Yesterday, I featured the West Kowloon Cultural District as the future of Hong Kong. Here is a video with details. Breakfast was at the Ritz-Carlton Hong Kong, of a bowl of noodles, with orange juice and cappuccino. Had a nap. Went to dinner in our Club Lounge. From twilight to night. Note that there is air pollution in Hong Kong . Quite serious, as caused by industry and vehicles. There are also 7.6 million people here on space much smaller than the island of Oahu, Hawaii. Never seemed to go away during the day. That spherical gold structure is the Golden Egg, or Charles K. Kao Auditorium, locatd in the Hong Kong Science Park. First course, two soups, plus seared tuna soba. Springbank single malt scotch. Costs around $250/bottle in the USA. Main dish was Vietnamese Hang Nha Noodles, and salad, with a Cabernet Sauvignon. Desserts. That was about it for last night, for we will be picked up at 10AM to be taken to the airport tomo...
Day 2 in Hong Kong started with an excellent buffet breakfast. For lunch in the Club Lounge, the feature was, of all the things. Spaghetti Bolognese. Not the standard SB, but good enough. Decided then to look around the environs of the Ritz-Carlton Hong Kong hotel, which is an anchor tenant with the newish Kowloon Station in West Kowloon, linked to a sprawling and grandiose shopping mall. Hard to find total costs, but perhaps $10 billion has been spent, and another $10 billion will probably be needed to complete the development. The International Commerce Center, which was built in 2010 with the Ritz-Carlton Hotel at the top, paved the way for this all. There is the old Hong Kong around the Peninsula and Sheraton hotels, but the West Kowloon Cultural District, with the tallest building and Kowloon Station, which opened in 2018, is already the Hong Kong of the future. A stroll around the outside. As we were about to leave, we noticed a free tram that took yo...