Hello! I'm back from Hong Kong!
If you are secretly wondering if I got any gifts for you pls slap yourself.
I gave a lot of thought to what I should buy for my ten friends and it kind of stressed me out a little.
For everyone who asked me to get them specific items I did ( except for Bee and Weiwei. I cannot find them their things! ) and for those who didn't..
They should have paid for my air tickets and accomodation-confirm get presents.
I lovvvvvvvvveeee Hong Kong so much where do I start.
When our coach drove into our streets+
When I saw the dim sum place+
When we went to Ocean Park+
When we saw the gorgeous night scenery at The Peak+
When we visited Lan Kwai Fong[!]
My heart pumped really fast.
The streets are exactly like my favourite Hong Kong Tv serials with lots of old flats and billboards.
I know its supposed to look like that but its different seeing it with your own
eyes.
HongKong boys are very very pretty too.
90% of the 16-30 year olds surveyed by myself was handsome with porcelain smooth skin.
Most of the people there are thin even though they serve freaky quantities of rice.
The portions are ridiculously huge for rice and noodles, like twice the amount they serve in singapore.
So you can tell we wasted a lot of food.
I figured out why they're thin after 4 days of walking 60% of the time from one place to another.
As you know I'm a bad walker and this walking makes me lag behind the other 3 fast walkers so most of the time I felt like I was travelling on my own.
=(
Shopping
The first place travel guides introduce for shopping is Temple Street and Women's Street but we think its crap.
Along Temple Street
Its interesting and bustling with life but the different stalls sell the exact same things
eg. At Women's Street,
Stall 1: Bags
Stall 2: Sunglasses
Stall 3: Caps and some clothes
Stall 4: Bags
Stall 5: Sunglasses
Stall 6: Caps and more clothes
[There are repeated shoes and hair clips stalls too. add it in if it pleases you]
etc etc.
They sell the exact same things exact same things exact same things.
Even looking at the words can be irritating, just imagine walking a marathon's distance looking at the exact same things exact same things exact same things.
I bought door curtains for myself and 1 extra I don't know who to give to.
This entry is a reminder for myself if I go to HK in future and friends who are going who don't wish to waste time.
You can take a look at these streets but I doubt that you'll buy much so its not prudent to allocate too much time for that.
For people like Melissa and Yiteng who are very difficult and extremely picky shoppers it's recommended to shop at HK factory outlets.
Bet you don't know where it is. ^_^
If you know and didn't tell me please slap yourself again.
Anyway its at the MTR: Tung Chung station.
[ I'm such a kind hearted person. ]
We didn't plan to shop there but its thanks to Melissa that we fortitously found it.
She wanted to use the toilet after we came down from the Big Buddha mountain.
The only toilet nearby was in the Tung Chung shopping centre beside the MTR.
The whole 4 storeys was filled with international brands such as Espirit, Timberland, Adidas, Nike, Levis, Newbalance, Bodyshop etc factory outlets.
Factory outlets=super cheap. [Relative to retail prices.]
Thing is the clothes and merchanise are not in the season now, so if you're that kind who cares about what to wear in what season then don't go there.
Nice wallpapers outside Quiksilver.
The other shopping centre was Arglye Shopping Centre along Argyle Street near Mong Kok MTR station.
Eating packeted noodles outside the shops.
Its primarily for teenage
If you like fluff, glitter, lace, bubble skirt, prints on t-shirts, you'll buy a lot of things.
You can compare the structure with Far East Shopping Centre if you like.
Its actually my favourite shopping centre because its colourful, bright and you can't find the same bag or clothing every 5steps you take. [unlike Bugis Street]
Too bad they didn't allow trying on of clothing.
I really like the neck scarves which are so smooth and colourful but too frivolous.
If only Singapore was colder..
My birthday is on the 19th September.
No reason for saying that.
Unless you're getting a soft long scarf as an early present for me.
Anyway,
The sales assistants were at last, not rude!
See, we got cursed at so many times at Women's Street for browsing and not buying.
It left a really bad impression, okay worse, I wanted to overturn that lady's tables.
Talking about bad service, this restaurant at The Peak made us wait for 40 mins for food.
And the other table who entered later than us got their food first.
After 30 mins of waiting I was quite ready to leave but yt wanted to wait somemore[wah lao] while they went to buy some baby stuff.
We didn't deserve such tardy service since we're paying good money and the only waitress totally ignored us until we demanded to know when the food will come.
Melissa even wanted to help her cook our meals to cure our starving selves.
You don't know how grateful I was when Mely's bf slapped the table[after 40 mins] and told the waitress that we didn't deserve such bad service and told her to go and die[I think he said that, can't remember].
Food
My favourite food there would be the dim sum, no doubt.
Its not only delicious, its freaking cheap!
Only about S$5 per person for a burping full stomach.
That was not all but we were too busy eating later on to take more photos.
Noodles and rice at the eatery.
The food stalls by the streets were quite edible and chou dou fu[smelly tofu] smells like the rubbish chute beneath HDB flats.
I like the ham sticks, and fishballs[totally different from Singapore ones] and century egg fried in fish cake. Yummy.
Be prepared to lao sai.
Caution: Do not eat curry there.
Eat curry in Singapore.
Its not spicy nor fragrant, just.. gooey.
7Eleven s are ubiquitous.
No point saying how you see one around every corner as it would seem the case in Singapore but it is much much worse.
Entering Lao Po Bing shop.
Places of Interest
Ocean Park
Scary roller coasters.
That highest structure was my favourite and scariest ride.
I think its the same one as the one in Genting.
That place is practically an island on its own.
It was quite fun for me as I have always liked theme parks.
Mely and yt missed out most of the rides, what a shame, because they felt like vomiting.
In the cable car busy eating chicken.
In the hot air balloon.
Besides heart-attack inducing rides there were aviaries, underwater tanks and exhibitions for reptiles and sea creatures [its called Ocean Park for a reason] .
Clown Fishes.
Crab.. meat
I can say that the S$37 was not wasted despite the big hole in our pockets.
I had a caricature of myself drawn for S$12 so that I can hang it my bed.
After it was drawn I decided not to.
But its cute la.
That night we went to The Peak for the night view.
The temperature might as well had been 10 degrees celsius.
We had to stand in the chilly wind to wait for the tram.
It was my first time on the tram I think it was pretty cool to see the land 45 degrees slanted to ourselves when descending the mountain.
Lan Kwai Fong did not disappoint me.!
It was a happening street with 80% Ang Mohs with bottles outsides pubs.
The local youngsters hung out with bottles too outside 7Eleven.
We couldn't find any clubs to go into because most were bars filled with Ang Mohs and Yt wanted to go back.
Sian diao. Next time maybe.
We went to Shen Zhen for shopping.
Bought 3 pairs of footwear.
Mdm Tussauds
Finally found him.
Does blonde look good on me?
I've-got-cancer-and-I'm-dying drama serial background.
Jay Chou who didn't look like himself at all.
I'm quite sick of typing.
Cable cars are my favourite mode of transport.
On our way to Big Buddha.
View from the top.
How majestic.
Intricate designs of nature.
LoveBirds.
Its even more disgusting real life.
We should have followed their building of glass partitions earlier to prevent so many MRT suicide cases.
There are lights blinking to indicate which stop it was and which direction the train was going.
I would very much appreciate it if implemented in Singapore to reduce the number of times I have to alight because I was taking the wrong direction.
The MTR system is very similar to Singapore obviously because we followed their model.
I imagine that this transport facilities will be so advanced in the future that they will attach a tapping hand beside each seat just above the shoulder to wake people up when they reach their stops.
Benefits everyone right?
Thank goodness we had Mely's boyfriend as our GPRS to tell us our location and bring us from place to place.
Even with the maps the roads are really complicated.!
Goodbye HK! I will be back.
I almost died from packing my luggage.
A lot of things for myself.
Pretty.
My new favourite pair of shoes from Shen Zhen.
Most expensive too.
These pictures are handdrawn you can order shoes from him at www.rancity.com.
These heels are too big for me I'm so upset la.
Does anyone with size 39 want it?
I'll sell it to you at a reasonably cheap price.
I really love HK.
Thank you Melissa for your very nice pictures and company. =)
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