HK Day

It was hong kong day and we were going to take the Cotai Jet over. At the ferry terminal, irene was stunned to see customs counters after passing the boarding area. She had adviced the aumties that no passports were required to cross over. They had to go back to get theirs. Thankfully my family always had our passports in us, so we crossed over first.

The hongkong ferry terminal was at 上环 n we were starving. Maxim's dim sum was our target but couldn't find it anywhere. Wat was availble was only Maxim's fast food. Dad was freaking hungry and didn't agree that we continued searching. Yan enquired at maxim's fast food and luckily there was a branch just nearby.

On the 3rd floor if vicwood plaza was this 潮源 restaurant which is a subsidiary under Maxims. It served mainly teochew cusine and there was no dim sum push carts around sadly. There were a few unique teochew dim sum items tho and they tasted really good. Coupled with some other dim sum items and porridge (soupy teochew style too, I love), the lunch was satisfying but not cheap (HKD517 for 5 pax).

Next was taking the MTR to Wong Tai Sin temple. At the station, old aunties hawked and hard-sold the offering items like joss-sticks. Luckily mum didn't budge as these were actually not allowed to be brought into the temple.

We prayed, looked around and took some must-have photos and headed in search of cheap shopping.

We reached 深水颇 to go 长沙湾道 where there are ladies' fashion at wholesale prices. The guys split from the girls as usual n we chanced upon this are that was like Singapore's Sungei Road flea market. It was actually the 匣聊街 where electronic goods, new n second hand ones were traded. I didn't harbour hopes of getting anything here but it was interesting to experience the local bustle. Dad was thrilled to see the hardware stores and Andrew looked at car accessories. I managed to buy two iPhone covers for only SGD7 each. Both are of decent quality.

I found the MR magazine too, after seeing its advertising billboards at the MTR stations, featuring the SDB Thai actor/model Mario Maurer.

A failed mission to find the adidas outlet at Lai Chi Kok station, we then headed to Mongkok, where the ladies street n sports goods street are.

The famous desserts shop 许留山was right in front of us at exit e2 and we took a much needed break. Yan, mum n dad took to the Ladies Street while Andre and I hunted for sports stuff at Fa Yuen Street. I bought a pair of adidas originals for SGD 55 and Andre got a Nike basketball jacket for about HKD450. Then we met up with the rest cuz they called to complain ladies street was shite.

Then we took the MTR to Central Station n had to walk up a hill to the Peak Tram. There was quite a crowd queueing for the tram and each tram took like 5 min to arrive. Along the way up were the upmarket residences. At the top, we headed up to the err top n the view was indeed enchanting. We settled for a Burger King dinner and toured the peak area a bit more.

Then it was back to Macau.

It was a pretty disappointing day as there was almost zero shopping and Yan and I planned to returntn to 珠海 for more shopping.



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