Paying our respects at Cape Collinson

Six days of hanging out in Shenzhen and it was time to head back to Hong Kong.  Pokin’s aunt passed away last year and she wanted to pay her respects to her aunt, uncle and grandparents.  All of them were cremated in Chai Wan so that’s where we went.

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First thing we did was prepare paper packages.  You fill paper bags with all the things you want to provide your ancestors in their afterlife and then you burn it so they receive it.

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It can include clothes and money.

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They sure cover their bases with what they print on the money.

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Once the packages were prepared we put it in the furnace to send off.

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And then we wiped down the face plates.

Good bye, goo mah and goo jung, grandma and grandpa.

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Day three Chinese New Year

Today’s not a day to go and visit people.  It’s a day to get your fortune told.

Well we went and visited loads of people.

First stop, Uncle Adolf’s house.  Uncle Adolf moved to Pok Fu Lam which is located on the South Side of HK.  The metro line doesn’t run south, so we got a ride from the Admiralty MTR and drove around to the south side.

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Pok Fu Lam used to be a dairy farm but is now a swanky residential area.  It was a fine day and Uncle Adolf lives in the Penthouse suite so we got a good view of the South China Sea and Lamma Island.  Brunch on a rooftop is not a bad thing at all.

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Next stop, cousin Shirley’s place in Tseung Kwan O on the other corner of Hong Kong.

They live beside a mall with the best name in the world.

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That’s right, PopCorn Mall.  They’ve even got a PopCorn mascot.

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Since it was the Year of the Horse, they had some horses too.

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Cousin Shirley lives in a tall high rise tower.  She’s on the 53rd floor.  That’s almost as high as I fly.

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Eventually we went back down to the ground floor to meet with Auntie Connie, do another group photo, and then it was time to make our way back into Shenzhen, China.

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