Christmas in Hong Kong

On Christmas the first thing we decided to do was head to the Hong Kong Museum of Art.  On the way there we found this awesome shirt:

"A lion burger recipe"  there are arrows that point to all the parts of the burger.

As we were entering the museum we saw these itty bitty signs above all of the door handles:

"This handle is disinfected 8 times a day"  Overcautious much?  My mom loves it here.

The actual art museum was cool.  It was more ancient Chinese artifacts than fine art.  There was only one "fine art gallery".  There were 3 ancient artifact galleries.  One calligraphy gallery and one ink painting gallery, and that was it.  It was neat to see but there wasn't a whole lot of variety.  Kinda like you see one clay rice bowl and you've seen them all.

Here is a picture of a fancy crown:

This was one of the cooler artifacts because it was super unique and didn't look the same as 20 other artifacts.  See the way they space it out crazy far?  It's like one thing in a 4 ft radius and the whole place was like that.

When we came back to our hotel (after poking around in some shops and malls on the way home) we discovered this:

  This, my friends, is a chocolate ornament.   And guess what?  We got another one of those chocolate ball sculptures.  We have so much chocolate we don't even know what to do.

For Christmas dinner we went to a Japanese restaurant in a hotel down the street.  My dad and I ate a lot of sashimi and Mom and Liv had tempura shrimp.  

This bowl of ice was once full of delicious fishes.  

As we were finishing up dinner we heard a bell ringing and looked up to discover: 

Chinese Santa, handing out presents to all of the tables in the restaurant.  This was super surprising as no one informed us this would be happening.  It was super absurd and awesome all at the same time.  All of the presents were different chocolate sculpture type deals.  Ours is this:

A garden gnome sized chocolate Santa.  Who ends up looking like black Santa.  He's so magical. 

After dinner we headed outside to explore the area.  A lot of the buildings around here are super decked out for Christmas.

There are lots of dragons because 2012 is going to be the year of the dragon and this is apparently a Big Deal.  There are a bajillion people getting married in the spring because they all want to be married in the lucky year of the dragon.   

We walked down a street with some little shops and food places.  We found this place that is clearly supposed to be called "Holy Cow":

And we found some high quality bad T-shirts in little boutique nearby:

And possibly the best of the trip so far:

"Return of the Killer Bastard Shirts"  The shop keeper wondered why we were taking pictures of this and we told her that "bastard" is a bad word in English.  She said "Oh, shit!"and asked what the meaning was.  We did and she said "This is not a very nice shirt."  On the way out we noticed there was another one on a display mannequin near the entrance.  Excellent.