Xoco and the Central - Mid-Level Escalator

[Randy W]

On another night, we took a short walk on Queens Road Central to the Hong Kong Central - Mid-Level Escalator, which we took up to Mosque Rd. and the XOCO Mexican Cantina and Bar. On Facebook, they're at https://www.facebook.com/xocosoho/

 

A guy selling (and making) wooden watches. A nice arts & crafts idea, but I don't think so.

 

 

 

The view at the entrance to the Escalator looking up along Shelly Rd.

 

The elevated portion there is the Escalator.

 

The escalator is a one-way escalator going UP, except in the morning when it goes DOWN (I guess for people heading to work). It was built in 1994 and is the longest outdoor escalator in the world, at 2,600 feet. It was built in sections, and is very easy to get on or off at different levels.

 

After my wife was told several times that we had come too far - to go back down to where we wanted to go, I asked someone myself and was told that yes, it was just one more level up and on the right. Found it, no problem. Hong Kong seems to be a VERY helpful place as far as strangers offering directions.

 

Looking down from the top

[Randy W]

The (panoramic) view along Mosque St.

 

. . . and the XOCO Mexican Cantina and Bar

 

 

All in all, I would rate it as good, but using what to me seemed to be available, rather than authentic, ingredients, e.g. marinara sauce instead of salsa, and meat not up to what I'm used to from TEXAS Tex-Mex. Still, a cut above Tequila Coyotes in Shenzhen, although the margaritas weren't quite as good.

 

 

On the way back, we came across the LARGEST collection of Westerners that I have yet seen in China. But they weren't any more interested in us than we were in them.

 

 

The map showing how to get there from our hotel.

[Greg.D.]

Until you posted the pic's of the escalator, I had no reason to doubt that the area in the Hong Kong maps was anything but flat!