Hong Kong

So on the early morning of the 16th of August, I prepared to hop on the plane to Macau. After a 2 hours flight delay and a rough ferry ride from Macau, I present to you...

HONG KONG!

DAY 1

Didn't do much, checked in to the hotel, ate some Wanton Mee (sorry no pics, was too famished) and received a call from Uncle Jason that he's on route to fetch us to the much promised seafood feast...

"Hoi Sin Tou" - English translation "Seafood Island". Well technically it's not really an island, but then again it was raining and too dark to really see the surrounding. But who cares... What's important is we can see...

THIS! Lots and lots of live seafood awaiting to be served for our pleasure. Sounds cruel, yea well that's life.

Our first dish is nothing really special - Prawns.

Here comes our second dish... Fried cuttlefish/squid/sotong whatever you call them. Very very crunchy to our delight.

This dish is one of the highlights of the night. Cheesed lobsters! There's also noodles underneath all those cheesy goodness that's not seen in this picture.

I don't know what's this called... Bamboo clam or something. It's pretty common in Malaysia as well but these are well, much larger.

No need for introduction here, CRABS! Cooked with ginger.

The customary vegetable dish.

The customary soup. Tastes like the soup from the usual fish head noodles, but much tastier.

What's a seafood fiesta without fish?

And what's chinese dinner without rice? (as usual in all other major chinese dinner, we are not able to finish the rice and have to 'ta pao')

Ok this is not part of the menu, but we brought along some durian for desserts.

But damn we're greedy... We still went to a dessert shop for more dessert. This here is some ice cream mixed with... Something. Gilman ordered.

This is some chocolate mousse thingy that taste like Tiramisu. It's chillin' cold and FOUR of us ordered it. (well, most of us can't read chinese and we just ordered what Uncle ordered)

Some fruits with... Again something. Danny ordered.

DAY 2

Supposed to go to some fancy restaurant for some sumptious Dim Sum, but unfortunately we woke up too early and the restaurant is not opened yet. So Hazel brought us to...

The Sphaghetti House!

Apparently a pretty popular chain of pasta restaurants, I actually think I saw more outlets than McDonald's. Anyway, onward to the food!

This is the seafood pasta me and my wifey ordered.

It's a set meal, so it comes with a complimentary asparagus-scallop soup. Very nice. (insert Borat emoticon here)

Another variant of seafood pasta... I forgot who ordered.

I don't... Even remember what is this.

Same goes for this one.

Our second dish (yes the set meal actually consists of 2 main course), some Italian dumpling like thingy... Forgot what's it called. There's black and white dumplings, filled with some lobster meat and other seafood.

Some dish Kin Wah ordered.

Kin Wah's dessert.

So after our brunch, we split and went our separate ways. Hazel and Ken went to some AV (audio-video, not the other AV), Kin Wah and Gil went to Disneyland, and me and Stella went to...

TA-DA!

Nice bunch of flamingoes welcoming us to the park.

A view of the southern Hong Kong skyline on the way to the peak of Ocean Park. Unfortunately, shortly after this picture was taken...

A signal 8 typhoon basically means everyone have to "go home". Shops will be closed. Ocean Park is no exception. Well we still managed to rush through the Underwater World section although we're unable to visit the much touted Jellyfish World (or something) because the queue is still drastically long despite the typhoon warning.

Ah well, after queueing for an hour or so for the bus back to the MTR station, we met up with Kin Wah and Gil (Disneyland was also closed but at least they got their tickets refunded... I didn't /cry) and went to have a stroll along the Avenue of Stars.
Avenue of Stars is where most people view the skyline of Hong Kong city. The wind is still very strong in this part of Hong Kong although the signal 8 typhoon was supposed to have passed by 2 hours ago.

There are a lot of decorations along this avenue, like these statues here.

They even have Hollywood style stars on the pedestrian walkway, but of course only chinese entertainers are honored here.

And no homage to chinese entertainment is to be without a statue of the infamous martial artist, the one and only Bruce Lee.

More statues.

We actually strolled until the evening settled in...

Excuse the blurry pics cause I didn't have a tripod.

Ah well, somewhat a wasted day. All those walking and queueing and getting blown by the wind made us tired and we retired early.

DAY 3

Today we went to...

Okay sorry this pic is a bit blur... Let me climb up the stairs a bit.

Namo Amitabha! The Big Buddha!

A view down the hundred steps I took, from the top.

Some statues around the Big Buddha.

A view of the giant statue from the side.

Customary main sign picture.

Some giant incense pot (it's fake of course).

The 'monastery' nearby. I was expecting a more ancient type of temple... This looks like a regular temple to me.

The "free snack" that we got (as part of the ticket to see the Big Buddha). Some fried meehoon, tau foo far, and pastries. All vegetarian, duh.

No chinese temple is to be without a turtle statue (what's with chinese temples and turtles anyway?).

We went to meet up with Gil and Kin Wah afterwards who were shopping around Times Square... And I found one of my "must visit shop"...

KRISPY KREME!!!1 !!!1one!11

Simply super delicious! The original glaze is fantastic but Stella thinks it's too sweet. The doughnut at the lower right is labelled as "Simpsons Movie Doughnut", but it tastes just like regular strawberry coating.

Anyway night time came (how time flies when you're in Hong Kong!) and we went for dinner at some fancy chinese restaurant by the name of Jade Kitchen... Recommended by Danny.

I think this is beef.

Some winter melon soup (exotically double steamed using an actual winter melon as casing).

Taufu!

Prawns (again).

Egg custard or something like that.

Long beans?

Some fried rice (another "tapao" case).

Tastes like chicken.

Day 4


The next morning (this is the day of our departure back to KL) we went straight to the famous "sweetheart cake" a.k.a "lou poh peng" shop to savour some of the pastry.
Best eaten when served right out of the oven. Yummy!

Not much time to waste, a little bit of shopping and off to the ferry harbour we go!

Back to Macau!

Some "authentic" Portuguese Egg Tarts we ate at the airport food court (uber expensive food there btw).

So that's all, folks! Sorry for the very brief description of this journey (and the food and the pictures and whatever) but it's sort of 4.30pm now in office and I have to pack up and prepare to go home now... Adios!