Back on Hong Kong Island, the mansion in Mid-Levels was bought and I didn't live for a few days.

Coming to Central, where every inch of land is valuable, it is a big stage for TVB's various workplace dramas, starting from PMQ, I heard that it is one of the eight historical buildings of the government's conservation Central project, which was once the dormitory of the former married police officer on Hollywood Road, and has been transformed into the current cultural and creative park. It has become a daily gathering place for Hong Kong literary and artistic youth, with more than 100 creative entrepreneurs and designers in the shop, and you can feel the strong Hong Kong-style design when you step inside.

Meet an ordinary shoemaker, insist on making a pair of handmade shoes in three weeks, in this era of factoryization, his persistence is moving, a few simple words, his optimism is impressive, and I envy people who can still insist on their dreams and personality in this era, come on!

A five-minute walk away, you can find several popular graffiti walls near Hollywood Road and Graham Street in Central, attracting many tourists to stop and take photos every day, making it a new place for hipsters to check in.

In strong contrast with the graffiti wall in Europe and the United States, the graffiti wall is full of strong humanistic atmosphere and market atmosphere, and the graffiti wall in Europe and the United States may be shocked, while the graffiti wall seen is more moving.

Less than 50 metres from the graffiti wall block is Tai Cheong, a traditional long-established bakery that opened in 1953 and was the last Governor of Hong Kong, Chris Patten's favourite egg tart. Different from traditional egg tarts, Taichang's egg tarts are larger than ordinary egg tarts, without the taste of greasy spices and additives, and even feel a little refreshing.

The bottom of the egg tart is not a common puff pastry but a butter crust that tastes a bit like a cookie, and the surface of the tart core is slightly crusty, and after biting, the mouth is full of thick egg fragrance, and the taste is delicate and tender, smooth enough to be eaten with a straw.

Continue on to Duddell Street, where there is a century-old gas lamp, and today this monument has become a mecca for young people of literature and art. There is a Starbucks next to the gas lamp, and it is also the only Hong Kong-style Starbucks in the world.

Walking into the store, you can see the space jointly created by the local brand Zhuhaoqi, with a strong nostalgic style of the fifties and sixties of the last century, whether it is the window floor tiles or bead curtains are engraved with the taste of time, and will provide traditional food in the ice room, including the three treasures of the ice house, "thick-cut butter pineapple buns, coffee tarts, hazelnut coffee cake rolls, you may wish to come and sit when you are tired of shopping."

The hottest place at the moment is probably the Tai Kwun Historical and Art Gathering Area. After 10 years of renovation, this 170-year-old former Central Police Station has been transformed into a trendy place that combines monuments and art galleries.

It comprises three declared monuments, the former Central Police Station, the former Central Magistracy and Victoria Prison, a total of 16 historic buildings, as well as a new art gallery and a performance hall. At present, the first exhibition to appear is Tai Kwun 100 Noodles, walking in the flyover corridor in Central, and you can see the promotion here in many places.

Continue on until you reach the entrance of the HSBC building, where the two lions on the Hong Kong dollar are waiting for you. It symbolizes rights and justice, and is also one of the three rare treasures of the HSBC building.

And the two lions have their own names, the one with the open mouth is called Steven Stephen, and the other is called Stitt Stedy. When it was invaded, the Japanese army plundered the lions of HSBC to the island country to prepare to melt them into steel, but they were defeated and surrendered before they could do so, and the British government returned the lions and kept them to this day. If you look at the bronze lions now, you can still see the traces of the bullets on their bodies.

The HSBC building behind it is a different structure from all the buildings in Central, with steel columns and trusses prominently exposed in the shape of the building, which turned out to be a building that could be demolished.

It is said that HSBC built this building because it had doubts about the economic development after the handover, so it used a demolible building structure when building this building, but after so many years, everything has been good, and the concerns have made this building have a different appearance.

Take a turn and find a café to eat. I've experienced this feeling for a long time, and the most popular café in the area treats everyone equally. It doesn't matter if you are a financial tycoon with millions of dollars a second, or a small white-collar worker in the cubicle, you have to stand in line and wait for a seat at the meal, and the store does not accept reservations, nor can you get a number.

When queuing, you must not be in a daze, because the number of seats vacated in the store at any time is uncertain, so sometimes you can "cut in line" and eat first. If you're in front of a small group of three or five and you're two people, raise your hand when the waiter calls out the two, and then you'll be able to enjoy the envious gaze all the way through the queue.

Even if you get a place, you can't sit back and relax, because you have to be ready to set up a table, that is, to share a table, at any time. At this time, almost all the guys are the best space designers, and they make the most reasonable arrangements according to the number of people who are tall, short, fat and thin, and the card slot that can usually sit four people can be stuffed into five thin people.

So don't expect to finish this meal comfortably, curling hands and feet is the norm, and it's lucky to have a plate in the corner of the table.

When the waiter puts you in place, the biggest test is to read the menu. Menus change over time, so don't be blind to ordering the wrong meal at the wrong time. The most common breakfast items are sandwiches, bread, eggs, pasta, etc.

Toast is transliterated as toast, and the French toast made by soaking in egg wash and deep-fried in milk is called toast, and the name varies depending on the sauce. Jam toast is said to be more prevalent, condensed milk butter is more creamy, and butter and jam are more oil.

One of the more hearty breakfasts is "sandwich", which is actually a transliteration of sandwich. Because of the abundance of fillings, the name of the sandwich is also very varied.

Egg sandwiches are called "egg treatments", luncheon meat and egg fillings are "meal egg treatments", and replacing luncheon meat with ham is naturally "leg egg treatment". If you want to challenge the advanced ordering method of the tea restaurant, you can use the "hidden option" to crush everything.

If you want to bake the outer bread until it is warm and crispy, you can say "bake the bottom"; "Fly" and "go" both mean "don't", so "fly" means to remove the hard crust of the rusk, while "go oil" means to leave no butter.

Similar to "flying and oiling", another chivalrous code is "flying sand and milk", which is mostly used for coffee, that is, black coffee without sugar and milk, and Hong Kong people also call it "fast coffee". Milk tea can also require unsweetened "go-sweet", but a more advanced way to eat it is to ask for a cup of "tea-go", that is, to replace sugar and evaporated milk with condensed milk, which has a more mellow taste and is not like sugar that will make the throat phlegm. Later, on this basis, "Brown Walk" and "Duck Walk" were derived.

The lemon family also accounts for half of the café's beverage menu. "Lemon Joy" is lemon cola, "lemon tea" is lemon black tea, "lemon seven" is naturally paired with seven joys, and "lemon water" is of course simple lemonade.

Hao Like is translated as "Heli", and Ovaltine is referred to as "Huatian", and you can also refer to the above "tea walk" method to call a cup of "Huatian walk". "Mandarin Duck" is milk tea and coffee, and "Black and White Mandarin Duck" is to use Rick to spell Ovaltine, which is generally enjoyed by children who can't drink coffee.

Eggs are of course also a regular on the breakfast menu. "Sun eggs" and "scrambled eggs" are general terms, but "anti-eggs" are probably rarely heard, in fact, they are poached eggs fried on both sides. If you don't want to eat raw egg yolk, you can ask for "ripe spring". Another type of "dyingry" is actually a transliteration of Western-style egg rolls, in which eggs and flour are spread out into cakes and rolled with cheese and ham, which is the protagonist of the golden light on the table.

In the old days, it was popular to eat "boiling eggs", that is, raw eggs were beaten into a cup of boiling water and stirred with sugar, and if they were stirred with condensed milk, they were called "milk eggs". When the guy places an order in the kitchen, he will shout: A monk has jumped into the sea

But because of the fear of germs from the raw eggs, the number of people who ordered them gradually decreased, and this spectacle was no longer seen.