March 16, 2009

• Pretending HKG Tourist part 2 – Cheung Chau

    It was a beautiful weekend  in HKG however the Winter seems not going away as the temperature suddenly dropped to 13C on Friday night so it was a cool Saturday after having brunch with my friend we eventually decided to go to one of the outlying islands in HKG –  Cheung Chau ( Long Island) hm…last time I was here should be 1996 before I moved over to Vancouver.

  The ferry ride to Cheung Chau from Central HK Island was about 45 minutes, once you step out or the ferry pier , you will see how busy the place is…as Cheung Chau is one of the most popular week-end place to the HKG locals they usually spend 1 or 2 nights here for a very short break specially during  Summer as can find a nice long beach here where u can do waterspots remember this is the place where the Li Lai Shan was born and  started her wind surfing career and got her(as well as Hong Kong) First Olympic Gold Metal in 1996 Atlanta Olympic Game

  Inside the Ferry, and the woman next to me was eating, which is very common with the local, I remember when I was a kid I used to buy a bowl of  instant noodle with fried egg and Luncheon meat from the food kioks in the ferry

  

  Leaving the Central  Ferry Pier

  

  Approaching Cheung Chau after about a 45 mins ride

  

  

  The main street off the Ferry Pier

  

  The main beach of Cheung Chau –  Tung Wan actualy I had my very first swim here at the age of 8

  

  Here’s the place where we could rent the lockers, have snack , drinks and for the adults they could even play Mah-Jong here while the kids are having fun on the beach!

  

  The is actually the kitchen of a restaurant

  

  Cheung Chau is still a Fishermen village

  

  Dried sea food for sale

  

  walk along the hill…..a mini hiking…

   

  finding the way to the Cheung Po Chai(Tsai) Cave a place where the accient priate put their treasure

  

  here is  the entrance of the cave  this is my 2nd time at this place the first time was in 1979 when I was 13 with a gorup of school mates and I was one of the few who didn’t go into it, and now in 2009 I just dare to take a picture only so I have never seen those Treasures

  

  after all the walk took the Kai-To(small boat ride) back to the main street

  

  on the way and the weather was beautiful

  

  Home of the fishermen?

  

  at the fishermen village of course you can find those Sea food restaurnat

  

  we ended the day tour with some street food, curry fish ball and fish meat Siu Mai(kind of dunpling)

  

  How could my entry without food pictures! At night back to CauswayBay HK Island we had this family style Indian Food restaurant

  Tandoori Lamb

  

  Basmatic Rice and Nann Bread

  

  Cottage chesse Spinach

  

  Murgh(Chix) Makhani

  

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