Victoria Harbour and Seafood.

Something you won 't find anywhere else in the world, is the view you get of Victoria Harbour in Hong Kong. It is a natural landform harbour which is situated between Hong Kong Island and Kowloon. There are several other cities which have begun to mimic the soaring skyline of Hong Kong in China, but the accolades always go out to the first, and that would be Hong Kong.

It is the city with the most amount of skycrapers in the world, and let me tell you this, there are no photos which can do it justice. You can only go there for yourself and see the scale of what is going on to appreciate it. Part of the reason why so many skyscrapers were built was that the land in this area is so sparse. Building up was the only option. In the future as human population continues to soar, this might just be the beginning of what's to come.

In recent years, the harbour has tried to expand the land with some land reclamation projects. This has met some stiff resistance from environmental protectionists who claim that this would be damaging the water quality as well as destroying a lot of natural habitats.

Even with this controversy, Victoria harbour continues to be a trading port for thousands of vessels each year.

This is the Hong Kong Clock Tower, a landmark located on the south shore of Tsim Sha Tsui Kowloon. It is the only remaining structure from the original Kowloon Station.

Built by the sea, Hong Kong has a reputation for serving incredibly good seafood. A walk through this gate and we're ready to eat some serious seafood.

Seafood is all about freshness. This means all of the seafood is usually kept alive before being cooked to keep the taste as fresh as possible. Many people have objections to the way the seafood is dispatched infront of you. I think it is a little bit savage, and sometimes even a bit cruel, but as a non-vegetarian meat eater, I can only hope that the animals are slaughtered or dispatched as quickly as possible with as little pain as possible.

I read some where that seafood actually has a different pain response to mammals, perhaps that's in their favour. In any case, I am salivating before they even come to the table.

And like magic, what you saw above, is now what you see below, haha! This is what they look like when they're cooked. There is a distinct look and feel to the way Hong Kong cuisine is prepared. It really does have this yellowish shade, did you notice that?

The shell fish were the star of the show by far. I've had the grouper before elsewhere and it for the most part, tasted the same. But the shell fish! Oh, my gosh. They are simply the best. One thing you have to do if you visit Hong Kong, eat shell fish!