Hong Kong day 15, 16 & 17

Last few days in HK!
No crazy busy days, I did a little planning and prepping for my next destination.
The first day the family came over the Peng Chau. We played Mahjong for a lot of the day, which I'm definitely getting better at! I'm maybe 90% confidence I can recognise numbers 1-9 in Cantonese, and have picked up a few words for plays in the game, of which my favourite is 'pong!'. I won a grand total of £1.20.
In the afternoon we had a little stroll around the island, up the where Angel's grandpa is buried. The graveyards here are very space efficient like the housing. I didn't take any photos out of respect, but the graves were in almost like square bookshelves, in which each person getting a small concrete box where their ashes are places, with a square headstone sealing the front.
We had takeaway pizza for tea, my first takeaway in ages! Then me & Angel headed into the city centre to grab some drinks a meet a couple of her friends. Drinking here is so expensive! I got a £12 cocktail in the first bar, which is similar to back home, but my pint of craft beer in the second place was £8.80! I don't even think it was a pint, maybe 400ml, outrageous!
The next day, I had my last little solo day, in which I couldn't actually be bothered to do a lot. I had some sushi, then went to the heritage discovery centre. The permanent exhibit on HK culture was interesting, but the other exhibition on ancient pottery... not so much my thing 😅
The most exciting thing of the day was seeing flamingoes in a public park. They were introduced into the city for 'education' in 1989. I was enjoying watching them, until I realise they probably do something to them to stop them flying away, which made me sad :(
Last stop before venturing home was a Michelin guide dessert restaurant. I did not realise it's popularity or accolades until I got there, just found it on Google maps. Only had to queue for 10 minutes, and I greedily got two desserts as I couldn't decide/ didn't want to miss out! Both were very good.
On my final day, I met Angel and her parents for the annual Dragon boat racing, which is a public holiday, so everywhere was very busy! We watched one race, before an announcement of a 1 hour lunch break was made 😅 luckily I was pretty hungry, so we got lunch in a typical 'HK' dinner. The waiter kind of slammed my food down, I thought I'd done something wrong, but apparently this is typical HK service in these sorta places 🤣
After watching some more racing, we got a bit hot standing in the heat, so went back into the city centre into yet another cat cafe!
I then dragged Angel to a place I'd seen on google which was meant to be a cool photo spot. Coined 'monster apartment', it was just a impressively big block of flat crammed into a very small area, and did make a good photo!
We then reunited with her parents for one last meal, another veggie dim sum restaurant with a nice view of the city skyline.
In the evening, Angel came back to Peng Chau to supervise my journey to the airport tomorrow 😅 even though we had to catch a 7.30am ferry tomorrow, and I needed to pack in the morning, we still stayed up to 2am doing facemasks and watched Frozen 2 with a beer like proper adults 🤣Leggi altro