Yesterday‘s typhoon brought with it quite a bit of rain, meaning I couldn’t go to Ocean Park today. So I stayed indoors, did some more research and only stepped out post lunch to begin ‘day 3’ in Hong Kong.
I decided to check out the tallest building on Hong Kong island
Walk straight and you enter IFC mallThe 88-storey International Financial Centre
The mall had the usual high street brandsMajor development work taking place outsideA major architecture firm had many of their past projects on displayThey did a masterplan for Pudong (Shanghai). Spent quite some time reading up on their work.The main reason I came to IFC mall is because Hong Kong’s official Apple store is located here. As much as I was tempted to pick up the iPhone 4S from here, I knew I would regret it in a few months time.Took this from a walkway outside the mallThis takes you to the Star Ferry terminalI decided to walk around some more
I believe this was some complex called The Landmark
By now I’m sick of malls. After a while they all start to look the same, and it takes a lot to impress me these days. I didn’t bother taking many photos of the malls I went to.
Sir Thomas Jackson, the chief manager of The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation – or HSBC as it’s known today. The bank’s building is behind.
I took the metro and got off at Wan Chai as I decided to look for Hong Kong’s gurudwara – a sikh temple.
Despite real estate being very expensive, they still have plenty of playgrounds for the general publicBehind the swank office buildings are the older residential units. Which will most likely be replaced by swanky new buildings when their time comes.That’s an example of a swank residential buildingAfter lots of walking, I eventually found the gurudwara
I washed my feet, and wore the head scarf before entering the prayer hall.
Nice to experience an Indian connection when abroadI walked around the gurudwaraThey have other facilities for the Sikh community too
I went downstairs to the dining hall and although I had no intentions of eating early, two Indians there insisted I have a meal since I’m here.
So I ate
It felt nice to eat simple dal (lentils), chaawal (rice) and roti (bread) even if it wasn’t the best of preparations. Whenever you are in a foreign land, even the simplest of Indian dishes taste better than you expect. What was nicer to see was poor Chinese workers and other tourists also eating here. After all, serving meals to anybody and everybody, irrespective of race and religion is the Sikh way at a gurudwara.
I left the Sikh temple after having a cup of teaI walked down Queens RoadEvening traffic had begunThe roads aren’t too wide in Hong Kong, but because public transportation is so good here, the jams aren’t too chaotic or longI found myself at a wet market (panorama comprised of 7 shots)Hong Kong being an island obviously means there’s plenty of fish in the seaThis is the Bowrington Road wet marketBut this isn’t exclusively a fish marketI had been walking for nearly two hours nowAs the sun sets, the neon lights come aliveI walked all the way back to my room and called it a an early night
