The living room
Playing Sorry!
The living room view by day.
Birthday party.
Birthday party as art-house shadow theatre.
Opening presents.
Skyping with Ellen.
Some night-time views.
Sham Shui Po
Favorite new food of the week.
the I.M. Pei building by day.
Everything everywhere was an inside job.
Detail from sign, explaining how your disembodied brain will contract the squiggles.
The rotatable walkways/cranes/whatever that make the HSBC building look like a Death Star equipped with planet-destroying cannons.
View from the Peak
the Parsee Cemetery
the colonial cemetery at Happy Valley
Cemetery with racetrack grandstand and flyover road.
The cemetery is not maintained or preserved by the HK government, and is being slowly reclaimed by the earth.
Nazi grave
Same view, foggy day.
More fun with reflection, blur and kid.
Lunch at Jusco, a Japanese grocery/department store, in Tai Koo.
Takoyaki at Apita- another Japanese grocery. Would you believe this was the second day (in a row) I trekked out to Tai Koo to eat these?
The Agriculture Reader is now part of the library at Saffron Cafe on the Peak.
Tai Po is about 45 minutes outside of HK island. It took 3 trains to get here.
I went to Tai Po for this: bull penis over rice noodle in soup, at Kwan Kee, a world-renowned brisket shop. They spoke no English, and I didn't know how to order it, but one customer there could read English, so I showed her the article I'd read about the place (and had the foresight to bring with me). There was a lot of nervous laughter and then they all wanted me to teach them how to say it in English. So it was me and about 4 Chinese women all saying "penis" to each other over and over, getting our pronunciation just right. Also, it tasted good.
The line to get in to Kwan Kee, which seats about 12.
Pork and shrimp dumpling topped with quail egg.
Pork.
Tai Po village.
This tofu is so silky that it turns into soup in your mouth. It is served with ginger syrup and orange sugar crystals. They're not orange flavored, they're just orange. I believe it's a dessert.
Shoe store in Mong Kok
Lamma island, waiting for the ferry.
On the central/mid-levels escalator
Moments later I was chased away with a stick by an angry old lady who did not want me taking pictures of her cat.
Lily considers making what would have been a major life-style change.
