Tsim Sha Tsui & Sai Kung.

Yesterday we were out from 11am to 12am, so like I mentioned in my previous post it was a long day. However, due to all the excitement of, you know, getting home, no one went to bed until 2am... and I couldn't sleep until at least 4am, I only woke up an hour ago. Perhaps I am slightly ashamed but the last few days have been knackering and it's not something that I plan on doing from here on in.
My sleeping pattern so farhas been awful, going to bed at 2-3am and waking up at 9, I hit a wall at about 3pm but don't embrace it and power through, I think that was the key to it, so maybe this slight mistake will make everything a bit better.

We began yesterday with a buffet lunch at The Royal Garden restaurant in Tsim Sha Tsui, it's part of a large hotel that has a few other restaurants in it too, it was pretty posh. They had so much choice in food, from sashimi to salad and to hot curry dishes and dim sum. It was a weird mixture, but it worked because you could choose from anything, I don't think there's anywhere similar, that is as good in the UK. The had some pretty awesome puddings too - I had chocolate fountain, American cheesecake, a chocolate mousse and a pandan pancake, you know, I haven't really had any sweets in a while and it was all paid for, so...






After The Royal Garden we went to the Hong Kong Museum of History, I was surprisingly underwhelmed. I usually really go for museums and enjoy them, but there was something about this place. Maybe it was because it was too fact-heavy, I knew nearly everything and what I didn't know, I wasn't interested in. I think what the main problem was my sister taking about 10 years to look at everything, she examined every detail of each plaque and we were there for nearly 3 hours, which would have been fine if I had been enjoying it, but I just ended up bored and frustrated. I think the slow pace meant that even the parts of Hong Kong history that I am interested in had the enthusiasm sucked out of it. It's quite a patriotic place too, which I thought was a bit strange for a museum, I don't mean it in a bad way, it's just something I've never really experienced before.







We then did a bit of shopping around Mong Kok, and I picked up a neat underwater 35mm camera, which I look forward to using on the beach in France at the end of August. I hope it works as it's much cheaper than buying disposable underwater cameras and I already have the film, it might be alright. Then we went to the Tsim Sha Tsui ladies market, which was fun until I got tricked into haggling for a bag I didn't even want, it's a nice bag, I just don't feel much of an affinity for it. We all hopped on the bus once we found each other (my sister and I got separated from my mum and cousins) and we headed over to Sai Kung, a small fishing town on the other side of Kowloon. I couldn't see much because it was very dark by then but we went to a restaurant that was right on the harbour which had fishtanks full of fresh seafood to pick from for dinner. I've never seen anything like that before. The supermarkets here and Oriental supermarkets in the UK as well as some restaurants do allow you to pick live seafood, I suppose, but nowhere near on this scale or with this much choice! The restaurants even allowed you to hold some of their produce, my Mum took one for the team and held up a huge lobster, bigger than any I've ever seen. The meal was great but the journey back was a bit of a pain because it was so far away from where we were and it was very late.









Yesterday was easily my favourite day so far, just because there was less travelling and more taking the time to do things, even though it was busy, it was still enjoyable. I loved taking so many pictures and having so many fun things to take picture of, this does however exclude the museum, but that's just me, I think everyone I was with loved it.
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