into hong kong

we got on our train the next morning and foo got some attitude with this guy who ended up sitting directly across from us. and he talked to foo A LOT. for hours. so funny. and poor foo was hurting pretty badly from the night before. normally she just sleeps for train rides but she had to ride backwards and listen to some crazy man for like 5 hours.
i just sat around. we each got our own 3 person bench for the night, so we actually got some sleep! we made it to hong kong the next afternoon! we got there and took the most expensive subway ride of my life. we got to kowloon and walked around for a bit looking for accommodation. we were probably both being jerks to each other, as we usually are when looking for accommodation. and we found a place called star guest house. it was 260 hong kong dollars per night. that's like 33 US dollars. really expensive compared to china. and it had a shared bathroom. but it seemed fine. we ate some expensive mediocre dinner that night. we went to hong kong island to try to do some touristing. we were both pretty devastated to find that the longest escalator in the world was, like the great wall of china, not continuous. it was a bunch of smaller escalators in a line. it was disappointing.
that morning we went to dim sum at a place that is supposed to be pretty famous/popular. it was really crowded, so we thought it would be good. we had to stand around stalking people for seats and finally got some. and we picked out some dishes, none of which was all that good. my favorite dish was cake. haha.
so we left there a bit disappointed.
hong kong has double-decker trolleys on hk island, which is pretty cool, and also cheap. it is 2 hk dollars for a ride. that was fun.
we tried dim sum again the next day at a vegetarian restaurant called lok cha tea house. it was pretty terrible. we had read good reviews about it though. it was expensive and had dishes like curry. and they made us buy tea. and it was a big place with lots of empty seats but when two other diners entered, they seated them at our same table. so that was terrible and awkward. burned twice by the dim sum capital of the world.
really i didn't enjoy hong kong as much as i was expecting. it was really expensive and we just kept eating mediocre food. maybe the food was good but i was just expecting too much from hong kong. but it seemed fairly unimpressive. we stayed for three nights and finally on the morning we were leaving we had a wonderful breakfast which totally redeemed hong kong for me. we had you tiao and soymilk and this other dish that uses the you tiao dough, but wraps like a giant rice noodle around it. it also has delicious sauce. it's called za leong. that's how foo spells it anyway. she had dumplings. sooo good. and way cheaper than our other less stellar meals in hk. so we left on the expensive subway and were not sad to leave. but i am glad that i was able to visit the city. i would go back but i think it would be more fun if i knew someone who lived there. we headed from there to guangzhou...