Hong Kong day 5 & 6

Met angel in the centre again today, we tried to find vegetarian ramen for lunch but failed miserably, all the Japanese restaurants we tried had something meaty in the broth 😭 we settled for dumpling soup.
I then dragged us to a bakery which had some of the top-rated egg tarts in Hong Kong. There was a bit of a queue, but it moved really fast, they were going through trays of maybe 50 tarts every few minutes, which was pretty impressive to see. They were super crispy sourdough flakey pastry, pretty much like Pasta del Nata, so not the classic HK type, but so tasty.
In the afternoon we met Janie and visited one of the largest temples in the city. It was actually a nunnery, but had a beautiful garden. Even though you could see skyscrapers towering outside the garden wall, on the inside it was so peaceful.
We ventured to another famous street, fish street. Which had rows of shops selling fish, a lot of them rather cruelly kept in water-filled plastic bags hanging outside. There were also shops selling all sorts of animals from geckos and turtles to chinchillas and rabbits, puppies, kittens, crabs, spiders, you name an animal - you could probably buy it on this street. It was interesting to look around, but I did feel sorry for a lot of the animals. We walked past a cat store where there were cats on sale for up to £3000!!
On the way here, Janie bought us a stick of stinky tofu to try. It's a Hong Kong/ Chinese speciality, and you could smell the stall selling it from a few shops down. It smelt like a bin, which dwasn't appetising. Once covered in sauce, it actually tasted okay, but the aftertaste it left in your mouth was horrible. I definitely wouldn't eat it again haha.
For dinner we went to a vegetarian Thai restaurant, then found more Chinese sweet soup desserts afterwards.
The next day I wanted to do some hiking, but I woke up to the noise of the rain absolutely hammering down. In the afternoon, the weather had cleared up and I got a ferry to the largest of the 263 islands (most of which are uninhabited). I didn't have enough time to hike over to the next ferry stop, so instead I went on a mission to find this waterfall I'd seen on google. I saw it from a distance, but the two different paths I went on to try to see it properly were not successful. The latter of which took me to a part of the river above the waterfall, I could hear the water crashing down but with no obvious way to view it without taking a swim. Instead I looped over the top of a hill, down the other side back to the ferry port. Apart from a handful of people I saw visiting a smaller waterfall at the beginning of the path, I didn't see anyone else along the way, which was quite nice to be honest!Meer informatie