Took off on my own for a half day of touristing on Lantau — monastery, Buddha, fishing village.
It was a bit cloudy and I caught a couple of showers, but the temperature was perfect and so was the light for photographs. Reminded me strongly of the hills near Mumbai in the monsoon — lush, verdant, misty, romantic
My stomach has been angry at the amount of food I’ve been stuffing in, so I took it easy today and snacked lightly from the vegetarian restaurant at the monastery. Only a few bites — took the rest home for later (or for others to snack on).
The ladies at the counter were very nice (I was the only non-chinese looking person who had wandered to the counter) as was an older lady behind me who took it upon herself to double check that I knew what I was asking for, and also that I was given exactly that 
I sampled turnip cake (why aren’t they available vegetarian at regular dim sum?), a taro dumpling (ditto… the dim sum ones have pork), and a spring roll because I couldn’t resist. I also packed a portion of the “vegetable fungus noodles” in case I got hungry later (I did not).
There was also a whole display of sweet items that others partook of heavily, and a range of mock meat items.
There was also a restaurant with set menus.
