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Hong Kong Travel Record December 22, 2000: Hello Lillian!
The third day in the morning. What shall we take in breakfast? We walked out and got in a clean restaurant crowded with young people. Yesterday I saw some people were enjoying milk tea in the shop. I want to try it this morning	The restaurant first served me with a large cup of milk tea instead of usual Chinese tea. I was delighted. I took a bowl of Chinese noodle. The taste was a little bit hot for me.
After breakfast, we looked around food markets nearby. Meat shop (right) was so strong and dynamic for Japanese eyes, but after a while, I was got accustomed to it. Fish shops sell every kind of fish to feed hungry Hong Kongnians stomach. All foods are transported from Mainland China.
	When I got back to the hotel I found Miss Lillian in the lobby. We welcomed this New Year at my house with her. Lillian looks exactly the same as she was. All of us were delighted to see again each other.
Lillian, our "virtual" daughter, kindly prepared a pleasant plan foe us. Her first schedule was to enjoy breakfast in a restaurant across the street.	She ordered Yamcha dishes. Our stomachs still have some rooms. Lillian said the restaurant provides very good dishes.
Lillian grew up in around this area. Nearby markets are her home grounds.	Lillian told me those are the chicken nails we took just before.
I am happy to get on a two-storied tramcar at last. We sat the front seat for nice view.	We crossed with another tram on the opposite side. The clearance of a billboard is designed not to disturb the free passing of two-storied tram or bus.
	In Causeway Bay district is a Japanese department store SOGO, recently its headquarters in Japan went bankruptcy, still alive here. But Hong Kong Branch was already capitalized by local money, the tour guide explained.
We got off the two-storied tram at Central and walked around the crowded center district. One step beside the main street leads us to pleasant shopping stalls on the both sides of the slope.
	Next challenge is to get on a subway. Hong Kong is really convenient allowing many kinds of transportation systems. Lillian elegantly uses a common pass card that makes her go through almost all gates. It is really reasonable way, I felt.
We came up to a famous temple of Wong Tai Sin. The temple is now surrounded with tall apartment buildings but still releasing a mysterious Oriental atmosphere. Blue and yellow roof tiles make a something relaxed space in the concrete jungle. Many believers visit the temple.
	Man-made pond and surrounding red and green buildings offer a rest space for the local residents.
The temple seems to be worshipped since old days. There are a lot of souvenir shops on both sides of the narrow pass. On a pass, I found a row of fortuneteller shops.
We returned to Kowloon Square hoping to take a look of famous night illumination, one of the highlights of this time travel.
Clock Tower of Old Kowloon Station stands 45m high at the old terminal of Kowloon-Guangzhou Line. The sunset dyes the tower. The sun sets in Victoria Peak (upper right.) Hotel Peninsula boasts of its beautiful Christmas decoration on the front pond. The building in the back is Art Centre. Lillian runs a private Japanese learning class in the Centre.
We took dinner at a Beijing cuisine restaurant. The taste was great in the luxurious restaurant.	Lillian bought a Christmas present, a warm jacket, for me ! I was so moved as if I were with my real daughter this evening !
Tsim Sha Tsui promenade is the best point to enjoy the beauty of Hong Kong Island across the channel. Skyscrapers are beautifully illuminated with Christmas colors of red, green, yellow, and blue. This is the very place Lillian recommended us to visit Hong Kong in Christmas season.
	We then got of a ferryboat to Hong Kong Island. The Convention Centre is beautifully illuminated with white beam. The Centre was constructed in order to celebrate The Return Ceremony in 1997.7.1. The ferry soon arrived at a pier close to the Centre. Lillian kindly sent us to the hotel by a taxi. Lillian promised to see us tomorrow morning as well. Thank you Lillian, my dear daughter!