Hong Kong Day 2

31 October 2010
We decided to wake up a little later to recharge our body to full for the day. After bathing/preparing, we took the MTR and got off at Central Station. Spotted 'ting ting' on the roads!

We then walked towards our first destination of the day, Pottinger Street. It is also known as Stone Slabs Street. Spot the floor!

Most of the stalls/shops are just setting up when we were there. So we took a quick walk along Pottinger Street before heading off to our next destination, BREAKFAST!

Everyone keep recommending the egg tarts at Tai Cheong Bakery. So of course it is a MUST TRY food when I'm in HK.

We ordered 3 egg tart and 'pei dan sou' (1 thousand-year-old egg pastry).

Another food that the newspaper recommended from that bakery is Sha Yung. But it's only available at 11am. We were about an hour early! So we thought we will come back for it later at noon.

After Tai Cheong, we went over for a REAL breakfast, okay, more to brunch. Again, we went to a recommended place called Lan Fong Yuen in Gage Street. We walked our way there as it was only a few streets away.

Look at the newspaper reviews! o.O
And look at the number of people in the shop! @.@
We had to share a table with others. (Btw, sharing table in HK is quite common in coffee shops!)

We had HK style of 'Xi Mut' Milk Tea, one hot and one cold.

Pork chop bun! I LOVE PORK CHOP BUN! I hope Penang have them...!

And Chicken Steak with Prestige Onion Sauce "Lo Ting".

After brunch, we walked around again at that area. Entering into random shops, looking at random stalls and streets.

market

spot the cow's tail!

random chinese-y shop

alot of people were pushing this trolley.
reminds me of Raymond Lam as Ah Hou in Moonlight Resonance!

Then we headed back to Tai Cheong bakery to try the Sha Yung. It tastes like donut with egg paste inside.

We didnt know that our planned day would be completed in such a short time! So we looked at the map we grabbed from the airport and spotted Man Mo Temple and Dr Sun Yat-sen Museum nearby. So we decided to have a look at them.

Along the way....

Saw an extremely old shop selling sauces.

Lovely flowers.

A corner shop offering haircuts!

A wall of roots.

Walked up many many flight of stairs...

And finally reached Man Mo Temple.

Overheard a tourist guide explaining that the tourists that those that touches the brush will acquire wisdom. No harm touching right? ;)

Then we followed the Dr Sun Yat-sen trail.....

...that leads us to the Dr Sun Yat-sen Museum.

But we did not go inside. HAHA!

We headed to our next destination and along the way, went to Dumpling Yuan to recharge some energy!

They have 3 outlets along ONE ROAD if i'm not wrong!

Sour and Hot Soup

Pork and Leek Dumplings

Came out of the shop and spotted another temple. It was quite a shock as I did not notice it's existence at first.

Does this means the temple starts at the 2nd floor?

Pass through Pottinger Street and realised that most of the stalls are selling funky looking costumes. OH YES! 31st Oct is HALLOWEEN!

is that a corpse?

Spotted a big LV store on the way too!

Neh.. did not go inside

We walked and walked and walked.....

and reached the 'modern' part of HK. Saw lots of banks and big company buildings.

and still we walked and walked and walked and walked and walked and walked and walked.....until finally, FINALLY reached our destination, the Peak Tram!

And realised there's a looooooooong queue. T_T

We were queuing for about 15 minutes before we realised that there's a counter which sells a Combo ticket for Peak Tram, Madame Tussauds and Sky Terrace, and we get to save some HK$ too for the combination of three things. So we jumped off the queue and bought the combo tickets. And continued to queued for another 45 minutes before it's our turn for the Peak Tram.

(note: if we did not buy the combo ticket, we have to queue for i think another 1 hour for the normal individual tickets!)

In the tram on the way up

HK from the tram top station

It was about 3.30pm when we reached the top of the hill so we decided to go to Madame Tussauds first.

I never knew my life is such a wonder!

Michelle Yeoh greeted me at the entrance of Madame Tussauds.

Then I had so many roles in a day!

I became the Queen!

I wing chun-ed with Ip Man.

Played basketball with Yao Ming.

Gave a speech in front of Obama and George W. Bush.

Nerd moments with Einstein, the genius!

Checked Shakespeare's poem for spelling mistakes.

Involved in World War I with Hitler.

Performed opera with........

Played golf with Tiger Woods.

Performed with Madonna!

Realised I'm related to The Beatles!

Moonwalk-ed with MJ!

Performed with Anita Mui

and also Miriam Yeung!

HAHAHAH Btw, just in case you dont know, they're all made of wax, measured and molded precisely to look like the real person. :)

After Madame Tussauds, we walked around the trails at the peak.

view of HK again

As it was nearly time for sunset, (5.30pm!), we went up to the Sky Terrace, the highest point at The Peak.

And waited for sunset....which happened at about 5.45pm.

Then we waited for HK to lit up with lights.

Then we queued again for the tram, which took us about half and hour. Then we walked to the nearest MTR station and headed off to our planned destination, Sheung Wan Station for the famous Mak's Noodle.

To our horror, when we reached there, Mak's Noodle was no where to be seen! We asked around and no one seems to know where it is. We walked around the area for a quite some time before giving up and decided to eat something else. But somehow, the limited shops available doesnt seem to offer food that we are satisfied. So we decided to go back to Central and hunt for food there.

In Central, while hunting for food, we realised that there's a lot of people at a distance. We looked around and noticed that it was Lan Kwai Fong and it's Halloween! It's the it place to celebrate Halloween! But we were extremely hungry at that time so headed off for food first!

We settled for the first shop we found in Pottinger Street (Yes, we went back there). Again, dont know what is the shop called... no English wordings! T_T

Rice Noodle with Shun De Fish Ball

Prince Fried Rice

After a satisfied dinner, we decided to join the Halloween crowd after being convinced by a Police that it would only take a while to go to Lan Kwai Fong.

So we followed the crowd traffic all the way to Lan Kwai Fong. We can see Lan Kwai Fong ahead of us, but the Police blocked the roads in order to manage the people. There's at least 100thousand people there I tell you! (not exaggerating). Lan Kwai Fong is just 50 steps ahead of us, but we are forced to follow the one-way-street for humans by walking a big round across the town before reaching Lan Kwai Fong.

While walking towards Lan Kwai Fong with the crowd, we met lots of people dressing up for Halloween. I only took pictures of some of them.

costume from top to bottom. look at the effort just for the make-up! WOAH

spotted Coach store too. :)

chai sen yeh (god of prosperity) celebrates halloween too?

gingerbreadman

how uncomfortable it will be to stay inside a steel for the night?

one big mac please.

topless guy at a cold weather who let anyone to write on his body. I'm IMPRESSED!

can u spot an Asian Johnny Depp?

Some deco-s at Lan Kwai Fong.

It was really crowded so we didnt take many photos. Was too busy trying to make sure none of us got lost in the crowd!

We headed back to the nearest MTR with the help of temporary roadsigns provided by the police. MTR took us back to Tsim Sha Tsui.

The three of us shared a dessert bought from Coco Frans located in the Tsim Sha Tsui station.

Crispy Mango

Then we KO-ed for the day at our guest house, complaining about the pain in our leg only at Day 2!!


***to be continued.....

Hong Kong Day 1

Hello! I'm back from a week-long trip to Hong Kong with my big sis, Yin and bro-in-law, Peter.

So now it's time to blog! :)

30 October 2010
Reached the airport at about 4.30am. We only had 3 hours of sleep that night but at the same time, we are excited for HK!

Depart from Penang International Airport at 6.05am.

flying @ 7.30am

We ate the pre-booked Nasi Lemak Combo(x2) and Chicken Rice Combo along the way.

nasi lemak

chicken rice

We reached Hong Kong International Airport at around 9.30am. After retrieving our checked-in luggage and passing through the immigrations, we went to buy Airport Express to Kowloon and also bought Octopus Card for usage of MTR.

Then off we go to Kowloon using the Airport Express and then the free shuttle bus to Park Hotel. Then we walked about 50 metres from Park Hotel to our place of accomodation, Lee Garden Guest House.

Experienced the smallest lift for human I've ever seen.

lift door looking just like those in tvb movies

the size of the lift, super small!

All the way up to the 8th floor.

@ Lee Garden Guest House

As our room was still not ready, we left our luggage there and went to walk around the neighbourhood. After a while, we were hungry and we went hunting for food in a The One mall.

We wanted something HongKong style since it will be our first meal in HongKong. We rejected western and japanese and some fine dining restaurants and finally decided in this restaurant.

dont know what izzit called. No English name =.=''

We were seated and looked at the menu, only to realised that it is a Taiwanese Restaurant! Not Hongkie... HAHAHA that's the problem of not being able to read chinese. LOL We continued eating there anyway.

Milk tea with pearl sago
fried spring rolls
Pork rice with citrus wafu sauce
Minced pork rice

Super duper love their milk tea! The pork rice with citrus wafu sauce is quite special. The pork is actually really thin sliced 'bak eu'.. Super fattening but yummy!! Worth the extra fats. Minced pork rice was good too! Spring rolls was normal.

After lunch we headed back to Lee Garden to prepare for the long day.

this is our WHOLE room

personal toilet/bathroom

tv, window, aircond

HK really have to pay for space. Guess it explains such a small room is worth HK$550 per night! Overall, the guest house was clean and new. Doesnt give an eerie feeling. The hosts were friendly and helpful. There's housekeeping every day and they even changed the towel every day!

After changing and bathing, we took the MTR to Prince Edward Station. Went to the famous streets of HK such as Temple Street, Ladies Market, Goldfish Market, Flower Market etc...

ladies market. it reminds me of KL's Chee Cheong Kai

goldfish market where the whole street sells gold fish and other fishes

goldfish

frogs

flower market where the whole street sells flowers

flowers

roses waiting to blossom

Saw a three-storey building selling ONLY christmas items!

xmas deco

window display

Random: Look at HK's construction.

They uses bamboo and SQUARE LASHINGS all the way up to the nth floor.
Not steel and screws!


Packed buildings in HK

About tea time, we went hunting for Yuen Kee Dessert located in Temple Street for a taste of their famous desserts.

Yuen Kee

soy bean pudding (YUMMY)

fresh mango pudding (YUMMY)

We ordered these two cold desserts and when we looked around the shop, everyone seems to be eating some hot desserts. We told the waiter we wanted that too. And when the dessert turned up, it was Cha Cha (Malaysian)! HAHA

Cha Cha

The Cha Cha is a mixture of Malaysia's bubur chacha + lek tau + bee ko moay + ang tau + etc... Tastes quite nice too actually. LOL

After some desserts, we continued walking around those streets for a while before taking the MTR back to Tsim Sha Tsui. Then we walked our way to Arena of Stars.

action!

film rolling....

Of course we took pictures of the celebrities' handprints.

Arena of Stars actually located at the shore, overlooking the skyscrapers in HongKong Island.

I really love the night view of HK!

One thing bad about Arena of Stars is there's no one selling REAL food there! We were super hungry at that time, but we tied our stomach and waited for the Symphony of Lights which starts at 8pm.

After the Symphony of Lights, we walked our way back to Tsim Sha Tsui town area and went food hunting. First food we found was Egg Rolls. Lots of people were queuing up to buy so we joined the crowd.

egg rolls

It tastes quite normal and we were slightly disappointed. We should've chose Chocolate or Peanut Butter flavour instead of original.

Then we spotted a stall selling Curry Fish Balls, so we bought a them. Their fishballs are not as springy as those in Malaysia.

Random walking and spotted a shop selling this. I thought they are 'bak chang'...

...and only realised that they are CRABS, all tied-up into squares! And my sis says they are still alive! :(

Then we spotted a shop called hot.com where everything is HK$10. There's quite a number of people queuing up so again, we joined the crowd.

Mango Milk Tea (YUCK! tastes weird)

Fried Siu Mai

Deep Fried Chicken in Taiwanese Style

After hot.com, we were all extremely tired and our legs are superly painful after the whole day of walking. In fact, we cant quite feel our leg anymore. It walks automatically on its own. So we decided to call it a day and headed back to Lee Garden.

@ Cameran Road, TST

***to be continued....