After several hours of shopping we went to the Peninsula for Afternoon Tea. This is a must when in Hong Kong. The Peninsula is now the oldest hotel in Hong Kong and quite elegant. It is affectionately known as the "Grande Dame of the Far East". We had to wait in line for 40 minutes to be seated for our tea! Anyway, it was a proper British tea with sandwiches, scones and pastries. When we had finished our tea, it was time to walk to the waterfront and the fireworks. We first stopped by Starbucks for a latte as we hadn't had any decent coffee all day! Then we made tracks with thousands and thousands of Chinese (and some foreigners) - like a herd of cattle. There were police everywhere controlling and directing the crowds. Amazingly we didn't see any drunks or misbehaving people. It was all very orderly, even in the subway they had crowd control police and things worked remarkably well. We are very impressed with the subway system here. It is efficient and easy to use even for us foreigners as well as being very clean. No food or drink allowed and people actually adhere to that.
The fireworks show started on time and it was great. It lasted for about 20 minutes non stop and was worth the trek!
love the cream tea, one of my favourite things. Did you know the Chinese don't drink very much at all, as they have very low tolerance for alcohol, so a drunk chinese person is quite rare, but they like a beer with karaoke!!
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