HK Trip Part 2

Ok, now that i am wide and awake, here is the second part to my HK Trip. Now where did i stop..yup after Ocean Park. That day after Ocean Park we went back to the hotel to rest our feet and wanted to bathe as well, but then we were going to go out again so no point. So this is what we did in the hotel room...

Cam whoring, typical huh?

Well, after that we basically went back to Fa Yuen Gai for shopping, and that was the night that i bought 4 pairs of shoes! haha, but one was for my sister k, so strictly speaking only 3 was mine.Ing Ing bought 4 pairs for herself, or was it 5? Anyways after that we went back tired but satisfied cause we bought so many things!

The next day was kinda our last full day we had. We decided to explore different places. Anyway the subway was very convenient and we bought the unlimited rides card so we just chose different stations and got off and explored. We decided on the different stations according to what i saw and heard on TV before haha, i know its stupid, but the shows are where i learnt lots of HK stuff from man.

So the first station that we went to was Lai Chi Kok, and this is like quite a ulu place i think, something like Katong in Singapore, you know where not much shopping can be done? But we didn't know and just wanted to explore.

We stumbled upon this place called the Trendy Plaza and its something like a factory outlet so we were like "oh my! We found a good shopping place!" But after going in, it was totally off. The clothes there were like for ah ma's or like perhaps the older generation. Only a few stores sold clothes that are not bad, but overall no, its not a good or rather nice shopping place. Besides, clothes there weren't that cheap as well. Gave up shopping there and we went looking for a HK cafe again. Simply love the food and drinks in these cafes.

This was a bigger cafe and the eel fried rice was so nice! Loved every bit of it, the other beef fried hor fun thing that we ordered was not too bad also, but a bit oily. Realised that they eat rather oily stuff in HK and as usual the milk tea was the best!

On some street in Lai Chi Kok still

Its not because of haze or anything that caused the pic to look so misty. Its cause i came out from a air conditioned place so condensation took place on my camera lens haha, the cute HK guy taking this pic for us was also confused on why the pic he took looked so misty.

Back onto the train to continue our journey.

After Lai Chi Kok we went to a few more stations such as Kowloon Tong, Causeway Bay, Yau Ma Dei, but i can't remember the exact sequence. I can only remember that Kowloon Tong has nothing. No shops of whatsoever, mainly schools, Uni's and hospital. Think We didnt really know how to walk that area as well so we didn't stay there for long. At Yau Ma Dei station when we were going to exit, I saw this street called Apliu Street, and there was once this HK show about Apliu street where Bobby Au Yeung was the main actor, don't know if you guys watched that show before so i was of course excited and wanted to go!

The Busy Apliu Street

And the place was really the same as shown in the show! They have different sections of the street selling different things, and in the show they mainly filmed the section selling second hand household stuff and electrical appliances. So cool! I always wanted to see the places I see on TV. Haha didn't even plan to come to this Apliu Street place but just stumbled upon it. There was also a wet market there. Show you more of the typical HK wet market.


The Butcher

The Fishmonger


The dried goods store

Haha aren't all these they typical market stores you see on TV? But i believe this belongs to the lower class area cause mainly old people go there to buy stuff and some of the things there are slightly cheaper as well. The seafood there looks fresh though, like almost all of their seafood are live. As you can see in the pic, they are all swimming in water. Too bad there is nowhere i can cook in the hotel or i would love to buy their prawns, so big and fresh.

At night, we decided to go the upper class area, that is Central. That is where most of the law firms are and the more expensive shopping place are. They have a shopping center there called Times Square, something like the Takashimaya in Singapore, but not for tourist like us that are looking for cheap bargains haha.

Outside Times Square

Ing and me outside Times Square, looks a bit like Japan eh?

We walked around and ate some roadside snacks and decided it was time to head for the Victoria Peak. We were supposed to take a tram up so we followed the roadsigns showing us to the tramstop. We finally came to this place where we saw people queuing up so we went to queue as well. This bus that we boarded had a open air top so ing and I were very excited and went all the way up. Looking at scenery, enjoying the breeze, everything was perfect until we realised we were on the wrong bus! That was the bus that was going down the peak and not up so we were driven to the bus terminal. We ask the bus conductor and he told us to just walk a bit up and there will be a bus to take us up. We followed his instructions and found the bus going up the peak. I tell you, the bus ride was seriously like a roller coaster ride man. The road up to the Peak was very windy, something like the road up to Genting and it was a two way lane as well. It was pretty freaky cause lthe road the bus was travelling on was like right next to a slope, and not forgetting it was a double decker bus, so if it were just to go out of track a bit, we would be tumbling downhill, am so glad i only get plane sick and not car sick. When we finally reached the peak, we realised that the bus we took up was not the tram! We were supposed to go into a building to take the tram that would take us perhaps only 5 or 10 mins to reach the peak? We risked our lives for nothing, but the view from above really made the bus ride worth it!

This is the electric tram that we were supposed to take up

Took the tram back down and headed for Lan Kwai Fong. This is the famous district in HK where all the clubs and pubs are at. I didn't go there to club though, jus to see how its like. Nothing really that special, think Singapore's night life is more happening haha.

I must say me and ing were quite lucky cause there was some celebration party going on and many HK stars were coming for the event. So as usual KPO me wanted to see them so we found a nice little table next to the club the celebration was going to be held and waited for the stars to arrive haha.

Bestie happy with her drink

Us and our table

They soon came, but i didnt manage to capture real good pics of them, however i did manage to see them clearly cause there were not much people there surprisingly, only reporters. I will post the poor quality pics up, sorry if you can't see much yea.

The girl who acted as Fiona in some police show, dunno her name haha

Some models, i also dunno who they are

Er, actually i only got 2 pics haha, the rest were videos and i have no idea how to upload them here, sorry! Anyway the more famous stars that went for the event were GiGi Leung, Kevin Cheng, Zeng Zidan and Huang Bai Ming. My poor bestie was sitting alone at the table when KPO me was trying to be the paparazzi haha. Nevermind, i will try to do better the next time.

This was a very long day for both of us and also our last night = )

Finally on our last day we went to run some errands. Bought stuff for my parents like lao po bing and some other food stuff. Covered the Flower market and Women's Street again to see for the last time wat else did we want to buy and i bought another bag haha, and bestie bought like 2 more or was it 3?She really bought lots of bag this time round.

As we were walking, we passed by this shoe shop and in the shop there was this very beautiful shetland sheepdog and it was so well behaved! It sat there, and when customers were coming in or going out it will move up or away like sorta to welcome them or send them off kinda thing. The owner is pretty smart to bring it to the shop, cause i am sure it would attract people, especially animal lovers!

Didnt have much time to shop cause we still had a flight to catch, and blur me got the flight time wrong. Luckily ing kept asking me to leave for the airport earlier just in case and it was only when we were at the airport that i realised i told her the wrong time so phew! Since we were taking a budget airline, we had to take a connecting bus that would bring us to some ulu parts of the runway to board the plane so while waiting for the bus, again, picture time!

At the lounge waiting for the connecting bus

Well so that was basically my HK Trip, Bye Bye HK!

My HK Trip Part 1

Ok, i know this is a bit late, but better late den never rite?

After like 4 years since the last time i went on a trip with my bestie Ing Ing, we finally did it again! Actually it shouldn't be again, cause the last time trip after our O's to Australia wasn't really just me and her, there was another friend and her family so strictly speaking, this is our first trip together! I had lots of fun, especially the shopping part. Some stuff are like really cheap but you know what? I still think Singapore is the best shopping place, good quality and nice fashion. I bought mainly shoes and bags when i was there, the clothes there aren't really that nice but shoes are cheap! Those covered toe shoes in far east going for 19.90 or 24.90 can be bought at $10 bucks in HK, regretted not buying more man = (

Anyways, aside from shopping, let me show u more about my trip. This time round we took a budget airline; Jet Star Asia. Its not that bad considering it being a budget airline, even had leather seats. HOWEVER if you are travelling longer distance, i wouldn't reccommend it though, cause the seats can only be declined by so little, so it makes it difficult to sleep.

Me and ing ing in the plane

After 3hrs and 45 mins, we finally arrived at the Hong Kong Airport, picture was taken by a weird Ah pek though haha, but still thanks to him for the taking the first pic for us.

We stayed at Prudential Hotel and if you are looking for good hotels at reasonable rates this is one of the hotels you can consider. Besides, it is situated in the city and there is a train station rite below the building.

And the station is called...



Ing's cousin was wating for us at the hotel lounge when we arrived and was our "tour guide" of the day. She is such a nice lady, treated us for our first meal at a typicial hk cafe.

My yum yum milk tea! The milk tea in HK is so good!

Our food,guess which is mine?

After eating, we started our very first shopping in HK. Went to Fa Yuen Gai, translated as flower street market, something like our Bugis village in Singapore but bigger and with cheaper goods and more variety. But not everything there is cheap. There is this super fierce lady that sells clothes and accessories. Her accessories are nice but some are like more expensive den singapore, and when you try to bargain, she gives u attitude and say things like er..for example k "$5 you dun need to walk on this street already", lousy attitude woman, remember its the first store at the start of Fa Yuen Gai

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After Fa Yuen Gai, we went to Loi Yan Gai which is just about a road away from the end of Fa Yuen Gai, pretty convenient huh? haha anyway Loi Yan Gai is also known as ladies market, but the direct translation is woman's street. All the street street places are where u can get the cheap stuffs so remember these places = )

After our tedious shopping day, we went to somewhere(can't remember issit causeway bay or tsim sha tsui or none of these 2 haha). Its the place where the TV/Movie stars put their handprint on, anybody know where is it?

Anyway, its now HK's 10th anniversary for something so they have this lighting event where all the buildings will be litted up and introduced by this pre recorded machine, you know something like the musical fountain show at sentosa?Yeah, its very like it, just that its much more grand and beautiful, not forgetting there are fireworks as well.

Lighting Event 1

Lighting Event 2

Can you see the fireworks behind us?

Angela, me and Ing at the Avenue of Stars

These marks the end of our first day in HK. A very tiring day! Went out right after we landed and my legs were aching to the max at the end of the day, but worthwhile.

Second day me and Ing were left to explore HK on our own and we decided to go to Ocean Park. Before heading there, we went to another typical HK cafe to have brunch.

See the 2 dark brown cups? Its actually tea but i think in HK no one drinks the tea but use it to wash the utensils instead. I mean you can drink it of course, but its not the what the locals there do usually. so you are supposed to...

Step 1: Take up your utensils

Step 2: Put them in the cup and stir

As simple as that!

We ordered Wanton Noodles and toast to share. The toast is supposedly a famous snack so we asked the lady serving us give us the one most people ordered and it was..

Toast...


with butter and condensed milk!

Yummy!

Simple but nice, i think its quite fattening though haha. The wanton noodles was not that good however. Its basically like noodles with oyster sauce. Super salty, the ones is Singapore are way better.

Ok after a satisfying brunch, off to Ocean Park we go. The last time i went to Ocean Park i was only a kid, perhaps only P1 or P2, I can't remember again haha. But the feeling of going back there is rather different now. I used to be so excited about all the rides and stuff, but this time round i feel like normal. Not forgetting that the weather was freaking hot. Almost got a heat stroke, and i got to admit, i think i am growing old. That includes you Ing haha. We only took about 4 or 5 rides? And i felt sick, but partly was because of the weather and also cause of walking upslope and downslope. I think that's all excuses la, cause when it comes to shopping, me and Ing can shop for the whole day but still dun feel as tired. Oh wells.

At the entrance of Ocean Park

Why did i say earlier on that i had to walk upslope and downslope..because to get to this pacific pier thing, we had to like go up 3 or 4 escalators and long ones! Den from there we had walk downslope again to the rides, i will show u in the coming pictures, but the view from up there is really nice.

See the buildings behind? They are houses in the middle and on top of the hill. The higher you go, the more expensive!

Can you see the roller coaster thing behind? That is downhill and we have to walk all the way down if we want to take the rides there, and over there is also where the aquarium is. Tiring tiring tiring man.

So as we walked down, i was looking at the brochure for some show times. And then i saw this "take picture with the mascot thing" there and the description is something like pose with the seal and take a picture or what and there was this line that said subjected to weather and have to queue up. I was pretty excited about it cause like of course i wanna take a pic with a live seal but there were fixed timings for it so we decided to head to the aquarium first which was downslope. We walked a bit inside, but haven't covered the whole place yet but its time where the mascot was going to appear so we walked upslope and the signboard there had a different time, so we were early. Not to waste time, we walked downslope again to the toilet and went back up but the stupid mascot was not there yet. So we just sat down at the auditorium area to rest and when we were leaving, we finally saw the mascot, and guess wat?

This was the freaking mascot haha. And i thought it was going to be something alive even if it wasn't a seal. Wasted my energy walking up and down the stupid slope and weather made it tonnes worse, but well i still managed to take a pic with "THE MASCOT".

The most relaxing ride of the day was of course the ferries wheel. The view from above was superb.

Us on the ferries wheel

Thats the end of our tiring day at Ocean Park! Willl do part 2 of my trip some other time, cause i really feel like sleeping now..Zzzzz