Hong Kong Part 2- Food (or what not to eat)

Anything that lives or once lived anywhere on our planet, can probably be found in Hong Kong.
Whether you want to eat it is your business.

Dim Sum craftsmen

Pigs feet with legs require a thorough wash

Fresh fish everywhere

The art of noodle making

Don't want to mess up the table

Um, so good

A festive afternoon 

They're sorting ginseng  from Wisconsin, apparently the best in the world

 Some food we liked, others we didn't

Anna asked a lot of questions, I wonder what dinner will look like when we get home.

 They say starfish are tasty but you want to dry them first.....

I can't seem to stay away from those pigs feet

There really are so many varieties of everything,
you could probably spend a lifetime sampling, if you were so inclined.

OK, we found the coolest wine lounge on the top of the Peninsula Hotel in Kowloon, but no pigs feet, damn!

Hong Kong Part 1- Places

Hong Kong and Kowloon from our window

Hong Kong is fairly self explanatory.

Water, earth, air and fire, the four ancient elements abound in this teeming city.  I took so many pictures it became difficult to choose, so I've divided this post into "places" and "foods". You can easily find the four elements in these pictures.

not sure what they mean here,  look carefully

markets are jammed between urban towers

urban tower!

night view from the star ferry

it never stops

taking our first ferry ride from HK to Kowloon

famous Star Ferry

                                                        Many, many  boats on the water

efficient trams abound

 Escalators in the "mid levels" take residents down the hill in the AM and up in the PM.  The twenty escalators are the longest outdoor covered system in the world!

I wonder if Jackie Chan ever worked here?

for sale

just a typical gargantuan apartment complex

Kowloon has become quite the shopping competitor to Hong Kong, We did our part!

We were lucky to witness this laser show one evening

 Near our hotel, is a small temple, where folks come to offer incense and food to the gods, I have to presume their prayers are answered or this sanctuary would have been out of business by now.

El Nido

On the northern tip of the Palawan  is Bacuit Bay, home of El Nido Resorts. We found it to be the most stunning array of islands and ocean either of us  have ever experienced. Corral reefs, incredible  beautiful fish, caves, shear limestone cliffs (over 250 million years old), wild beaches, it went on and on. We stayed on Lagen Island, a very comfortable place comprised of 50 cottages. The service was excellent and  our days were filled with island touring, snorkeling, beach combing and of course meeting new people over food and drink. Probably the best indication of our pleasure being there is that we lost track of time and never bothered to comb our hair!

Lagen resort

Cathedral cave entrance

sunset view from our water cottage

Monkeys playing in the back of the resort

Cudugnon cave

Inside the cave, a former burial site of the local tribes
French survivor TV show filmed here also

another view of Lagen resort

cliffs of the small lagoon

Ipil Ipil tree and local inhabitants

Getting around the islands with the banca boys

The other island resort, Miniloc, 20 min away by banca

Entalula beach club

Lagen Island, might also be the home of King Kong

the big lagoon at Miniloc Island

sunset at Lagen,  no that is not a pyramid, its an island

Snake Island, only visible at low tide

our cottage on the right

poolside

again, our cottage, last one on the right

shuttle bus from plane to banca

that's our plane!