A Peek from the Peak

I had been in Hong Kong for about three weeks now and still had not gone to Victoria Peak. So last night I changed that.

I grabbed my camera and my laptop and went on a solo mission to visit the Peak and get lost in the city. After three trains and the tram, I finally arrived at the top of Hong Kong.

It's beautiful there. You really get a sense of the splendour of Hong Kong and the lights and beauty is really not describable. So I won't try to. All I can do is offer a few shots I took last night:

The pictures are a mere description friends. Being at the Peak, surrounded by the light and the grand scale of the vista is a near religious experience. You must go at some point in your life. This was my second time, and much better than my first as the first time was just for 10 minutes as part of an awful tour. Being at the Peak last night was like one of those rare moments when you know you have realized a dream and are in the midst of living out a great episode of your life.

I took out my laptop and started to write for awhile until I killed my battery. Walked about a bit and snapped some pictures. Good times.

Well I got hungry and decided to head back. Along the way I stopped in a local Shanghainese restaurant in Mong Kok and had Xiao Long Bao and Ko Ruo Mian. Xiao Long Bao is a specialty from Shanghai where the steamed pastry encompasses a delicious soup and savoury meat filling. The noodle soup wasn't bad and the pork had a nice slow cooked flavour.


The food was delicious, but let me tell you something. I have had better Shanghai food back in Vancouver. Isn't that a kick in the pants?