Today we made a short trip into the New Territories and took a bus out to Sai Kung, a small coastal town. On the way, we stumbled upon the Hong Kong Design Institute - a eerie, cloud city design school with mesmerizing exterior structure. Found ourselves in a Red Dot Design show in the gallery and felt strangely at home. With front row seats on the double decker bus, we were whisked away from the city, seeing less high-rises and more trees and mountains beyond. We arrived in Sai Kung hungry and met up with a native Hong Konger, Pam, who is a friend of Will's. She decided this would be her chance to let us experience every Dim Sum dish ever and we ate until we could not eat any more. Notables from this meal included chicken's feat and cow's stomach, mmmmmmm. Every restaurant along the water had these stepped tanks filled with sea life I have never seen. Prehistoric beasts that somehow made it into the food we had just consumed. Oh and groupers the size of a person! After letting Pam negotiate prices with the people trying to get us to ride their boats, we were off. Loud, smoky and full of character, our little vessel took off to one of the small islands that dot the New Territories. Hiked around crackling rocks and barnacles; hussled to beat the tides, we were doing well to work off our lunch. We waited for our boat to return along a railingless pier and were met with sunset as we returned to port. Took the crazy public bus back to Hong Kong; somehow survived the traffic; somehow found my bed.
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