After Big Buddha our tour bus took us to a small fishing town Tai O. The small fishing boat business with people living on their boats has all but disappeared, replaced by large mechanized fishing ships. Hence, no junks except for tour boats and boat people now living in high rise buildings on the shore. This village has switched to importing dry fish from SE Asia and drying some of its own for the restaurant and market businesses. The Chinese use dried sea food for making soup stock. They put it in cloth bags and put the bag in a pot of boiling water for 4 to 9 hours to make the stock. You do not eat the dried food, discarding it after the stock is made. Many of the homes in this village are built on stilts over the water, but these are disappearing as well. We took a high speed ferry back from Lantau to HK Island. The ferry weaved in and out among the many freighters at anchor or moving about the Lamma Channel which leads to the container port. Hong Kong is the third largest container shipping port in the world, exceeded by Singapore and Shanghai.
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