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HK Day 4
Friday, January 4, 2008

We were supposed to meet KY for lunch at 1130 but guess wat, we woke up at 1030! took MTR to Causeway Bay, another one of the up-towns in HK.

Here's our lunch : snake, Roasted goose, Vege and pork sausage. HK ppl eat real fast. they just eat and go, no chatting after meals! Or izit because they have to rush back to work?!?!

We had our last minute shopping at Mongkok area. Cant imagine i actually bought 7 peices of "I love Hong Kong" T'shirts.

11:15 PM

Hong Kong Day 3
Thursday, January 3, 2008

Breakfast at the tea house just below our Hotel. It quite nice! Porridge and tea "youtiao". like the rest of the tea houses in HK, the breakfast menu is huge, with variety of porridge and noodles to choose from.

Took MTR to to visit the famous temple "Huang Da Xian". Quite alot of ppl. Made our wishes and then proceed to Tsim Sha Tsui to look for the Esprit Warehouse. Cant find it so we shop along Nathan Road at Tsim sha Tsui. Lots of Shopping!!

"Huang Da Xian" temple

There's a new shopping centre beside "Huang Da Xian" MTR station but seems llike high-end goods are sold here so we didn't shop much there.

In the evening we went to Victoria peakhttp://www.thepeak.com.hk/full/en/index.php. Combined tix incl peak viewing gallery, Madame Tussauds and peak tram cost 145HKD.

Wow!! all the stars are here! see them for yourselves! too bad we cant take photos with Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie. We need to pay to let their staff help us to take...cant even get close to them in wax!

If u're fast and dun spend time admiring, one can finish the entire Madame in like 2 hours! Next, proceed to the peak gallery. by the time my stomach starts to call out, but the food here is so ex!

View from the peak:

With empty stomach, we went back to Mongkok, have Macdonalds for take-away. We filled our stomach first before our last night of shopping at Mongkok.

KY asked us out at Langham for Dessert. Lucky Dessert has more authentic decorations than "Xu Liu shan". And their Mango dessert is better too! Althought not in the case of asthetism!

12:29 AM

Hong Kong Day 2
Wednesday, January 2, 2008

Took MTR to Central to this famous Luk Yu Tea House at Stanley
road for Dim Sum http://www.frommers.com/destinations/hongkong/D44638.html. Walking along Queen's Road Central one can find shopping centres like my fav H&M!! there's huge sale up to 60% off selling winter clothes.

Luk Yu Tea House has nice deco and reflects back to the olden days where the staff used to carry the tray of dim sum on their backs. Some reviews mentioned that the the staff here are rude, but we dun find it so.

We took MTR to Disneyland http://www.disney.com.hk/en/index_flash.html. The train is so cute! it's decorated with disneyland stuff. Entrace fee was 295HKD. The disneyland is not as big as the one in LA and the themes are almost the same. No princesses to take photos with but there's Mulan the heroine! And the parade was nice too!

Took MTR to Tsim Sha Tsui to watch the Symphony of Lights http://www.discoverhongkong.com/eng/showtime/lighting/index.jhtml near the habour and bus interchange. it was magnificent. Worth watching, and it lasts only for 15min.

Avenue of stars...

Had our dinner at Hankow road near the MTR station. The food is served hot and the nooodle soup is nice too!!

12:22 AM

Hong Kong Day 1
Tuesday, January 1, 2008

Happy New Year!

Upon touching down at HK airport at 5pm, we took Airport Express to Mongkok. By travelling on MTR http://www.mtr.com.hk/engtxt/homepage/cust_txt_index.html, groups of 2 or more can enjoy promotion rates from airport to Tsing Yi.

From Mongkok,We walked through Sai Yeung Choi Street, ladies street to Soy street where our hotel is-Acesite Hotel.The temperature is cold and the streets were full of ppl.

Walking to temple street only takes about 10 to 20 min.Here we are at the famous claypot rice (xing ji claypot).Filled with ppl as well. quite cheap- abt S$10 per claypot and lots of varieties to choose from- pork, chicken, seafood etc .There are a few other claypot eateries but this is the famous one! Seems like the more popular one is the crab claypot.

The famous oyster pancake is a must try!

Ladies street is the famous nite market but of course not as big as Jatujak mkt in bangkok. sells imitation stuff, bags, keychains, t shirts, clothes etcetc. Closes at around 12am

Langham Place is considered a new shopping mall just outside Mongkok MTR station. We went to the Modern Toilet Cafe but too bad it was already closed for the night. Nevertheless, we took some toilet pictures!!

Went to this famous dessert shop Xu liu Shan. They have plenty of outlets around Mongkok Area. http://www.discoverhongkong.com/eng/gourmet/search/gp_sear_resu2.jsp?ibservic_id=3757&a_id=Hui+Lau+Shan&accountid=AFXRNA000CI6&loc_cond=&disp_name_cond=hui+lau+shan&disp_cat_cond=+All+&disp_loc_cond=+All+&disp_cri_cond=&category=the mango set looks nice, but does not taste as nice. however, worth trying! one need not worry because the shops close after 1am!

Finally we ended our nite with smelly tofu and fishball...these stores can be found al around mongkok.

12:00 AM