So this post is a bit delayed and I really have no excuse to offer except that being an adult is apparently very tiring so sometimes I just would rather go to bed at 10pm instead of writing….
Last weekend my friend and I took the ferry to one of Hong Kong’s outlying islands Cheung Chau. It’s a somewhat smaller island but they have amazing street food. Needless to say we spent a great deal of our time on the island eating. There was fresh juices, mango shaved ice, potato spirals (think chips not fries), baked clams in the shell, and steaming ice cream that we bought specifically for the steaming part. And all of it was delicious. Although the one downside is that since food and seafood in particular is such a big thing there you are hit with many, strong, overlapping scents that can be a bit off putting while you’re eating…. there’s also the fact that people are selling dead sea creatures all along the road in the hot sun (I’ll let you imagine that particular scent).
Another really cool thing about Cheung Chau is that no one on the island has cars. There are police cars and such, but all the regular people ride bikes only. And I do mean everyone from tiny children to grandparents and even the occasional dog! It makes it really easy to walk in the roads and stuff without worrying about getting hit (although in my experience bikes can also be a menace).
One of the popular tourist attractions in Cheung Chau is the pirate cave which of course I had to go to even though it required a rather arduous hike to get to. This cave is said to have been a stash place/hideout for the famous Hong Kong pirate Cheung Po Tsai in the 19th century, an today visitors can have the experience of climbing down into it and walking/crawling through the VERY small and VERY dark tunnel (keep in mind my previous mentions of the humidity in this part of the world as well)… which of course we did!
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