We met Gooma for dim sum at 8am. We had our typical fix. Then Gooma said she would take us to the famous egg tart restaurant, which turned out to be the same as the pineapple bun place we went to yesterday for breakfast. We had egg tart, a new bun and milk tea.

Then Gooma gave us a tour of Kowloon city as she went to get groceries at the market. Driving in Hong Kong is crazy and it was hard to get over driving on the other side of the road.

After spending the morning with Gooma we ventured off on our own. We went to Diamond Hill MTR station to go to the Chi Lin Nunnery, which is built entirely without nails. It was quite breath-taking and again there was a park against a backdrop of the city.

Following the nunnery, we decided to take the MTR to the total other end of the city to Tung Choi station to go on the cable cars and to see the Big Buddha. And we found the ONLY outlet mall in the city! Ed bought a pair of pumas. I was not as fortunate.

The cable car ride was very high and with the wind, I was quite scared at times. But it was well worth it. The views were amazing and to see the Big Buddha in the distance was neat. We made our way to Ngong Ping and walked to the Big Buddha in record time. We also visited the Po Lin Monastery which was not as nice as the Chi Lin Nunnery.

We met Kaufu for dinner at Pacific Place mall, which is near his office at the Police Headquarters. We had dinner at a nice Italian restaurant, we shared fettuccini nere ( black pasta with cream sauce and shrimp), risotto with goose liver (recommended by Kaufu), gnocchi with smoked salmon (this was my favourite), peking duck pizza (better than Café Deco’s, more duck) and Caesar salad and then apple tart with ice cream and tiramisu. All was very yummy and fatty and put our exercise to good use!

We didn’t have bubble tea again.

The Starbucks game score is at 8 to -1.