Visit the Po Lin Monastery and plan to get the deluxe vegetarian lunch.
Michelin star dim sum at affordable prices. Tim Ho Wan at Central Station HK. If you are coming in from the Airport Express, very convenient to stop for lunch. Pork buns and sticky rice in lotus leaf are musts, especially the pork buns…
We ate at Tim Ho our first day and will go back. Long line! Pork buns were the best I’ve ever had. We didn’t order stick rice, but will next time.
I think you mixed up Kowloon Tong and Kowloon City. The former has always been considered nice and wealthy area with some of the best schools and even single-family homes (a rarity and insanely pricy to buy) while the latter got the infamous Wall ghetto (though ghetto in Hong Kong is still pretty safe by US standard). They are next to each other though.
Yes they are next to each other. Kowloon Tong though way back also was known for having a lot of seedy love motels in the area. In fact Bruce Lee died in one of these motels. Mixed in amongst beautiful mansions.
Noticed this thread popped up again. We’'ve been back in the States for five months now. Miss Hong Kong! We spent the whole time in our very spartan quarters on campus, but with so much spending money it was not bad at all. I’m very glad that we were located where we were. Every time we went to Central I felt like it was stuffed with ex-pats. Kowloon felt much more Chinese.
I had to spend a bit too much time on the lap top the first month trying to tweak drawings for clients using a program that was not designed for that at all. We hiked almost every weekend, went to Taiwan for a few days and to the Chinese mainland twice. (Three times if you include going to Shenzhen for dinner once.) One trip to Shanghai and Huang Shan the other to Beijing, Xian and Guilin. I took Chinese ink painting classes once a week and took one dim sum cooking class. Never got to Macau or the New Territories. Still tons of trails we could have done. I’d love to do the entire Maclehose trail.
For a while it looked like dh might be part of a grant that would have had us returning for a month for the next five years, but alas they had to change the focus and it no longer makes sense in terms of his research. Ah well!