Hong Kong shrimp surprise on the hill

So you might have read that we had missed all the new year festivities in Hong Kong on our stop over. So on the the 1st of january we were both fit as a daisy and a little bit less overwhelmed with the big city.

we went out to discover a bit of hong kong island and wandered around the shopping area (probably looking like really smalltown tourists) and the alleyways with all the little shops that sold real fake phones and such.

But after a bit it started looking all the same and we had the amazing idea to take the tram up to Victoria Peak. Having no idea how the bus system worked we started walking to and through the business district to arrive at the Peak Tram stop only to be greated by a big crowd at the entrance. When I went to get into the queue the attendant (really not friendly) gruffly took my sleeve and started to herd me in the other direction. When questioned he stopped, looked at me and then pointed off to the other direction. There I saw not the 100 people at the entrance but at least another 600 in the queue on the other side of the street.

The wait, it turned out, would be roughly 2.5-3 hours.

Then I made a bold statement: "Ahh, fuck this, lets just walk it, how hard can it be"

What I had not really realised is that this would also take 2 hours and we mastered a elevation of 400 meters winding up that steep steep hill. I was sweating like a pig (or some other really sweaty animal of your choice) by the time we got up there. But the sight was out of this world. All those giant skyscrapers, that layer of smog, that big pile of humans was all beneath us...

Now that building in this last picture was a miniature shopping mall on the top of this peak and there were some fast food restaurants in there and something else. I now realise this is apparently a chain of restaurants but at the time I thought it funny and a better alternative to BurgerKing.

Bubba Gump Shrimp

So off we went to see the Forrest Gump memorial restaurant. I ran around the whole place taking pictures of everything that popped out. I really do have to say that they did make an effort and that the whole concept is really well thought out. Even the food wasn't bad at all and brought in theme. Really nice experience all in all and here are some pictures to share it with you.

so have any of you actually ridden that tram or has someone done the same as me and walked up that hill?
And if you like bubba gump shrimp... let me know as well

when we got home, we watched Forrest Gump that weekend (its still an amazing movie)