We started our 2nd day on the Kowloon side and stopped off at a McDonald's for breakfast (mainly because we knew they had coffee & actual breakfast food). Fortunately, it was a little different than McD's in Japan & the US so we still qualified it as a Hong Kong experience. ;-)
Then we made first use of our 7-day unlimited Museum Pass (for just HK$30=US$4 each) & visited the Museum of History. We watched an informative little film about HK's history before joining a wonderful guided tour, courtesy of the HK Tourism Board. We learned all about the history. Our guide was extremely knowledgeable & even handled our many questions very well. We felt compelled (since our pass included it & we were right there) to then visit the adjacent HK Science Museum. We figured out that it wasn't exactly unique info to HK, so we probably wasted time there (a nice lunch would probably have been better).
Next we made our way back over to the Central MTR station on Hong Kong Island, where we utilized the world's longest outdoor escalator system, the Central-Mid-Levels escalator, to make our way to the Dr Sun Yat-Sen Museum. There we took a guided tour (thanks again, HKTB!), learning all about the medical doctor's training in Hong Kong & subsequent efforts to abolish the long Chinese imperial rule. That tour was followed immediately by another, following the historical trail in the area, visiting several places that Sun frequented in his HK days.
Having only a few minutes left before it closed, we next inspected the nearby, under-repair Man Mo Temple. It was kind of cool to see how they used bamboo for scaffolding in the repairs instead of less eye-pleasing materials.
We than again crossed the harbor (via MTR) to find the Lei Yue Mun Seafood Bazaar, where an impressively large numbers of live seafood vendors & restaurants awaited the many hungry customers. Unfortunately, we encountered a few too-pushy vendors & the many too-foreign customs (of knowing how to select & then purchase, maybe negotiating for, we're not sure, the live seafood for immediate preparation, possibly at our direction) so we were convinced to snap some photos but then go elsewhere to find more familiar cuisine. So we finished our day with a yummy meal at a chain restaurant, Tai Hing Roast, where we still had very unique food experience, the way we like it.
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