Dragon Stream Village - according to our magazine guidebook - it is one of the oldest village in Hong Kong. (Yup, such thing interests us). With a very tight schedule, we decided to visit it as one of our new experiences in HK - sacrificing known places that we intended to visit. It was not a long way to reach the village (about 20 mins from TST to 荃湾, then 小巴 to village).
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| 川龙村 |
We got a bit confused trying to find the bus stop and bus, and walked to a wet market area asking around. One auntie told us the "locations" of taking the small bus and gosh, it was long long queue with police maintaining lane discipline. We were looking for bus 80 and it was luckily not so long queue - apparently, it was tomb sweeping holidays and many of these buses go to "mountains" - 行山。Surprisingly, the street to take the bus was called 川龙 street. Looked like the 元朗。The journey up was okay, and we sat right in front behind the driver - he was playing some Canto Oldies - dunno if my dear was listening though. About another 20 mins ride, we reached at 川龙村。
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| 饮茶 |
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| 彩龙茶楼 |
The first thing that we saw was this teahouse 彩龙茶楼 - it supposes to be very good and famous. Really look like those TVB shows? We went to explore how to order our tea and food - my dear dear was the advanced party and she went looking around. We managed to find a round table - and I waited for a while for her to come back with "report". She told me tea has to DIY - hmm - I would go try as I dun wan to sit there waiting for my dear to serve me - not my style. She brought back some glutinous rice wrapped in lotus leaves and dim sum. Okay, my turn. Acting like a local.
The kitchen and ordering area was at basement. It was really very noisy and buzz with people - I "monkey see monkey do" - went to wash the teapot with steaming water. - I washed a few round to kill germs. There were a row of tea leaves. And I use the scoop to put some tea leaves in (I think I choose 普洱) and pour in the hot steaming water. I then poured out the first pour and then fill the pot with hot water and proceeding up to level 1 where we were seated. I then made a few trips to get chopsticks, cups and dim sum - thinking what to take at times. Quite nice. Quite an experience - a Hong Kong local experience. One family (the mama, daughter and likely future son-in-law) sat with us 搭台。 My dear said the mama asked how come we knew the place. I guessed we were likely the only tourists there that day. Hee Hee. While we were about 75% full, my dear gave me the "go ahead" to go get some dim sum I liked - okay, I went to choose char skew bun and chee cheong fun (kosong one) with peanut and sweet sauce. My dear dear gave big rolling eyes and yes, we could not finish. Too full with all the "white stuff" of the same types - she said - should mix with variety - may be all were of flour? We didn't try the 豆腐花 － it seemed to be very famous too cos of the clear mountain spring water. Gotta try next round.
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| 我们的点心茶水 － Round 1 |
After the breakfast Dim Sum, we went around taking photos of the teahouse and people in action. As we were already in the village, I got a feeling that we would be doing some walkabout. My dear dear told me the vegetables that were placed on the plates were 西洋菜 － hmm, another famous thing of this village. Should have tried it too though I dun like the vegetable.
