Thursday 25/8

Landed in Hong Kong having managed to get a few hours sleep, and met Lloyd by 8am, going straight back to his via breakfast.  This was some sweet but delicious hot tea and toasted buns with a creamy syrup on it, or as Lloyd put it, a diabetic's ejaculation.  Sorry.

It was fairly warm as I navigated my bags through the busy streets.  Though I was here I few years ago, I struggled to get any orientation. At Lloyd's place I put my stuff in my tiny, but very much appreciated, room and got about an hour's sleep.  We packed bags with stuff for the beach and then headed out for Dim Sum.  This was much the same stuff as I had several times in Shanghai, that is, very good.  The only suspect thing was the dessert of warmish lentil soup, with another ingredient escaped me now.  If this stuff was appealing to anyone then every time they walked past a muddy puddle they would feel peckish.

By this point, it had started to rain and the weather was looking grim so heading for a beach wasn't going to happen.  We left the restaurant and walked in the direction of Lan Kwai Fong, for lack of a better idea.  We had a stroll around, with me trying to recollect what I might have done here several years ago.  Unsuccessfully.  We then headed into an area with lots of shops selling a mixture of incredibly expensive art, ivory sculptures (again, for ALL the money and sometimes labelled as 'mammoth') and some assorted tat.  Lloyd wanted a Chinese chess set but we found more normal sets than chinese ones.  I turned down the chance to buy Christiano Ronaldo poker sets or vintage Chinese pornography, or as they call it in China, "pornography".

Still stuck for ideas in the naff weather, we got foot massages in a place round the corner from his apartment.  He does this sort of thing.  It really did the trick after having done a lot of skiing recently.  I particularly enjoyed the knee pit element.

Back at Lloyds, we monged out in front of the TV again with some Daily Show and watched Shutter Island which I really enjoyed and woke up my slightly jet-lagged brain.  Thus when we headed out into the cooler evening I started to piece together where everything was and to appreciate the hecticness of being back in Hong Kong.  We headed out for some a couple of blue ladies at the local darts bar.  Blue Lady is a brand of beer.  I suck at darts, but sucked quite a bit less by the end of the third game.  I'd like to improve at this, it's frustrating not being any good.  Then onto a Japanese chain for some cheapish ramen and kimchi.

Back at Lloyds for the third time - his place is conveniently very central - we watched some dodgy zombie thing with the main guy from Teachers before calling it a night.