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A Return to Hang Hau.

02.09.2022 - 03.09.2022

On Friday Peter and I went swimming. Thank you God, the water is starting to cool down to a swimmable temperature. I don't know why, as we have hot weather warnings almost every day. I guess it's been hot and cloudy, rather than sunny and there has been rain. After our swim we ate dinner out in our sports club. I had Malaysian chicken curry on steamed rice and Peter had a four cheeses pizza. We had a nice meal, but were shocked by the bill, as beer had shot up in price horrifically. It's enough to make you become teetotal. It will be the Mid-Autumn Festival on the tenth of September, so the club was decorated with beautiful Chinese lanterns.

Lanterns by daylight when we arrived.

Sunset over our pool.

Peter with his four cheeses pizza.

The lanterns.

Peter with the lanterns.

Both of us with the lanterns.

I usually clean the house on Saturdays and it takes the whole day. I mentioned to Peter that I had seen an article on The Dessert Museum which was visiting Hong Kong till September the fourth, but I wouldn't have time to go. He suggested that I go on Saturday and clean on Sunday, so I did.

All I can say is, thank goodness I was able to combine this escapade with a wander around two parks and a visit to Marks and Spencers, because the Dessert Museum itself, in my opinion, was really not worth the effort it took to get there. Oh well, you live and learn.

To get to the Dessert Museum I travelled by MTR to Hang Hau Station. It's quite a long way from where I live and took about an hour and a half. I started by visiting the parks. I have been to them before, but as I was meeting a friend on my last visit I didn't really do them justice.

I began at the Man Kuk Lane Park which centres around a large fish filled pond. There's an impressive man-made waterfall, too. This time I noticed a little Japanese rock garden that I didn't see last time.

Sign for Man Kuk Lane Park.

Park entrance.

Pond.

Zigzag Bridge.

Waterfall and fish.

Fish and Turtles.

Shelter.

View through shelter window.

Flowers.

Colourful pond with colourful school behind it.

Flowers by the water.

View across the park.

Japanese Zen Rock Garden.

Next I went past the Tseung Kwan O Sports Ground to the Hong Kong Velodrome Park.This park surrounds the Hong Kong Velodrome. Both the park and the velodrome were opened in 2013. This park has a large grassy lawn, a pond which is apparently used for model boats, but had been taken over by a Mid-Autumn Festival display, a skate board/roller skating area, a climbing wall, a cycle track and lots of cycle themed sculptures. There's plenty of shade here and it's spacious and peaceful.

Tseung Kwan O Sports Ground.

Hong Kong Velodrome Sign.

Cycling.

Skateboarding.

Velodrome Park.

The Hong Kong Velodrome.

White rabbits display for Mid Autumn Festival. I assume they are lit up at night.

Mid-Autumn Festival display.

Beautiful Mid Autumn Festival display.

Display celebrating twenty-five years since the handover.

Cycle themed sculpture.

'Going Home' cycling related sculpture.

'Going Home'cycling related sculpture.

Skateboarding area.

Rock climbing wall.

Beautiful flowering tree.

Artwork outside the most colourful school in Hong Kong.

After exploring the parks, I headed to the East Point Shopping Mall for the Dessert Museum Exhibition. This had got a great write-up, so maybe my expectations were too high, or maybe it was just something that didn't really appeal to me.

The display had four main areas. The reviews said five, so either I missed one, or the reviewers hadn't actually been here. There was a giant doughnut that you can go inside to see walls decorated with more doughnuts. This display also had slides for little kids. Next to this, there was a bouncy Hong Kong egg tarts display. Kids could jump from one egg tart to the next. It looked like the kids liked this one. Then there was a sort of afternoon tea with macaroons. People could stand inside a teacup for a photo or sit inside a tea pot filled with bubbles. An old lady had plonked herself down on a macaroon and wasn't moving for anyone. She'll be in a lot of photos, I can tell you. Then there was a banana beach where you could put on a headset and play a game. I didn't try this. Finally, there was a stall selling sweets and cakes.

Personally I'd say if you were in the area for some reason, or lived next to the shopping centre and had young kids, it may be worth a look, but it certainly wasn't worth making an effort to see.

The Dessert Museum comes to Hong Kong.