Day Nine - Saturday 20 December 2014

Breakfast this morning was on the 54th floor of the hotel. What a view!
The airport is on a man-made island connected by a bridge to the mainland. An engineering marvel.

We caught a shuttle bus out to the airport and boarded our flight on time.
What a fabulous country Japan is. Millions of people but everything organised and efficient and the people so polite and helpful.
We had a wonderful time.

We arrived in Hong Kong in the middle of the afternoon - and already it is suffering in comparison to Japan. Busy, people everywhere, noisy and a bit run-down and grubby.
We're staying in Kowloon - and perhaps this is the less posh part. 
The hotel - the Royal Plaza Hotel - is above a train station and is part of a major shopping centre - so we went downstairs to have a look.
It is a rather exclusive shopping area but when we ventured out into the street, it seems like quite a slummy area. It also felt like rush hour, so we decided to eat in the shopping centre.
We found a restaurant called Peking Garden Restaurant - specialising in Peking Duck.
Of course, we ordered the duck and they brought out at least 12 ducks and carved them on a special trolley as part of the entertainment for all the diners.
We got a whole duck - a soup made of the bones (presumably a previously cooked duck), a mixture of the breast meat with vegetables in lettuce - and then the Peking Duck itself - 30 slices of duck with crispy skin - with the pancakes and cucumber and special sauce.

And this was after some fabulous dim sum.
We groaned as we staggered out of there!