Science and good food

Due to my illness and the storm situation going on outside, we chose to spend the morning drinking lemsip and booking a hostel for Hanoi (our next destination). 

With that sorted we took a ride on a tram to Central. The trams look like double decker buses but tall and thin, not unlike the knight bus in Harry Potter (obviously only two levels though). It was a little slower than we originally thought but was super cheap, less than 20p for a ride. From central we took a ferry to Kowloon which is the main land (only takes like 10 minutes but again super cheap, we were having a cheap day) so that we could visit the history and science museums. Unfortunately, the history museum was shut so we settled for science and ended up spending 3 hours in there, pressing lots of buttons and attempting many quizzes. Rather enjoyable but not the most educational. 

We then headed back to the pier, stopping for a while to look at Hong Kong Island skyline again before getting a ferry back for some tea. We'd read up about this restuarant that was one of the best in Hong Kong (called Tim Ho Wan if anyone fancies googling it). It had expanded and so now has a few places across the city. We chose one in central and were expecting a massive queue as we'd walked past a few days before and seen one. Luckily, the queue was very short and we were seated quickly. My taste hasn't completely returned but I could get a lot of the flavour, the best being a baked bun with barbecue pork. The bun was a little sweet and instead of a soft dough it was quite crispy. The barbecue pork was just plain lovely. Definitely worth a visit. 

After tea we got the metro to Tin Hau, one stop away from our hostel, so we could get some ice cream from a place we'd heard about. They use liquid nitrogen so they don't use any additives in their ice cream. The place had 3 kitchen aids lined up which they used to make the ice cream (Zoe Anderson, you would have loved it), pouring the liquid nitrogen in followed by the ice cream mix. Very cool. I chose a salted ice cream with caramel which was quite nice but not as good as it sounds. I regret not going for the white chocolate and Greek yoghurt with strawberry sauce (definitely would have been my mothers choice).