Eugenia came to the hotel to pick up for a tour on our second day in Hong Kong. I knew her in Frankfurt, Germany while both of us were on our tours in Europe. She said that we were at the Aberdeen area; therefore, she had a plan to take us to visit Stanley, had a lunch at the Causeway Bay area, drinking coffee for the entire afternoon with a life music performance, and finally at a famous roast goose restaurant for our dinner.
We took a train to the Central and transferred to a bus passing through a tunnel and at the high rises of the city and the high wall like campus of the Hong Kong University, her alma mater. As a matter of fact, the alumni Association has listed Dr. Sun Yat-sen as one of them due to his attending of the old Hong Kong College of Medicine, the forerunner of the University. I showed my interest to visit the campus of this famous University. Stanley is a small bay and the British Authority built a pier for their vessels named a Governor-General Blake as its name, I read the words on a stone monument. The old Governor-General building was moved to the front of the pier nicely. Also nearby is the popular Sea Goddess Temple and the famous Guanying Bodhisattva statue is on the hill which is very famous for the scenery on movies in Hong Kong. She did mention that there were a big resistance in Hong Kong during Japanese invasion during the War and Stanley was the last beach head. I tried to show my well informed character, I asked if it was the Gurkha army. She knocked her head and took us to visit the Military Cemetery on another hill where we could see the overall scenery of Hong Kong, the bay, the high rises, and the mountains, etc. We continued to pass the old residential area of small plan houses with small yards for growing vegetable and flowers. We came to the original post office building, still in function, to catch on a bus to a noodle house at Causeway Bay section of downtown, of course everywhere in the city is like a downtown. It is a small Teochew eatery yet crowded with customers. I ordered two bowls, one fish rice noodle and one plan seaweed soup and both ladies ordered beef meet balls noodle for lunch. There were delicious. Amy and I went back again on the third day in the city.
We took a bus again to a coffee and bar restaurant across the Island. I forgot the name yet she told me that was closed to the original place to raise geese for the restaurant to have them roasted. We had listened two sections of performance of Jazz music. Finally, I requested three popular hits and they agreed to play one of them, What's up? It was excellent.
She took us to another roast goose restaurant to wait on long line to get in and I regret very much that I was not alert enough to notice that she was allergy to both the goose and the duck due to her shoulder's pain according to Chinese herb medicine advice to avoid eating them.
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