Walking through YSW yesterday, Sunday late afternoon, it's surprising how many restaurants are totally empty when the tourists are leaving our island just before sunset.
And the changes in the local dining & drinking scene happening almost weekly these days:
Tak Fook Chin. bakery moving a few houses down on Back Street, to the much larger space of the former Bubbles Laundry.
It's a traditional Chinese bakery only now. No more breakfast and lunches in there, even though it was full almost every weekday with locals and tourists lining up outsode on weekends.
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File comment: Chin. bakery Tak Fook moved into former Bubbles Laundry, no more restaurant!
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Last day of Hungarian Kurtoskalacs, err, Lamma Chimneys yesterday. I've enjoyed the very last cinnamon and cheese half-stacks. Roland & Yan will be back, they promised, maybe in Fa Fa House again as they really enjoyed their guest stay with Hilda and co.
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File comment: Lamma Chimney's Roland's last day in Fa Fa House, Sun, Dec 21, 2014
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The shop before Nick the Bookman's usual stall moved across the street, just besides
Something About Cats.
The recently opened
Corner 84 Western bakery is going strong and has a great assortment.
I haven't set foot in
Just Green - just across the street - since Corner 84 opened. I can get the same few things I could afford in Just Green before, like bread, drinks and breakfast stuff, in Corner 84 at a better price.
A vinyl record corner opened yesterday (weekends only) in the outside "Classroom" area of the Bookworm Cafe. It's run by a really passionate vinyl fan who's selling some of his own extensive collection.
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I also picked up some $10 DVDs, each one described and recommended by the movie buff vendor, from the Main Street-side floor of the removed, former Policebox and from Nick the Bookman.
LaLa mama's is doing OK, in the former Island Gym in Sha Po Old Village, but open only on weekends. Starting to open on more days in mid-Jan. People still can't find the place, so we were the only customers eating a late lunchin there on a Sunday afternoon. Separate photo story for Lamma-zine in progress, trying to help promoting this beautiful place.
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I love Sunday afternoons in Yung Shue Wan!There's so much activity, so lively, not just tourists, but also the best time to meet acquaintances & friends who are busy working the rest of the week. It can take me hours to get from the ferry pier to the Football Pitch and Tai Yuen Village up on Back Street.
Then it's time to grab my fully-loaded-with-shopping bike, just before sunset, to ride back to Pak Kok Village; where there are no tourists at all but lots of Christmas/birthday parties/BBQs/carol singing in neighbours' gardens and on rooftops these days, lasting well into the night, but usually close down well before noise complaints can officially start at 11pm.
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