Kowloon Park and goose for lunch

I then walked up to Kowloon Park thinking that I would get some respite from the crowds. No such luck. It was really, really busy. Kowloon Park is known for its statues and its fountains. It was nice but because it was so windy, you couldn't go anywhere near the fountains. You couldn't go up the steps and have a look properly because you were getting absolutely soaked where the wind was blowing the water. So I walked through, and took a few photos - that was it.

At this point I'd done 16,000 steps. So I went to find a restaurant to have some lunch. I chose a local place that was full of local people, no tourists. I'd passed quite a few that only had a menu in Chinese. I thought that was a step too far. So the one that I chose did have English translations in tiny print underneath the Chinese writing. I went in and ordered the roast goose. They were doing a plate for one which I thought was quite good. I got roast goose plus one topping. And hilariously for me, the toppings were other meats. So you could have barbecue pork or steamed chicken or chicken in soy sauce. So I had roast goose with steamed soy chicken. It came with a bowl of plain rice, some interesting sauces which were delicious, and a pickled cucumber salad. I'm not a fan of cucumber, but the liquor that was in the bowl was really nice when I had it with my rice. As yesterday, I had to share a table with another diner. When I arrived there was another single lady sitting at the table that I was directed to. I don't know what the etiquette is about sharing your table in this country, but when they brought her lunch, it looked delicious. I told her so and asked her what it was. I may well go back and have that another day because it did look really good. When she had finished her meal, I was quickly joined by a solo male. The rest of my meal wasn't so pleasant because he slurped and burped his way through his plate of jellied something or other. It really didn't look very pleasant to me, but he seemed to be enjoying it. So that was my lunch experience today, and I paid for it with my Octopus card, which made me very happy.

After lunch, I headed back to the hotel. There, I did my diary and watched Michael Palin's, documentary series about the Philippines because that's where I'm considering going next 😃.Read more