Today just us girls went to see the 10,000 Buddhas Monastery in Sha Tin. On the metro there, we were all skeptical of how many Buddha’s were really there. Surely not 10,000 we thought. We walked through Pai Tau Tsuen and then up, up, up the 400 something steps leading to the grounds. The monastery has five temples, two pavilions, and a nine-storey pagoda. At first there were gold Buddha’s lining the walk up. Every one was different, but they all had bright red lips. The majorities were skinny, and did not look that much like what I usually picture Buddha’s looking like. After the long hot hike up we finally get to the main part. There are Buddha’s on elephants and tigers, colorful Buddha’s, Buddha’s everywhere! We then went into the temple, and to our amazement the walls had tiny little Buddha’s covering them with little lights on each. Every column even had Buddha’s on them it seemed like there were more than 10,000 just in there. We then left in search of more Buddha’s.
Walking up another hill there were more Buddha’s lining it. About three fourths of the way up there stared to be female Buddha’s. At the next level place you could see huge buildings in the background and peaceful looking female Buddha’s right in front of you. There was also a huge, old house that was very pretty. We kept walking and found more Buddha’s on the hillside. Each one was with a different animal. There was another very colorful temple with a couple big Buddha’s in it. We walked back down to the main temple, got some sodas, and then decided to descend going a different route. This was had even more gold Buddha’s.
We went to central Hong Kong to go to the ladies market after that. It is comprised of three streets: Fa Yuen Street, Tung Choi Street, and Sa Yeung Choi Street. I am going to get home never want to buy anything! Everything is so cheap here! You can get designer jeans for about thirty dollars U.S. And soso much more! They really have everything at these markets, and most of it is really cute. I am going to need to buy another suitcase, good thing they are cheap too. By now I realized that you can in fact haggle prices down. I had no idea before and would by things for the first price they said. Now I can usually get things to about half of the original price.
After doing some shopping there we met up with Frank for dinner. We went to Japanese cuisine, because the restaurant they originally wanted to go to had closed. It was really good! The only thing I didn’t like that I tried was a soft shell crab hand roll. I though it would be really good, but when I took a bite it was gross, and the texture was very gritty. When I told Carrie and Frank this they said it was probably the brain, but then changed their minds. They told me the brain is usually mushy so it was probably the organs. YUCK. I am not sure if they were joking or not but still it really freaked me out.
After dinner we got ice cream to eat during the light show. I tried durian ice cream just to see what it would taste like. Frank always jokes saying that the guy who first ate the fruit must have been the hungriest man in the world. It is covered in spikes, and once you get past that the smell hits you. It really smells disgusting and then you have to get through the icky gooey part to the fruit. It smells soo bad! Anyways I didn’t like it because I could taste the smell. Instead of going to The Peak to watch the light show we watched it from the top level of the parking garage. It was a great view, even though the light show isn’t all the great. The cool thing about it is that it is so unique. What other city would collaborate with all the big buildings to put on a light show every night at eight o’clock for 20 minutes? They have a cheesy introduction to it and music. The girls loved it though!
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