If nothing's ever changed, there'd be no butterflies

First blog in 2 days as I spent yesterday travelling to Hong Kong and just walking round the island a little, trying to find somewhere to watch a football match so I didn't think there would be much to write. However, I will now say that it's bloody hot. Not sunny, just humid and sweaty. Imagine the tube in London in summer, but hotter. Occasionally it feels like it's an effort to breath. 

Our hostel is in Fortress Hill which is North East of Hong Kong Island. The metro is very cheap but this morning we chose to walk to Central. It took us about an hour but we got to see the harbour and lots of different streets along the way. However, we got to the pier which is the start of central and spontaneously decided to get a ferry instead. It took us to the mainland (we didn't initially know where we were going) and only cost about 20p. 

Once there we chose to find some food and settled for a restaurant in some kind of little shopping mall. Only then did we discover it's supposed Michelin star. It's called Din Tai Fung but has quite a few branches therefore I'm doubting the star. We chose braised beef and noodle soup and some rice and pork wontons. The wontons were quite nice, especially when dipped in a mix of vinegar, soy sauce and ginger. The soup itself tasted quite good with a hint of aniseed but it was obviously oily. The beef was covered in fat which is meant to help flavour everything and keep the meat moist but it wasn't nice in the soup and the beef didn't taste amazing. The flavour was quite strong but it was a bit too beefy (if that makes any sense). It's safe to say I was quite disappointed with the place. 

After lunch we strolled through Kowloon park, passing the avenue of comic stars (hadn't a clue who any of them were). Further up there was a market that is named Ladies Market. Haven't a clue why (Google will probably tell me) but it was full of clothes and accessories. Haggling is common and proves difficult when you realise you're far to British.  

Avoiding lots of harassing people we walked back towards the pier but went into the space museum on the way. We hadn't a clue what we were going to see but we went into a theatre room with a domed ceiling and were given 3D glasses and some headphones. The film lasted 35 minutes and was on the history of flying, be that animals and the creation of different flying man made machines. The coolest part was that the domed ceiling was the screen. The effects were amazing. We then walked round the museum, pressing lots of buttons and looking at cool figures of rockets or the solar system. 

By the time we left the museum it was dark and we wanted to see Hong Kong Island skyline so we headed for the pier and the symphony of lights (not knowing for sure what the symphony of lights was). It was 10 to 8 by the time we'd taken a couple of pictures of the fantasticly lit up Hong Kong Island (personally I think the skyline is better than Manhattan) and an announcement sounded to say the symphony of lights would start at 8. Perfect timing! It was a tad disappointing though. Thinking about it, buildings lighting up along the harbour in time to music is quite genius but we were expecting something along the lines of crazy Christmas lights displays pn houses, just scaled up massively. It was still worth seeing though.