Our plane left for Hong Kong at 8:15 AM, which means we needed to be at the airport at 6:15. Which means I was awake at 4:50. So the zombie version of me stumbled onto the bus and we were headed towards one of Shanghai's two airports by 5. Because Hong Kong is sorta-kinda-not really a part of China, we needed to go through customs at the airport. But that all went went smoothly.... what didn't go smoothly was that Michael, our beloved courier for the whole trip, would not be joining us in Hong Kong. We said goodbye to him before we went through security.
It was a brisk few hours to the island of Hong Kong!
First thing different about Hong Kong: Everyone is on the wrong side of the road!!
As we started to enter the heart of Hong Kong, we saw their famous shipping port. All of your "made in china" delicacies... a good chunk of them are shipped from here.
Dats a lot of boxes....
After we checked into the hotel Zack Lee's dad met us (who lives in Hong Kong) and took us to the greatest dinner experience I have ever had......
First we went down by the docks at the ocean which was about a 15 minute drive. Here, there were numerous tanks with different types of fish. Zack Lee's father told us the story of when he would go to the states and they would have signs at the grocery store saying "fresh fish!" But he would always says "How are they fresh? These fish are dead." THIS is fresh fish:
Shrimp and other assorted small ocean creatures...
Very giant crab....
So if you haven't already guessed it, we were here to select our dinner. First, they grabbed us some big netfuls of shrimp....
The rule "don't play with your food" doesn't apply here.
More dinner selections...
We grabbed a few of the cuttlefish too.... if you want to see it in action, I took a video of it:
Remember those shrimp you saw? Here they are!! To eat, first rip off the head, then peel of the legs, and then take of the skin. Once all this is done, you can enjoy some of the best shrimp you have ever had.
Remember the cuttlefish? Tada! Kind of weird to think I was looking at this thing squirming around 20 minutes ago....
And down it goes....
After having one of the best cultural experience I have had in a long time, we headed down to central Hong Kong to watch the famous light show. This light show is the biggest set up in the world.
As the 15 minute light show came to an end, I started to remember that tomorrow would be my last day in China.... well okay, Shanghai was technically my last day in "China", but you know what I mean.... I had experienced so much, it was hard to believe it was already almost over.
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