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In the center of Sha Tin located in Southern Hong Kong is a mountain. Here, my eighty-four year-old grandmother, Po Po of my mother's side lives in one of the many villages on this mountain--Ma On San Mountain. I hate typing that because San already means mountain, therefore I'm being redundant. Anyways, yesterday, Cheryl, my Uncle, and myself climbed the mountain, a two hour hike roughly 800 meters up. Hong Kong is located in the subtropics. Bananas, birds, meters tall grasses, waterfalls, wild boars all on the mountain. We climbed down, over to the other side of mountain, passed a mountain side cemetary, with bones eerily in plain eyesight, urns filled with poorly cremated remains. The other side of the mountain is a place called Sai Gong. There is a popular cafe where movies stars and models eat delicious desserts. I myself had a mango tofu fa. It was so good. Food in Hong Kong is worth selling your soul for. Prices are extremely low. Today, we had lunch at this restaurant called Maxine's where my aunt, uncle, sister and I had lunch for about $80HK which comes to about $10 USD.
I bought a Canon Powershot with a 1 Gb disk and disk reader and bag to carry all of this for $181. In St. Louis, this array of things would have set me back at least $500. There is only a week left in our trip, and I'm already missing Hong Kong. It's not the food, or the inexpensive clothes and gadgets that I'll be coming back for, but the family that I've left behind since I was two.
I must wash up now. Dinner is ready.
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