Sunday in Hong Kong, crowded crowded

Got cell phones today, now we are hip to the chinese technology, except ours are on the bottom of the totem poll as far as technologically advanced. We met up with Vivi, a buddy of ours from the PolyU program and got some vietnamese food for lunch. Her friend Elaine joined us and we explored Hong Kong Island for a while, getting to see what crowded streets in sweltering hot temperatures was really like.

We stopped by a local park with some beers we had bought and walked around. The park had a small zoo in it with some orangoutangs, monkeys, snakes, lemurs, and a few other animals. We hopped on the MTR and headed up to Mong Kok where there was an outdoor street market featuring tons of cheap and bargainable wares for sale. Also on the street were performers who would stand on a chair frozen and perform only when tipped, and then freeze until they were tipped again.

In Mong Kok we had our first official street food that included curry fish balls, vegetable dumplings, and beef organs (stomach, lung, intestines, and others). It was very cheap food and quite good, some of us liked certain dishes more than the others...

Finally we stopped in a local Game Station and played some arcade games. It was packed with people of all ages, some looking like they had been there longer than they may care to admit. Walking down the stairs into the arcade (yes, it was in a basement) there was a sign that stated, "No one allowed in under age of 16 or in a school uniform." It was a fun day out with Elaine and Vivi, they showed us some new parts of the city and introduced us to some new foods as well.