Discovery Bay and Soho

The beach at Discover Bay
Looking down from one of the escalators at Soho
Nice view of this building that kept changing colors

Anna at the Discovery Bay plaza- out of order obviously
The outdoor moving walkways up to the mid-levels 

Yesterday Sarah and Anna and I took the Ferry to Discovery Bay on Lantau Island (there are no motor vehicles allowed there so the Ferry is really the only option, must be a pain for residents). They had a wonderful beach right next to their town square, definitely worth a return visit if anyone is interested. I am always interested in the beach, just to put that out there if anyone is looking for a beach buddy :) 

After Discovery Bay (and before showering) we returned to Central and walked to Soho for dinner. It's a pretty fantastic neighborhood with TONS of restaurants and quite a few cool-looking galleries. The downside is that everything is on a slant. You can take the escalators up but you have to walk over to individual streets and unless you know the area extremely well (or someone gives you amazing directions and you somehow manage to follow them) you are in for quite a bit of climbing. 

We ate dinner at an excellent Italian restaurant called Al Dente. It was a little on the expensive side (tip: don't order the bottled water- drink tap or bring your own) but the food was delicious and very authentic, or at least authentically western with no unexpected Chinese flavors. We split 2 main courses + 1 appetizer among the three of us and it turned out to be plenty of food. After dinner we rode up some of the escalators to the Mosque so that Sarah could do her prayer, luckily Anna had good eyes because we almost missed it and Sarah had to run down the up-escalator to get back! The mosque was really old and beautiful and we heard the Iman (I think that's who it was) give the call to prayer, I love learning about people's different cultures and religions so it was cool to experience it (almost) first-hand. 

After the Mosque came the grand finale of our night, the reason we had come to Soho in the first place, the highlight of my guidebook.... Chocolate!! After several failed attempts the faithful WOM guidebook led us to La Terrasse, a french restaurant noted for their "warm chocolate cake" which in American (or at least my American) translates to: Molten Lava Cake, possibly the most wonderful dessert known to mankind. All I have to say is that it was amazing. The other thing I have to say is that the people at the table next to us were eating raw hamburgers, we couldn't stop staring. Apparently it's quite gourmet.