Having Fun in Hong Kong Day 2

The next morning we were supposed to have breakky at Mido Café, also near Yau Ma Tei MTR station. The reviews for it were not bad and we wanted to experience having breakfast in a rustic environment. But it was closed and we wanted to set off early to see the Big Buddha so we settled down at a random Cha Chan Teng.

 

The mum's Beef Bee Hoon I think.

Had a plate of fried noodles for sharing.

My Pork Chop Bun.

The dad and sister ordered the congee. Didn't take note of the name of this place but I wouldn't recommend this anyway. Before I came here I used to think that every shop in Hong Kong sells fantastic food.

Yay next was a visit to Lantau Island! Started our tour with Ngong Ping Village!

Directions by bus: Take the MTR Tung Chung Line to Tung Chung Station. Then take New Lantau Bus No. 23 to Ngong Ping. The journey will take about 50 minutes. But our driver drove pretty fast and we reached in about half an hour time. You can also choose to take the cable car over it's much faster I think.

I got to see the Big Buddha at last!! After climbing 268 steps!! And I made it bwahahaha!

Fabulous view from the top!

Photo by myself.

Then we came down and immediately felt like we needed some food to generate more energy.

This Chee Cheong Fun was awesome.

And the Tau Huey and Glutinous Rice. Awesome and awesome.

Next we went to Tai-O because the mother heard that it looks like the Venice of Hong Kong and wanted to take a look at this village so badly.

From Ngong Ping Village to Tai-O, take Bus No. 21. Buses arrive at intervals of 20 minutes. We googled the bus schedule online haha!

Let's not kid ourselves. It looks more like Kukup.

Dried oysters.

Live seafood.

Dried salted fishes.

More of them.

And even dried pufferfish, I thought it was damn disgusting.

We bought sotong and curry fishballs from this stall near the entrance. Not cheap but freaking delicious we contemplated to get second servings!!

The recommended things to eat at Tai-O village are the egglets, beancurd, lor mai chi, Chinese pizza and grilled seafood. We didn't see most of these food though. :(  

That night we had the famous Hing Kee Claypot Rice for dinner. The nearest MTR station was Yau Ma Tei and Hing Kee is located along temple street. They have quite a number of branches so you couldn't possibly miss them!

  While we were strolling along our hotel district we came across Yee Shun Milk Company. We mistook it for Australian Diary Company and stupidly walked in lolol. But I think this is also quite a famous place for desserts. This milk pudding was pretty good, although I don't really like milk puddings.

I ordered this thinking that it was some mango pudding and when I saw a drink I was super disappointed lol! But ohmygosh it's freaking nice I could drink 2 cups on my own. Blessing in disguise. :D  

 

 

 

 

 

 

Having Fun in Hong Kong Day 1

Finally blogging about my 4 days Hong Kong trip last month!!

We took Cathay Pacific airlines. The flight was in the morning and we reached the Changi Airport at around 4+ am. I didn't get to sleep though, because I went out to play the night before and only started packing my luggage at around midnight. Served me right. :(

 Boarding area.

I love airplane food!! Was super excited even from the lack of sleep! And eating in front of a movie screen makes me very very happy, always! The sister recommended the movie Divergent, it was really good! I attempted to watch Tinkle Bells initially lolol.  

 CityView Hotel.

This was the second time we were staying here. I liked the room clean and spacious and the location was pretty ideal as well, very close to the subway station!

 

Bathroom.

New towels were replaced daily and the bathroom was spotless!!

Artistic corner in the room lol.

Sham Tseng Chan Kee Roasted Goose.

First meal after we touched down. The other time we came here as well and we loved the food!  

Soup of the day.

Roasted Goose.

This was the highlight! Very sinful but tasted sooooo good, especially with the sour plum sauce yummy!

Char Siew!!!

The Char Siew in Hong Kong is so freaking nice I don't even know what it is made of.

 

Quack quack!

That night we went to Avenue of Stars.

 

Before the sky turned dark.

The parents were so engrossed with the singing performances. Hong Kong's 黄金年华!

This little boy was obviously the hot favourite of everyone. He was like a little star, going around shaking hands!

 We were there early with the intention to chop a good standing place to catch the Symphony of Lights. But everyone was even more Kiasu than us and we ended up with nowhere to stand! Lucky for us a couple decided to go off early and we got to capture some nice photos heehee!

 

 

 

Dinner was at Sheng Kee Congee & Noodles shop just opposite our hotel. This was also one of the shops we ate at few years ago and I would crave for their pig liver congee from time to time!! I was so happy I finally got to eat this again!!

We saw Cai Lan's articles everywhere. I think he ate the whole Hong Kong.

Beef tendon noodles.

Beef stomach noodles.

My favourite pig liver congee! 

Somehow the pig livers have a different texture from those in Singapore. They taste fantastic with the sauce and spring onions!

Fei Jie just down the corner of our hotel.

My sister sent me to queue for some after dinner snacks. So that's me first in line. The stall didn't allow any photography so she sneakily took it from the corner lol! 

Squid, duck kidneys and intestines.  

I know they sound disgusting but 真的很好吃!!

Smelly tofu!

I used to be afraid of this although I eat everything. But I fell in love with this after taking a bite heehee!

There was a new shop called Honey Granny selling honey ice cream and it attracted quite a large crowd. The sister quietly went to queue for it out of curiosity and came back with a cup.

Tasted marvelous. The honey was super fragrant and blended well with the soft serve. I didn't like the honey comb on the top though. I took a little bite out of it and started chewing, thinking that it would dissolve in my mouth like sugar. But it was like chewing gum and tasted quite disgusting after awhile.

This was the end of our first day, I think we did quite a lot! :D