Kowloon

I have some shocking news. This blog is mostly about food. Since returning to Hong Kong from Macau we've spent most of our time walking around the city, eating, planning the rest of our trip, and eating. Last night we walked around Kowloon with Hobart, Chellis and her parents for a couple hours and then ate some dessert at The Sweet Dynasty. The desserts here have been some of our favorite food in Hong Kong. They have mostly been a combination of fruit, jello, and tofu. The tofu pudding was really good - especially with almond. Our other favorite dessert place that we have visited at least five times is Hui Lau Shan. They serve a variety of desserts, but we always ordered the cold fruit drinks. My favorite was honey jelly(more like jello) with pomelo and mango. Nicole liked the sago in mango and coconut milk. The straws served with the beverage are almost the diameter of my thumb so you can suck up the big fruit chunks and jelly. Again, it may sound weird, but it really was delicious.We also spent a few hours at the Hong Kong History Museum in Kowloon (the penninsula just North of the Hong Kong Island). Probably the best museum that we've been to in Asia in terms of content, production, and presentation. Afterwards we met up with Chellis and Hobart for lunch and then, sadly, said goodbye. I picked up some extra pictures from them and had to post the one below. Hobart and Andrew: Men in Macau.
On our last night we walked through the Lunar New Year Fair in Victoria Park. Lunar New Year in China is like a combination of Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Year in the States. The fair was why the area we were staying, Causeway Bay, was so crowded. We held out from going all week because it looked insane - a sea of people shuffling through the streets waving inflatable pigs (the coming year is the year of the Golden Pig). By our last night, however, we convinced ourselves that we had to experience the madness and brave the crowds. The fair was only two blocks from our hostel, but it took twenty minutes to make it to the main event. Consisting of three aisles created by rows of booths setup up to sell good luck charms, food, and inflatable plastic toys. The aisles were so crowded that traffic was only allowed in one direction. Fortunately, I guess, the booths were essentially the same and were almost impossible to reach anyways so we didn't have to worry about missing out on our very own plastic pig. We did manage to pick up some tasty peanut brittle!Our return to Bangkok on Air India wasn't really very surprising - the fight was delayed over five hours and we didn't get to the hostel until midnight. Today we've just been running errands - finishing up our fittings with the suit tailor and shipping some stuff home. We're making our final plans for entering Cambodia and should be saying our final fairwell to Thailand on Wednesday.