Hong Kong day 9 & 10

Had an early start this morning to catch the 7.45 ferry over to the main island, then rode the underground for an hour, right to the top of Hong Kong, and met Angel and her family. I was told several times to make sure I got off at the right stop, otherwise I'd end up at the Chinese border 🤣
We were going for lunch with Angel's Grandpa who is a monk and has been for over 25 years. He's a master, so even Angel and her mum called him Shifu (like in Kung Fu Panda hehe) which translates to master in Cantonese. He lives in a small complex of buildings with his student, Ting Zi, who cooks and looks after him. They don't eat after 12 to better focus on meditation, so have a big meal at 11. When we got there we said hello, looked around then I followed the family up to a room with a shrine where the food was blessed and lit incense. Shifu got two puppies over a year ago for security as they got robbed a couple of times. They were now fully grown pups, but are so scared. They barked relentlessly when we got there, but wouldn't get closer than a few metres before running away.
Ting Zi cooked up an absolutely huge spread of vegan food including 'fried eggs', 'prawns' and 'char sui' (BBQ pork). Even though monks can't eat a lot of spices, or onion or garlic for religious reasons, it was still sooo delicious.
I then sat and 'talked' to Shifu, where he told me about Buddhist teachings in Cantonese and Angel had to translate. Towards the end, her translation was 'he's basically saying lots of metaphors'. He was impressed that I'd been vegetarian my whole life, and told me to thank my mum for raising me that way. When I showed him some photos of Buddhist temples I'd seen in Vietnam and Thailand, he told me to visit the ones in France.
I got sent home with tubs of leftover food as well as almost a month's supply of roasted peanuts 🤣
Angel's dad works as a policeman and is on night shifts, so he headed back whilst the rest of us took a train to Tseung Kwan O and cycled along the promenade on bikes. The humidity made for an extremely hot ride and some unfortunate, yet absolutely hilarious sweat patches.
For dinner we went to a vegetarian buffet, the food was surprisingly tasty! I spose I associate buffets back home with pretty rubbish food, but everything I tried was delicious, I wish I could've eaten more!
The next day I ate some of the best food I'd had so far! We went to a renowned vegetarian dim sum restaurant, which had a cancellation so we were able to get in.
Absolutely stuffed to the brim, we then went to one of the only things I had on my list for Hong Kong which was the cup noodle museum! Not sure why it was called a museum as there was no exhibit, but we got to draw on a cup to create our own design, pick the broth flavour and toppings, then watch them assemble and seal it up like a proper pot noodle! Was very exciting and a good bit of fun. We were all so full from lunch, didn't bother with dinner.もっと詳しく