Archives for October 2012

Have you experienced the educational side of Hong Kong? If you haven’t, do follow through these 2 final posts of my 7 part series of Hong Kong 2012, where I will cover 2 must-see places in Hong Kong if you have kids above 4 years of age.

The Hong Kong Science Museum 香港科学馆 is a perfect place to visit if you experience a rainy day during your visit to Hong Kong.

The Science Museum has more than 500 exhibits within their premise, and close to 70% of their exhibits are interactive. One of their most prominent exhibit is the 22 metre high Energy Machine, which is the tallest and biggest exhibit in the Museum. It stands as high as the four storeys of the Museum, and displays energy conversion when the balls are set in motion and produces sounds and visual effects.

The Energy Machine

1st Floor

Occupational Safety and Health Gallery on the 1st Floor

Electricity and Magnetism Gallery

Ground Floor

The Lufengosaurus exhibit at the LIfe Sciences Gallery

Looking at plastic models of baby fetuses

A skeleton of a rabbit

A model of a human heart

Seeing through the eyes of an insect

Fiddling with a 3D motion sensor game

World of Mirrors

There are also the galleries of Light, Sound, Mathematics, Motion and Environmental Conservation on the same level of the Science Museum.

Second Floor

Food Sciences Gallery

A life sized DC-3 airplane which is the first local airliner of Hong Kong.

Driving Stimulator

The galleries of Home Technology, Telecommunications and Prototype zones are on the 2nd Floor of the Science Museum.

Third Floor

The Children’s Gallery and Energy Efficiency Centre is on the top floor of the museum

The exhibits are interesting, well-maintained and sanitized every hour, something that Singapore Science Centre should take a page from, for their much needed over-haul :P. K and I took about 3 hours to complete most of the interactive exhibits within the museum.

To get to Hong Kong Science Museum, take the MTR to Hung Hom station and follow the footbridge for a 15 minute walk to the museum.

Standard ticket for an adult is at HKD$25.00, $12.50 for a student from 4 years of age and free admission for children below 4. Free admission on Wednesdays.

Next post on part 7, the final part of my blog series to Hong Kong 2012; a comprehensive photo coverage of what is there to see at the Hong Kong History Museum.

Here are the other parts of this series of posts :

Part 1 – Hong Kong Disneyland Fun and Food

Part 2 – Flowers and Birds

Part 3 – Sartorial Hong Kong

Part 4 : Lantau Beaches

Part 5 : Hong Kong Fresh Food Market

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The Hong Kong-ers love their food and despite eating out very often with their wide selection of cafes, there are many fresh food markets located in each town. Staying in the vicinity of Tsuen Wan, I visited a fresh food market to see how different it was from the regular wet market in Singapore.

One key difference was, almost all the stalls in the wet market were open and teeming with customers at 4.30pm. And from what I heard from a local, that some of these markets are opened till 2am on certain nights, 7 days a week. The Hong Kong-ers are indeed a very industrious bunch!

Vegetable stalls, rather similar to the ones we see in Singapore

There are live chickens in cages and you can still watch chickens being slaughtered

The best feature of a local fresh food market has to be the live seafood

Coming up soon, theseason of Hairy crabs

A variety of fish available

I was amazed by the variety of pork parts available

It’s no wonder that food tastes so good in Hong Kong, with their variety and affordability of fresh food.

Next on Hong Kong 2012 Part 6 and 7, see an educational side of Hong Kong.

Here are the other parts of this series of posts :

Part 1 – Hong Kong Disneyland Fun and Food

Part 2 – Flowers and Birds

Part 3 – Sartorial Hong Kong

Part 4 : Lantau Beaches

Related posts:

While I was enjoying the sights of the flowers and the birds and spending time in sartorial haven, the little boy made a trip to Lantau island with grand-dad. K claims that the Lantau Island trip is his favorite-est part of our 6 days Hong Kong visit, even better than Disneyland. Disneyland is only at No.3 of the best places that he has visited in Hong Kong.

Part of the attraction of Lantau Island beaches are the Water Buffaloes in Pui O Beach. These Water Buffalo were once a part of village life on Lantau, owned by farmers to plough the coastal plains for wet-land rice cultivation.

These Water Buffalo droppings were considered the most important fertilizer for gardens then. However as many of the Lantau Island farmers ceased farming and moved to mainland Hong Kong, these buffaloes were left to fend for themselves on the fields.

The other feature of Lantau Island are the pristine beaches with clear waters…

…and the mussels that can be found in abundance during low tide.

Mussels and shells picked up at Pui O beach

More ‘treasures’ found at Shui Han Beach

Shui Han Beach Kite-boarders in the background

You can get to Lantau island by MTR, just take to the end of Tung Chung line and then grab a taxi to Southern Lantau.

Coming up in the Part 5 of Hong Kong 2012, a glimpse into a place where locals get their fresh produce.

Here are the other parts of this series of posts :

Part 1 – Hong Kong Disneyland Fun and Food

Part 2 – Flowers and Birds

Part 3 – Sartorial Hong Kong

Related posts: