Last Day in Hong Kong

Hey internet!   Sorry for the delay in finishing up my posts about China!   When I got back from Hong Kong I lost the powers of uncensored internet and then once I got back I moved right into my new apartment and then headed straight to New York, which is where I still am.  Chad and I went to Toronto for few days and just got back.  I have been doing a lot of traveling but I'm actually stationary at the moment so I will update you on the rest of my stay in China. So back to our regularly scheduled broadcast:

My dad had to have a business meeting in the hotel so my family had lunch with him and the business people in the hotel's Chinese restaurant.  It was pretty fancy:

I was extremely excited to eat actual Chinese food in Hong Kong (my mom and sister had been demanding a lot of pizza and it is actually widely available here).  

It was a traditional lazy susan style meal.  What you see above is just cold snack type things that they put on the table in the beginning.  And of course, tea.  

Some of the dishes; super lightly fried fish (very tasty), fried pork, sweet and sour chicken, asparagus, wonton soup, and this weird noodle dish:

This is that noodle dish.  See that orange stuff?  I assumed it was like sweet potato or some seasoning or something.  I ate a lot of it and was then informed by one of the businessmen that the orange stuff is: THE CONTENTS OF CRAB OVARIES.  Yep.  Not even just eggs, the whole contents of the ovaries.  Yum. Yum. Yum. I must admit it didn't taste bad, it didn't really taste like anything but my overly sensitive Western food sensibilities won't stop saying "EW".

So after lunch we didn't have a super solid plan of what we wanted to do the rest of the day, and we had seen the hotel's tea buffet the day before and really wanted to try it.  

Yeah we ate a lot of food.  Chocolate mouse, creme brulee, chocolate bread pudding, chocolate chip scone.  NOM NOM NOM

Look at this adorable pineapple cake: 

They also had sushi and some cold cuts but we were only interested in dessert.  

Also I couldn't get over the cute pink meringue blob.  Okay, enough pictures of the crazy amounts of desert we ate...

After tea we hopped on the MTR to Central where my dad wanted to show us the Lan Kwai Fong area of downtown.

Above is what most of Central looks like, huge buildings, bright lights, swarms of people and stupidly large designer brand stores.  Below is what the side streets look like:

Crazily inclined on a mountain, super unsafe sidewalk, street vendorpalooza, wat.  This is seriously steps away from the bright lights and designer stores.  Hong Kong, you make no sense and I love it. 

Check out that incline on the street, it's nuts.  This isn't even a particularly steep section.  Around this area is where there longest escalator in the world is.  We went up and checked it out.  It's cool. Basically just a billion sections of up escalator right after one another.  But the cool part was the view: 

If and when I come back to Hong Kong I want to wander around this area for hours.