Work was cancelled on 25th June (Wed) itself because idw ended up rushing to and fro from town & home & airport. So basically, i spent the whole day at home and ofc last minute packing luggage.
Started to count down, and parents (as always so sweet and nice to their daughters) fetched me down to Changi Airport Terminal 1 to meet up with the man.
(hi to the readers who've never seen the four-eyed jess)
Our flight was 120am on the 26th June with Cathay Pacific, thinking our luggages were a burden, the man went ahead to check whether we could checked in our luggages waaaaaaay before 1120pm.
Checked in & walked around the airport > have a quick bite.
Was told to reached the boarding place at like 1250AM latest, and wait for our flight.
The flight was EMPTY, like EMPTY kinda EMPTY, prolly because of the ungodly hour flight to Hongkong.
The people just changed seats as and when they like, and brought up the arm rest, and treat the 3 seaters seat as a bed to them with blanket and supper on their original seat.
The man was asleep, and ofc im wide awake (i nua the whole day the day before), catching up with The Hunger Games on the flight.
Time checked: 5am, and we've safely reached Hong Kong International Airport, been 2 years since i last set foot on Hongkong Airport. Much reminisce, and ofc after spammed watching Triumph In The Skies/ Triumph In The Skies 2, make me even more excited over the Hongkong trip.
First thing first, bought our 3G SIM card, and waited for the first A21 bus to operate, and headed off to our apartment booked via AirBnb at Mongkok.
Reached 137-139 Sai Yee Street, and wanted to checked in early, but there's no rooms available yet, BUT the owners (Charles and Celia) being really accomodative, allows us to leave our luggages by the corridor (the main door is locked unless u've password).
A must have milk tea, and Bo Lo Yau in authentic Hongkong Char Chan Teng.
Kai Kee Restaurant (佳记餐厅)
177-181 Portland Street, Mong Kok, Hong Kong
(please pardon if i can't rmbr the exact details, IT'S LIKE A MONTH PLUS BACK YKNOW)
Day 1 (26th June 2014) - Familiarizing the nearby streets, Mong Kok.
Been "suan" by the man for umpteen times, cos the previous time i went I NEVER EVEN ATE IT BEFORE.
My opinion: Eat once for the sake of eating it authentically in Hongkong, it tasted the same like Sg's one. Don't worry if you had it missed out. LOL
Shopping around Fa Yuen Street (Sneakers Street/ 花园街).
It's a must go place, if you're a shoes person. MASS SHOPPING SPREE FOR SHOES!!!
Okay actually no, we didn't MASS shopping on the first day right after we touched down. HHAHAHA
Walked around Ladies Street and walk along Temple Street on the street market, and headed to Mido Cafe!!
The Cafe that the man have been talking about EVEN BEFORE the trip.
Mido Cafe is the old school style cafe btw.
Mido Cafe (美都餐室）
63 Temple Street, Yau Ma Tei, Hong Kong
Went back to Temple Street, Ladies Market and Fa Yuen Street to do late night shopping before going back to washed up and down to some random late night restaurant at around 11pm+ for supper.
Conked out really fast on the first night, cos we're both sooooooooooo worn out.
Day 2 (27th June 2014) - Shenzhen, Citygate Outlet Mall, Harbour City.
Woke up really early and feeling sooooooo refreshed. Took the MTR to Luohu and headed off to Shen zhen, China.
Settled breakfast at one of the dimsum restaurant in Lo Wu Commercial City, as most of the shops ain't open yet.
WAAAAAAAAAAAY BETTER THAN SWEE CHOON AND 126 FOR REAL.
After breakfast, HERE COMES THE CRISIS!!!!
Crisis: feeling damn lazy to take train down to Lao Jie for shopping.......!
How we solve it?
We took train back to Hong kong right away, and headed to Citygate Outlet Mall to walk around. #majorphail #wasteoftime #sofickleminded
Excuse me, i went up and down the escalator quite a few times to take a non blurred shot. Seems like im playing with the escalator when the man was looking at me doing it a level below, wtf i feel so stupid even by thinking it now.
BUT NVM, DAVID VILLA IS MAJOR LOVE, CAN SACRIFICE THAT 5-10MINS BEING STUPID.
Opinions on both Citygate and Harbour City: DON'T WASTE TIME GOING. Outlet stores but you can never find your size on the ones you like OR the ones that you've found your size, are those fugly ones. OR MAYBE, you found something you like, but the price is no where ON SALES!
Bobian lan lan suck thumb lor.
Wanton is hugeass big, and the roasted duck is major love. OMG I CAN'T GET ENOUGH OF HONG KONG FOOOOOODS.
Yuan Kee Restaurant (源记餐厅)
G/F 18B Granville Road, Tsim Sha Tsui, Hong Kong
Headed back to the street food stalls by our apartment, get some snacks up before washing up and knocking out on bed at 11pm+ as well.
Day 3 (28th June 2014) - Sheung Wan, Central, Causeway Bay.
Went out at like 830am? Cos we know the dimsum place we're going IS GNG TO BE MADNESS. Madness QUEUES, Madness PEOPLE, Madness SERVICE, Madness EVERYTHING!!!
This is a true blue authentic Hong Kong Style Dimsum Restaurant, yknow where much older people pushing the carts around, and people snatching the dimsum when it was freshly out from the kitchen.
MADNESS.
(reminder: if you can't stand people shouting at you, snatching your dimsum, and pushing you - IT'S NOT RECOMMENDED FOR YOU TO GO!!!! but please sacrifice ONCE for the foods, it's heavenly)
We definitely ate more than what's on the pix. The man was busy snatching food, and i was busy finishing food, cos the table was too small for 4 pax (it's normal to share table with strangers in hongkong).
Just look at the gawd damn crowd.......................... it's like maybe 10am when we left the place. IT'S CRAZY.
Anyw the amount only summed up to SGD$16-$20? FUCKING CHEAP.
Lin Heung Tea House (莲香楼)
160-164 Wellington Street, Sheung Wan, Hong Kong
Opening Hours: 9am to 10pm
After a fulfilling breakfast, walked around the morning market along Sheung Wan before heading to Central for the Papier Mache Panda Exhibition!!
After which, went over to PMQ HQ for the Papier Mache Exhibition.
The sun was motherfuckening scorching hot, the hills are motherfuckening steep, half of my life is gone when we reached the entrance.
Thanks the man for willing to fork out like 45mins to accompany me through the pandas exhibition.
OMGAHH THEY'RE EXTREMELY QTPIE.
1,600 of papier mache pandas!
Skipped the Hug Hug Panda Zone, cos it's like thousand of people queuing up to have selfie with the pandas under such wtf weather, so no go.
Papier Mache Panda Exhibition
No.35 Aberdeen Street, Central, Hong Kong
Walked around Central after that, and walked past Lan Kwai Fong (the dead alley before it opens at night), before heading over to Starbucks Bing Sutt!!
Always wanted to visit the vintage old school Starbucks Bing Sutt!
It's like half of the outlet was the normal Starbucks concept we see in Singapore, but another half is extremely RETRO. Major fall in love.
The Starbucks Concept Store - Starbucks Bing Sutt (Starbucks 冰室)
Shop M2, Mezzanine Floor, Baskerville House
13 Duddell Street, Central, Hong Kong
Headed off to Causeway Bay for another shopping spree around the area, and there's this Dairy Company named Yee Shun Dairy Company.
IT's all about the milk stuffs.
We did our homework - there's two famous Dairy Company, 1 is Yee Shun another will be Australian Dairy Company.
Wanted to eat the one at Mong Kok, but since Causeway Bay have one outlet, so why not?
How does it taste?
For those who hated dairy products, PLEASE GET FAR AWAY FROM THIS LITTLE BITCH. Or else.... If you're those who's okay with dairy products - THIS WILL BE THE MOST HEAVENLY DESSERT YOU EVER HAD.
Fucking. Delicious. Period.
Yee Shun Milk Company (義順牛奶公司)
G/F 506 Lockhard Road, Causeway Bay, Hong Kong
Found another I.T store around Causeway Bay area, another humongous one with tonnes of brands inside, chanced upon a Fingercroxx Tshirt, but i didn't get it in the end, cos idk why? #fickledmind
Bought my Roshe sneaks at one of the Nike outlet over at Causeway Bay as well, it's definitely the best buy everrrrrr!
And i think it's only SGD$90??!
FUCKING. CHEAP.
After which, headed to SOGO, and the man and me was like staring at people boarding this particular bus.
Tbh, i wanted to board it SINCE 2 YEARS AGO, but because it's my first trip to Hongkong, and i didn't do the itinerary so i just shut my ass mouth up on suggesting to board this unique bus.
So i was randomly telling the man like "我想坐那个bus叻，可是我不敢，都不懂去那里的". And the man was like "Aiya, just 坐啦，try try不会死".
And that's how we ended up on this unique bus, which is called 叮叮车 by the locals, due to the bell rang by the driver goes "Ding Ding Ding Ding Ding Ding" whenever they're stopping.
Took this 叮叮车 till Happy Valley (跑马地), and thought of settling our dinner over there, but to our surprise, Happy Valley is just like another Hougang. NO malls, NO parks, it's all housing estate.
With the help of the Caucasian family (thank god they speaked english), we managed to board another 叮叮车 back to Causeway Bay from the Happy Valley Interchange.
A trip it's like HKD2.40? So make it like 60c per trip? WTF I LOVE HONGKONG.
Recognize some streets along Causeway Bay as i used to stayed at Cosmopolitan Hotel back 2 years ago with my poly girls. And i found out something about that Hotel.
Whatever Cien said was right, behind Cosmopolitan Hotel was a cemetery. :/ Didn't realise until 2 years later.
Roast Goose and Veggies.
Walked around Time Square, and the man went to secretly buy Fingercroxx shirt for me when im walking around by my own.
THANKYOU.
When the time is up, went back to Mong Kok, shopped around Fa Yuen Street and Ladies Market again before getting some snacks and headed back to apartment.
This blog post sums up the first three days at Hong Kong.
Will blog again on the last 3 days in the following post, so tired by typing and recalling all this out.
Till then....
YJessica, X
(next up: Hong Kong Day 4-6)
