We woke up on the 2nd day, and I was still pretty sickish from the travelling. But we didn't come to Hong Kong to sleep in a hotel room and watch the eight chinese and two english channels on TV.

We dragged ourselves out of bed, and made our way to the streets. We walked the opposite direction from Temple Street in the rain. That's right, in the miserable morning rain. People said that there was a nearby typhoon bringing all this rain - we just kind of shrugged it off and bought ourselves umbrellas.

We ended up walking the same distance the taxi took us last night, which was very far. We finally ended up in Langham Plaza, a nice little shopping mall with quaint Hong Kong shops like Starbucks and McDonalds.

Cynicism aside, we did end up in a nice little restaurant selling a set breakfast. Hong Kong is huge on set everythings - breakfast, lunch, dinners. It's the Chinese sleight-of-hand to lure customers into their shop. No Chinese person can refuse a good deal!

Handy Hong Kong Tip #1:
There are a few drinks which are the staple of the Hongkongers:

1) Lai cha - literally, milk tea. What they do, you see, is make tea. And then put some milk in it. And then ice, if you're so inclined. (It's quite nice and sweet, actually).

2) Ling cha - literally, lemon tea. You can have it hot or cold, depending on whether or not you're a tourist from Malaysia with the sniffles.

3) Don't cha - wish your girlfriend was hot like me. Sorry, couldn't resist.

and the new craze in town -

3) RIbena with lemon. Now you can actually have some Vitamin C. From the lemon, I mean, since that Australian school girl proved there wasn't much Vitamin C in Ribena.

Set breakfast - instant noodles, soup, mystery meat, token broccoli, hot lemon tea. Ribena lemon - get ready to pucker your lips and squint your eyes - sour! 

Hongkongers eat a limited variety of things for breakfast - the basic noodles/macaroni in soup and then you just throw in whatever you want into the soup(sausages, bacon, luncheon meat, eggs). Some will have oatmeal porridge or even a western breakfast (sausages, bacon, luncheon meat, eggs). Or you can have just a sausage. Or a bacon. Or a piece of luncheon meat. Or just eggs.  

I had no choice but to order the soup as I needed to feed the little critters invading my immune system. Bah.

It was quite a nice experience. Different, because the nasi lemak, roti canai option is not readily available at hand (oh, the things we take for granted!), yet interesting.  

Now somewhat charged, we walked around the shopping mall a bit, and then headed out into the rain again.

 One of the quaint sights of Hong Kong - old men engaging in an age old hobby - squatting... I mean, Chinese Chess.  

Temple Street - come to think of it, I never saw the temple. I remember Karen Mok being the tai kah che ( 'big sister') of this street in Stephen Chow's Sek San ('God of Cookery').