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As I have mentioned in my earlier post, we visited the Hong Kong Heritage Cultural Museum last Saturday. You must be wondering why the 4 of us urban city-dwellers girls decided to grace the museum with our presence. As what my friends would say, sometimes it just so happens that you start feeling arty-farty and ache for an "indie" experience.

The museum is situated at the outskirts of Shatin and is relatively near to where we live. It only took a 10 minute bus ride on service 85M from Kowloon Tong Bus Terminal.


Shatin looks and feels like Seng Kang or Punggol new towns with its planted greenery and man-made structures.


It's really quite amazing. There's like a creative pictorial photography exhibition, cantonese opera exhibition, some stuff on 山水画 and ceramics, a walk through Hong Kong's geographical history as well as a toy museum.




This is really interesting. It documents the transformation and growth of cantonese opera from its days in travelling opera troupes who performed on boats and then eventually in opera houses, to how it made its way into mainstream early Hong Kong cinema. They have loads of artifacts, props, costumes and photos from the glory days of cantonese opera. The most interesting thing is virtual make-up where they take a picture of you on the spot and attempts to transform you into an opera character. The results were hilarious. It was also where we had the most fun.



We dressed up! It felt hilarious! Alas, May gave us the scoot.



This is where May enjoyed herself the most.

All in all, it was quite an eye-opener (as well as raised eyebrows from those who know me). Not the kind of activity you expect us to do in 买东西，吃东西 Hong Kong, but you need to break out of the norm once in a while.

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