Hongkong’s Fireworks on Labor Day

Last night, on the occasion of Labor Day, we three had an unexpected opportunity to see fireworks at Victoria Harbor in Tsin Shatsui.

We arrived at the place 45 minutes before the show, scheduled at 8 PM. All the roads leading to the harbor were blocked for people to walk to the scene, managed by many policemen…

So many people gathered at the pier as we arrived. Everyone was so eager to wait for the event, particularly the foreigners.

Loud speakers repeatedly announced the countdown of the light show in Cantonese, Mandarine and English as well.

Everybody focused out to the sea, particularly the fireworks launching boat. And finally the light festival started exactly at 8 PM.

Cellphones and cameras tried to capture the best angles of colorful firework scenes for 10 minutes.

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After the symphony of light, people start moving out of the harbor peacefully and orderly…

The expectation of disorder and stampede didn’t exist and we peacefully leave the show.

It was an interesting experience for me on the Labor Day since it is a public holiday in Hongkong.

Tomorrow I leave this territory after a six-day visit to the land of the Chinese outside of China mainland…

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* Video clip: Fireworks in Hongkong
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Waiting eagerly

Victoria Harbor

Hongkong’s skyline at night

My daughter

Everybody relaxed... waiting for Labor Day's fireworks

Here comes the light festival

Fireworks at sea

It’s all red

Light flower

Greenfield!

The light against Hongkong skylines

Just relax & enjoy the show!

Sea of red water

The booming of light

Look at the sea at this moment

My daughter and her husband

After the lights end

People leaving the harbor

Leaving the scene...

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Hongkong‘s peculiar food!

Vietnamese and Hongkonger’s foods are somewhat similar.

However, as soon as we arrived here, special culinary is found in the process of local cooking dishes, namely duck.

Peking Duck is famous dish since the Imperial Era in China. The seasoned meat is characterized by its crispy skin and meat, often eaten with spring onion, cucumber and rolled by homemade pancakes…

We’ve tried Peking Duck in a small, dim but well decorated restaurant called Monogamous Chinese. The food was so delicious!

There are also Peking Duck “Hongkong Style” called “Pizza Duck”, which is different from what we often taste in the rest of the world. It’s quite an experience to taste Pizza and Duck in Hongkong!

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By the entrance of the restaurant

You can see how narrow is the restaurant entrance

Decoration at the entrance

Decoration at the entrance

Inside the restaurant

The three of us at the Monogamy Chinese Restaurant to taste Peking Duck

Monogamy's menu

A complete set of the Chinese Duck

A half of the Chinese Duck

Chinese duck wrapped by a homemade pancake

Leaving the restaurant by narrow & sloppy stairway

Duck Pizza can be ordered in Hongkong

A close-up of the Duck Pizza

 

A piece of Duck Pizza which can only seen in Hongkong!

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Hongkong#5: Hop-on & Hop-off City Tour by double decker bus.

This unique hop-on hop-off double-deck bus tour allows tourists to see all of Hong Kong’s highlights with ease and interesting!

Hop-off at any of the stops along the route and explore the siates at your leisure using a provided map and then you can hop-on at the next bus stop. Or you can stay on the bus during the whole trip… just to watch the scenes along the road!

You can walk to see the famed Stanley Market, or the fishing village of Aberdeen. Your 24- or 48-hour ticket grants you access to various sites as soon as you leave the bus.

To get back, you can keep on sitting the next bus to discover other places of interest or stay on the bus for the whole trip.

Tourists on these dougle-decked busses are mostly foreigners who don’t have enough time to visit interesting places of Hongkong.

It’s a quite experience to hop-on and hop-off the tourist busses but the tickets are a bit more expensive anyway!

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From the upper deck you’ll see interesting places around the city or walk to see for yourself at the hop-off stop.

Pagoda

Churh

Two-deck-busses

People walking across the street

Museum

Street walkers

Waiting for signal to cross the street

Various kind of bus

Differnt colors of bus

Traffic on a narrow street

Narrow street against tall buldings

A taxi waiting at the red light

An over-pass ahead

Traffic at the red light

A bus stop

Sloppy road ahead

Road signs

Kowloon & Wan Chai

 Skyscrapers

Hop-on & Hop-off Guide to explore the city

Routes to explore the City

Tourists can follow the guide through earphone

Enjoy the city tour!

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