China

My Kind of Town

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20 Sep 2016 • 4 min read

Can you guess which one's the real SmallPaw?

Hi everyone!

So I hear Mami has been moaning about the heat a bit and I can see why she wouldn't like it (SmallPaw and I get to spend a lot of time being ferried around in the buggy) but there's so much good stuff here that totally makes up for the weather!

First and foremost, the FOOD! I think even Mami would agree with me here that the food makes it all totally worth it. (Although I heard Papi say that it's even better in Tokyo. I can't WAIT for that place!!!) Today we had one of the best food days sadly without any pictures. Mostly because it was all so good that no one had time to take a picture before we all gobbled it up... We had Taiwanese noodles for lunch at Iron Cow and eggettes on the street for dessert (egg waffles made with coconut milk). So yummy.

We did get a few pictures in from some of our other meals though, especially from the funny dim sum place.

Doggy dim sum. In other parts of the world known as pig-in-a-blanket.

SmallPaw was fearless - she at the whole thing: ears, eyes and all.

Oh, and we had noodles. Or as I like to call it, food of the gods.

I could eat this all day long. Maybe with some tomatoes and olives thrown in for good measure every once in a while.

But it's not all food. We're doing touristy stuff too. The other night we even stayed out way past our bedtime to see a light show over the harbour! It wasn't actually that impressive in the end but hey, we got to stay up late! Yay!

That's the Star Ferry which crosses between Hong Kong and Kowloon every 10 minutes or so. Best way to see the city skyline. And the cheapest way too.

Going across on the ferry from Hong Kong to Kowloon.

See that boat with the red sails there? That's an old junk or maybe it's just made to look like one?

The sunset was quite beautiful although I didn't actually see much of it. Had a little nap to stay strong for the light show. Which turned out to be a bit boring. Oh well, can't win them all...

The Hong Kong skyline with all the pretty colored lights.

We've also gone to the botanical garden which was quite nice (and free!) but that day it really was very hot, I have to agree. Still, we saw monkeys and turtles and played on the swings. And spent time sitting on benches and just looking around.

I wish they'd come out to play. I couldn't climb in unfortunately. (I tried, believe me...)

Best daddy in the world. I'm with ya, SmallPaw.

Oh and we went to the Maritime Museum too. That was pretty great actually. Some fun hands-on stuff to play with and lots of beautiful, little, wooden boats to look at. Sadly they wouldn't let me touch those.

When we arrived the mid-autumn lantern festival was happening so we saw some nice decorations all around town. But these were definitely my favourite, outside the Space museum:

Unfortunately the space museum doesn't have any exhibitions on at the moment, only movies. But seeing these two go up in their rocket was fun too.

Today we took the bus over to Kowloon and we got to sit at the top up front! What a view! It was almost like a special bus tour just for us. Great fun.

There's Chinese and English writing all over the city which makes it easier to navigate apparently. I wouldn't know since I can't read. But I'm glad Mami and Papi know where to go.

Some of the buildings are super-shiny and new while others look old and crazy like this one. The whole city is like that, going from one extreme to the other, sometimes even on the same block.

Today it actually rained a bit so the temperatures came down a little. Let's hope that'll make Mami happy for our last day here tomorrow. :)

Bye for now,
BabyPaw