Our spacious hotel room

View from the hotel room. The sky is a clear sky-blue ... so nice!

Then we walked through Tung Choi Road to look at the sports shoes outlet before taking a bus to Tsim Sha Tsui. The double-decked buses in Hong Kong were really clean and comfortable! We alighted at the bus terminal just beside Star Ferry terminal and took at stroll along the Victoria Habour. It was about 12 noon and the heat was unbearable!

After some shopping around the Tsim Sha Tsui area, we took the MTR to Causeway Bay. We did not do much shopping there, but just walked around the area and 'see see look look'. We also stopped for a drink at one of the Cafes. I tried their milk pudding but it wasn't nice. I have not found a chance to have Yee Shun's milk pudding, which I know I can be assured of the standard. As the day turned dark, we moved on to take a tram to the Victoria Peak to view the night scenes from the peak and to have our dinner there. The queue to take the tram was so long that we bought the tickets to visit Madam Tussad's wax museum in order to get into the priority queue.

Tram to Victoria Peak

An overloaded tram? We were quite terrified and honestly worried for our safety!

At Madam Tussad's. A stern Einstein looks on......

David Beckham!

Bon Jovi! He is so handsome that I had to plant a kiss on him......

Night view from the peak!

We had our dinner at this place called Cafe Deco at about close to 9.30 pm. The food was pricy but really good! Again, I was so hungry so did not stop to take any photos. I really enjoyed my meal there very much and hoped to return again one of these days.

After the peak, we took a cab down to Lan Kwai Fong to have a feel of the clubbing scene in Hong Kong. Not sure if we walked the right lanes but the place was populated by mainly the Ang Mohs, which reminded of our own Boat Quay. I was hoping to see more locals and how they dress up to go clubbing, especially on a Friday night. But I guess I was disappointed.

I always feel a sense of panic on the second last day of any trip - so many places to visit, so little time left. Our original plan was to visit Macau and their casinos. However, after our 'eat-till-you-pop' timsum breakfast (yes, can you imagine we ordered about 12 different stuff for 2 persons?), it was already 12noon. The ferry journey will take about an hour or so, hence we decided to give Macau a miss and traveled to Tung Chung station - Citygate outlet mall - to do more shopping!

I must say I find Citygate outlet malls quite a let down. Firstly, there weren't many interesting shops there, mostly big brand names, and the discounts were not exactly fantastic. I think I might find better bargains in our Great Singapore Sale! We spent about 2 hours there (including time for coffee) and returned back to Kowloon - Jordan area for the quite well-known Mak Man Kee Wanton noodles. They were really good! The wantons were filled with 2 big pieces of fresh prawns... yummy! After that, we walked towards Park Lane and Grandville road for more shopping. I lurved Grandville road, as I found most of my better buys there!

At the Citigate Outlets

One of the many high rise condominiums found near the Tung Chung MTR.

Mak Man Kee menu.

The noodles come in a rather small bowl. The wantons were all hidden under the pile of noodles. Btw, the veg rocks too!

We went back to hotel to drop our bags, wash up before coming out to search for food again - this time for clay pot rice at Temple street. Finally found the place after much merry-go-round around the area. By the time we were done, its about 11pm. But it was the last night and we refused to return back to hotel, hence we went to APM at Kwun Tong MTR as the mall is supposed to be opened till wee hours of 2am.

And the claypot chicken with mushrooms......

APM Shopping Mall

When we reached there, half the shops were closed! So disappointing. We went round a few floors, resigned to our fate and caught the last train at 12.20am back to hotel.

The last day meant buying souvenirs/food and packing our luggage bags. I went in search of the best Lao Po Bing, which in my opinion has to be Hang Heung's. However, they have lesser outlets as compared to Wing Wah and hence their outlets are harder to find. I had to travel towards Yau Ma Tei MTR to buy the biscuits and lugging them back took even more efforts! The other must buy was Maxim's Almond Flake biscuits. My colleagues were hooked on them when someone bought them for us the last time.

'Dried' 'wanton' mee!

Almond Flakes biscuits!

10:50 PM

Tuesday, June 05, 2007

Posting again

Finally, after a long break from blogging!

I had a long break because my notebook was down. It took Fujitsu about 2 weeks plus to replace the harddisk and me another 3 weeks to finally get everything installed and for the machine to work reasonably. Life without a notebook was hard......;-P

Labels: break, Notebook

12:39 AM

Monday, June 04, 2007

Mini Part II

As per Wah blogger's request for more pictures on the mini, here they are after a looooooong await......

Rear Mirror

My favourite - vainity mirror with
lights!

Driver seat and wheel

Close up

Speedometer and the central unit -
whatever you call it, Hi-fi, air-con control, etc.

Passenger door.