{"id":411,"date":"2010-10-03T01:52:48","date_gmt":"2010-10-03T01:52:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/globaladventurestravel.com\/?p=411"},"modified":"2013-10-17T01:54:58","modified_gmt":"2013-10-17T01:54:58","slug":"october-3-2010-hong-kong-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globaladventurestravel.com\/?p=411","title":{"rendered":"October 3, 2010    Hong Kong, China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We explored Kowloon today. Although Kowloon feels more authentic, it definitely has more street people and hawkers. Let&#8217;s just say I&#8217;ve had lots of offers for hand bags and watches.<\/p>\n<p>I read that everyone should experience\u00a0Chungking Mansions once. We found foul smelling food stalls, lots of knock-off electronics, and shady men standing around. Yuen Po Street Bird Market was a lot of fun &#8211; mostly old men bring their birds in elaborate cages. The Flower Market had super cheap gorgeous flowers. We ate lunch at the nicest Pizza Hut I&#8217;ve ever been to. We had to wait for a table along with people in suits and ties. The menu had escargot and creme brulee, but no breadsticks.<\/p>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t feel particularly out of place in Hong Kong. There were many Westerners and lots of restaurants and shops catering to foreigners, particularly on Hong Kong island.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Hong Kong7\" alt=\"Flower Market in Kowloon\" src=\"https:\/\/globaladventurestravel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/Hong-Kong7.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"750\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Flower Market in Kowloon<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Hong Kong8\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/globaladventurestravel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/Hong-Kong8.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"750\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Yuen Po Street Bird Market<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 512px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Hong Kong9\" alt=\"Streets of Kowloon\" src=\"https:\/\/globaladventurestravel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/Hong-Kong9.jpg\" width=\"502\" height=\"749\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Streets of Kowloon<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We explored Kowloon today. Although Kowloon feels more authentic, it definitely has more street people and hawkers. Let&#8217;s just say I&#8217;ve had lots of offers for hand bags and watches. I read that everyone should experience\u00a0Chungking Mansions once. We found foul smelling food stalls, lots of knock-off electronics, and shady men standing around. Yuen Po &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/globaladventurestravel.com\/?p=411\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&raquo;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bos_mb_destination":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hong-kong"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaladventurestravel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaladventurestravel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaladventurestravel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaladventurestravel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaladventurestravel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=411"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/globaladventurestravel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":412,"href":"https:\/\/globaladventurestravel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411\/revisions\/412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaladventurestravel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaladventurestravel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaladventurestravel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}