Almost forgot the big shopping discovery

When I return to the US I usually have to go to Hong Kong the night before because of the flight time. The last few times we have been staying at the Island Pacific Hotel because of the shuttle to the ferries and the train to the airport. Makes it easy. We went out and walked a few blocks from the hotel and made a big shopping discovery and I forgot about it until last night laying in bed awake because of jet lag. I bolted upright, just like in the cartoons, and said “Eureka I need to post that”.
So here it is the great new shop that we found on Des Voeux Rd west of Center St. in Hong Kong.

Since that is somewhat difficult to see here is a link to this in Google Street View.
My kind of store.

Dinner at La Cave

Went for dinner at La cave last weekend. La Cave is a French restaurant that we have occasionally gone to although not for the last couple years. To me it’s not so much a French restaurant as it is a Frenchese restaurant. Expensive but you can get some better meat than most places. You can have your salad thing.

After that you can have your main course.

You can tell it is a French style place. Big plate with a little piece of Kobe Beef and a few beans and a tater tot. While the meat was good I just don’t get the whole make it look like there is nothing there deal. Although there pretty much was nothing there. Luckily there was desert.

Of course it also had to have the artsy fartsy thing going on. When you looked to my right and looked out the window this is what you saw.

The bridge in the distance is the Zhuhai Macau end of the Hong Kong Macau Zhuhai bridge, a 50 km (31 mile) bridge and tunnel from Hong Kong to Macau/Zhuhai. As I’m posting this today we are waiting for a big typhoon to hit right here tonight. That would not be a good time to be on the big bridge. The tall area with the cranes is one of the areas raised up to allow ships through and in technical terms is pretty tall.

As you can see the whole idea of this bridge (and the eastern section that is a 7 mile tunnel from 2 man made islands to allow for the shipping lane for the really big ships) is just short of nuts. I think what it will end up doing is creating a new truck route for containers from the northern Pearl River area to Hong Kong that wont have to go through Shenzhen. Add to the nuttiness of  it some where half way across lanes shift as Hong Kong is RH drive (like England) and China is LH drive like everyone else in the world.
Anyway it was a fine meal.