FRIDAY / SATURDAY - HONG KONG 
MONGKOK

Obligatory photo of the plane.
The flight went just south of the North Pole.
We got to the gate at Hong Kong International Airport at around 6:00 p.m. Getting through immigration was fairly quick and after that I bought a transit card that included two trips on this Airport Express train.
The Dorsett Mongkok has a shuttle that stops at the Kowloon Station where I got off the Airport Express, but it was unclear where it stops at the station so I missed it. I ended up taking the MTR to the Olympic Station, the nearest to the hotel, and making the ten minute walk to the hotel.
The hotel has a small footprint but is 30+ stories high.
In the U.S. we should be thankful for the size of our hotel rooms. I knew this would be pretty small but it was very nice, clean and modern.
The bathroom isn't so much a separate room as much as a glass-walled off corner of the room. The shower had one of those rain showerhead which was nice.
Here is the view from the seventeenth floor. Those 50ish-floor tall towers are all over the place in Hong Kong. I suppose when there is little space for growth you have to build up instead of out. We'll probably see more of these later.
If there is one word I can use to describe Hong Kong it would be humid. The other would be warm. This picture basically shows that. After a night in an air conditioned hotel room the first photo outside in the humidity was through a condensation-covered lens.
There is a small park next to the hotel where old Chinese folks do some exercises. This was about 6:15 in the morning.
Chinese breakfasts are not unlike their other meals, bowls of noodles and meats. That is not to my liking so I usually got something like this at the 7-Eleven on Ivy Street.
The local area between the hotel and the Olympic Station is a little bit of nice newer buildings and these older run-down structures.
I could let you believe that I had to learn the language to navigate my way around town, but actually there was English almost everywhere in addition to Cantonese and Mandarin.

TO VICTORIA HARBOUR