headed to 7-11 and had the cheapest beer in Hong Kong at a table in the rear of the shop! Not unusual as there was a couple of locals there enjoying the same before we arrived.

One thing I noticed they are the biggest germaphobes ever here, every escalator, lift, phonebox had signs saying that their sterilised daily/hourly...the extreme was when we were in the queue for the lift and the security guard ran for his life when some foreigner sneezed!

Tomorrow China bound...can't wait!