Hong Kong – Day 16 – Shelby's Travels

Hong Kong – Day 16

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Shelby Nook

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November 24, 2023

I got to sleep in a little bit today. I FaceTimed my parents for Thanksgiving and chatted for a while before heading to meet Elena at her office building. Doug and I took the ferry across Victoria Harbor to Kowloon.

Wet market at the entrance to the ferry.

Lunch!

Char siu (Chinese bbq pork), fried peppers stuffed with pork, fried shrimp with mayo sauce, xiao long bao (pork soup dumplings), bbq pork buns

Not sure what’s inside these but the wrapping is purple sweet potato rice roll

Shrimp shumai

So much food, we needed to walk it off. Walked along Tsim Sha Tsui Waterfront Park to Avenue of Stars. There is a huge fancy shopping mall over there called K11 Musea.

The Peninsula Hotel

Now onto the Hong Kong Palace Museum!

These artifacts come from the Palace Museum of the Forbidden City in China. The two pictures below, along with a lot more artifacts, were only discovered 1-3 years ago from within 6 sacrificial pits from Sanxingdui dating back 2600-4500 years ago.

There were so many cool artifacts from The Forbidden City and I learned a lot about it and the Qing Dynasty, followed by the uprising of Mao and the Communist party.

It was dark when we came out. There was the Hong Kong Winterfest going on in West Kowloon Art Park, so we walked that for a bit and grabbed a drink. I was even approached to do an interview from the news on the event.