Hong Kong Markets!! and Geek Alert!

Wondering around Hong Kong streets was definitely our favorite activity! there is always so much life!! And the best are the street markets you encounter!

-The first market,

So many to choose from and so many colors!! 

-The flower market, 

You can buy flowers or a bouquet of stuff animals !?!? :)

-The bird market, 

Here you can buy some live bugs for your birds :)

They have as well lovely porcelain water containers! 

One market we could not miss out! was the Golden Computer center! where you can find every single electronic device! 

This place is huge!!!!! 

you can find your angry birds memory sticks here!

and get as well your super bling mobile covers!

Only in Hong Kong!!!

The day the Giant Buddha was hiding!

One of Hong Kong´s main attraction is to see the Giant Buddha in the Po Lin Monastery. We were not very lucky with the weather! it was raining a lot! and the cable car ride until the top of the mountain included a lot of emotion and bouncing back and forward :P

This was the first time the weather failed us! :P rain, colddddd!!! but we didn´t gave up to see Giant Buddha!

The happy entrance gate! 

Time to get the legs working! 

The best shot I could get! with some help from the dramatic mode of the camera :) one of our favorite

Some impressive statues,

We found this cute statue,

On the way back in the cable car we had zero visibility! and a lot of wind.. quite a spooky ride down!

Antonio not very happy about being soaking wet and super cold :P

Nothing that a great Hong Kong dinner wouldn´t fix :)

yummy dumplings!!! can improve anyone's spirit! 

Hong Kong Food.. just amazing!

If you´ve been following our blog for a while you´ve noticed we are major foodies!!! one of the best treats in this trip is to have the chance to taste the amazing local food of each country! If you like food... Hong Kong is heaven!! so many flavors and smells! ahhhh we miss you Hong Kong!!

Pumpkin duck! you have some real competition for our number 1 best food we had so far in this trip!! And your competition comes from Hong Kong! this amazing dumplings place.... Thet pork barbecue bun is just heavenly!

Yummy shrimp and pork dumplings, 

Look at this beauties, 

This gelo cube was dessert, with a flavor quite difficult to explain... it was sweet with tea herbs and it was sooo fresh!

This place was sooo good that had an extensive wall of fame,

Thank you Ekitzel for taking us to this amazing food feast!

After this amazing meal we had some desert! 

ice cream!!! 

Another Hong Kong delicacy is the cripy pork with mustard,

In Hong Kong is very common to see restaurants with fish tanks, so the customer can select the fish and be sure is fresh! 

In your table you always have the serving chopsticks and your eating chopsticks,

Is very common in Hong Kong to share a table with other people when the restaurant is crowded, this were our neighbors... both checking their emails! :P btw Hong Kong people are extremely high tech! they change so fast their mobile that there is plenty of second hand with some interesting deals. 

Hong Kong: A little box of surprises!

After Shenzhen we traveled to Hong Kong. The boarder crossing is quite interesting! It is just from one of Shenzhen´s metro stations to a Hong Kong´s station! You need to cross a huge bridge between the two stations in which you read a big billboard saying NO TURNING BACK :P

We were super excited to go to Hong Kong as we heard so much about it! Amazing food, shopping and full of business savvy people! All our expectations were met and even exceeded! 

The HK metro is amazing! covers a lot of ground! you can even reach Disneyland! 

In our first trip in the HK metro we made two friends :) 

They spoke perfect English and were super interested in why we were visiting Hong Kong :)

At this moment we thought: Toto we are not in China anymore! 

Hong Kong´s dynamic movement and people are sooo different from any major city in China! We felt HK as a completely different country... and it is as we had to show our passports and fill immigration papers. 

You still feel that British vibe in the air!

We stayed in Kowloon Island and took the very cheap star boat to visit the Hong Kong island,

Hong Kong island is dominated by impressive sky-raises,

In the ferry station there was this cute poster that explained the different types of people that visit HK:

From left to right: PlayPlay, BlingBling, YumYum and TechTech :D I think we were in between the YumYum and TechTech :)

I have to share as well this really cool publicity for a super yummy Soya Milk called VitaSoy!!!

I loved it so much that I had it everyday while in HK :P I´m missing it so muchhhh!!

In HK at night there is no way to get bored! there are so many night markets :) here the plus was that bargaining was not an aggressive activity as in China, where the vendors follow you and keep trying to get you to buy stuff. Here you can bargain, they give you their lowest price and if you want it, great! if not they will not come after you that much! so you can relax and browse. 

You can find an infinity of cutesy stuff (even more than in Tokyo!!!)

and a lot of Angry birds stuff!!!

HK is well known for being the Meca to buy branded items! We could not believe our eyes.. people queuing to buy these extremely expensive items :P or as we heard some people saying... it was just the mainlanders (Chinese) buying the original ones in order to start the fake production :P 

And the mother of them all! LV! :P

Another amazing view of the HK island is from the Peak!

Next Hong Kong fooodddddddd :)))))))))) The Pumpkin Duck has some competition!