We have been lucky to have borrowed Wolfgangs company car a nice Audi Q7 and so we wanted to visit our old home which was in the New Territories and was called Shek Kong. After leaving Sai Kung we were already impressed with the amount of extra roads and fly overs that now appeared at every corner and we found our way through Shatin and on to a place called Hong Lok Yuen where we lived from 1987 until 1990. The security here was very strong and so it was not possible to visit the estate but it has certainly doubled or tripled in size compared when we lived their.
So we left their and drove to Shek Kong where there were only a few houses and mostly market gardens but now there were houses everywhere and the gardens had gone apart from the small areas where the trees were being readied for Chinese New Year which is due at the end of January.
We arrived in Shek Kong and found that the little restaurant we used to use is still there and expanded and under new owners and so we had a brief coffee and agreed we could leave the car there whilst we looked for our old Spanish house.
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| Golden Castle Restaurant |
Initially we could not find it as there appeared to be newish houses in our ex garden but we found a side path which lead down alongside the old house and could stare up at and it is in a terrible condition. The dogs were barking at the next house and the owner came out and we started chatting about what we were doing there and then we found out that this guy had been there when we were living there but was then 7 years old but he now in his thirties.|Its a small world.
We then had a light lunch and then came back the long way over the highest mountain in Hong Kong on route TWSK and then got a little lost due to the huge amount of extra tunnels and highways and that through us for a while until we found out where we needed to go.
We arrived back in Sai Kung around 4pm and got ready to leave at afround 6.30 pm, as we were meeting some old friends at a very smart restaurant with three Michelin Stars. The 13 or so dishes we quite small but very clever with a new twist on old Chinese menus.
We stayed chatting for a long while and eventually got home around 0130 having perhaps consumed perhaps a bit to much wine but it was a great evening.
