El Zorro: Tung Chung Battery & Market (東涌炮台及懷舊街市)

The clouds are white, the sky blue.

I heard there's are two historic sites in Tung Chung

I walked past some flowers along the seafront on my way there

and was welcomed by some small red crackers

and some creepers

This tree seems to say, "Autumn is come"

But others seem oblivious

This pair of young lovers definitely want not to waste time.

I think I know why.

it's not often you get such lights

The sea was silver.

But this leaf knows that its time is come

But there are always late comers

My first destination>

An ancient shell lime kiln producing lime ashes to be used for coating house walls at affordable prices for the locals

This is what remains of the famous battery at Fu Tei Wan, built by the Viceroy of Guangdong and Guangxi for fighting the British and other pirates in 1817.

It guards the entrance to Tung Chung

They may well have been there for more than a hundred years

Tiny flowers growing from the crevices of the stones forming the base of the Battery

The sea is calm: one sees nothing except cable cars.

A fern at the mouth of every drain

solar power works lamps

Still a few fishermen at the bay

a listless fisher at the end of the pier there

a break in the clouds

lighting up the leaves in one of the makeshift gardens of the locals

without scant regard for the new and the old

whether they are creepers

are grown in pots

nets are too good to be wasted

some cactus flowers

and a cluster of glorybowers

and some huge beaumontia grandiflora (inverted bells) or Easter Lily vine flower or Trumpet flower

a local boy cleaning his boat

getting on to another boat

starting the engine

moving away

to the other boats moored there

reflections of the buildings nearby

waves work their magic

It's late afternoon

that doesn't stop the sun's luminosity at all

But it does create shadows

Time to for stocking up food for the week

or an afternoon snack

A rickshaw outside the old-timer's market

old prices: make one really nostalgic!

No cheating of children or old folks

Efforts are made to replicate the feel of the market in the 1950s or early 1960s

One of my favourite snacks on Sunday mornings: white sugar rice cake

salt fried peanuts

Malaysian pomegrantes

a rice pudding with red beans sweetened in brown sugar, popularly known as "bowl pudding", a snack which has nearly completely disappeared. I used to buy them from an old Hakka lady making her round of our street when I was 5 or 6.