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Kowloon |
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Fruit Stand, Kowloon Street Market
Across the harbor from Hong Kong Island is the Kowloon peninsula with many of the best hotels, the famous Nathan Road shopping district, and
fascinating bird, flower, and street markets.
Shangri-La Hotel
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We stayed at the Shangri-La and upgraded to a harbour view room. The Peninsula, just down the street, is Hong
Kong's most famous hotel and would have been our first choice, but the Shangri-La was five-star luxurious, so
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If you book a harbour view room, be sure and specify an upper
floor or you'll find yourself looking at a crane. There's massive subway construction in the area - it made
getting around a navigational challenge, to say the least. |
Restaurants
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Yes, it's in a Holiday Inn (called the Golden Mile), but things are different in China,
and we had an absolutely delicious meal at Avenue, named one of Hong Kong's Best Restaurants by HK Tatler for four consecutive years. |
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We had a wonderful dim sum lunch at T'ang Court in the Golden Eagle Hotel - the setting's luxurious and
the food was excellent. But if you go, be sure to reserve a table well in advance. We called only the day
before and ended up having lunch at 2:30 p.m. |
Street Market Scenes
Flower Market Scenes
Bird Market Scenes
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Yes, they're grasshoppers. Yummy, yummy, in the tummy (if you're a bird, that is.) |
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