Long overdued post I know! But I shall post this up still! 😀
I did random stuff. A lot. This year.
So one of the most random and expensive thing I did was to agree and book tickets to Hong Kong one Sunday.
It was after Desmond told me about the SIA offer that they’re giving to Hong Kong. He wanted to go with his gf, but the catch is that in order to enjoy the offer, a minimum of 3 people are required.
Within 15 mins I made my decision, and by the afternoon, a flight booking was made. Hahahaha.
I was determined that this trip will allow me to visit places that I have never been to at HK. I was a little worried at the beginning that because of my youth (haha), Desmond and his gf Kailun will not allow me to venture to places alone. But in the end, everything was pretty spontaneous, we changed plans a bit, and I was able to fulfil my HK to do list! haha so awesome!!
Anyway, this trip was pretty good, as I made new friends with Kailun and her colleague (who joined us and was real great help. Achieved lots of things that I wanted to, which mainly would be to explore more of HK. ^^
This trip was the week before my BKK trip, and naturally, my boss was rather angry. haha. But oh wells.
Anyways, here goes!!
Night 1 (14 June)
Watched a few movies on the plane. SQ is awesome.
I had a near panic on the plane when I realised that by the time we reached HK, it would nearly be past midnight. AND that realisation that you may not get a room coz it’s “the next day” sucks. Haha. Immediately called up the hotel upon landing to make sure that I would still have my room.
Anyway, Kian Tong (KT), who is Kailun’s colleague at work could speak cantonese!! So he was the one who got a cab for us to where our hotels are located.
I checked in to my pleasantly nice hotel room at Guang Dong Hotel with 2 single beds however (no wonder they’re expensive!), and afterwards went downstairs to meet them to walk around. The place was located near lots of pubs and bars, and I got disturbed by a foreigner within 5 mins of going downstairs -.-
All for myself~
So anyway, KT was really familiar with the area and we walked around, bought a SIM card, snacks, and then went back to the hotel for the night. I really settled down pretty fast. It was rather scary to be alone in a quiet hotel room, but I enjoyed the freedom quite a bit to be honest!
Day 1 (15 June)
Woke up rather early!
Kinda miss these kind of views!
Desmond and Kailun
I remembered that KT told us about this nice dim sum place which had “life changing 流沙包” so we headed there. It was a bit weird at first, as I don’t know KT at all, but after this meal, it was all pretty okay! He’s a bio teacher I think?
The place is 添好运 (Tim Ho Wan in Cantonese) [Link at Open Rice]
Awesome chee cheong fun
One of my favourite dessert. Flower with jelly… 桂花糕! lol but they don’t do it like they do in HK!
the 流沙包! But didn’t take the insides. VERY YUMMY THOUGH.
Then they headed to the big Buddha at Lantau Island. As I’ve been there twice, I decided not to go up again. Hung out around Citygate Outlet shopping centre, mainly to buy Body Shop stuffs, use the free Wifi, and just slack.
Saw quite a few Singaporeans.
Afterwards, I headed off myself to a Nunnery!! Chi Lin Nunnery and Nan Lian Garden. They’re just side by side. Wanted to go somewhere quieter instead of seeing the noisy HK all the time!
Pretty exciting btw, travelling to the unknown. But anyway, HK is very accessible and there are loads of directions all over so I didn’t get lost.
The Garden.
Some rock exhibition
It got dark pretty soon! So I headed back to look for the rest to have dinner! Can’t remember what was the place we ate at haha.
Brought them to Tuttimelon Lolol.
Day 2 (16 June)
We met up again to have breakfast! KT brought all of us to this really hidden place to eat Tomato noodles!! I was a bit apprehensive at first, coz tomatoes are usually sour, but I tell you, once you eat one mouth of it, you want more!!!
It’s called 星座冰室 Star Cafe
Shop No. 36, Champagne Court, 16-20 Kimberley Road, Tsim Sha Tsui
尖沙咀金巴利道16-20號香檳大廈地庫36號舖
Very ulu and rather old
YUMMY
We shopped around if I remembered correctly, then headed to another place for more food.
This time, at this place where they shot a famous movie! Unfortunately I don’t remember the name of the movie. LOL
Goldfinch Restaurant
Ok, not I realised that we were basically eating the whole day LOL. KT brought us to eat “life changing wantan noodles” which turned out to be Mak’s Noodles!!
They were life changing indeed. I can’t really eat the Wantan noodles in Singapore anymore since the first time I had them last year.
They went to the Peak after that, and as I’d been to the Peak three times (YES -.-), I decided to hang around their Causeway Bay area and just nua.
Found their City Hall which is like our Esplanade
War memorial
Finally stepped into the church grounds after so many times
After that I think I hung out at this cafe near the Peak to wait for them, and then we went back. haha.
Day 3 – 17 June
Didn’t do much on day 3. Had dim sum for breakfast again!
This place apparently is famous with superstars and it’s quite interesting how it’s underground.
One of the baos is famous, but can’t remember which one 4 months on (now) >.<
Kailun, KT and I did a bit of shopping, and I got a nice leopard print umbrella. Lol. Desmond went to meet someone in the music industry in HK which links to his work here in SG.
We had some bo luo bun too. Haha. Eat eat eat non stop!
After that I set off myself to a monastry – Ching Chung Koon 青松觀. Hahaha everyone must feel that I’m trying to be funny. But anyways, just wanted to see something different in Hong Kong that not everyone in SG will go!
Unfortunately it was raining, but was still having loads of fun with the travelling all the way to New Territories! It’s a really really different place from the Hong Kong that everyone goes to.
their LRT station.
You have the liberty to whether you want to tap your card in and out at the station. But of course, most people actually do tap it. took me a while to figure out what I’m supposed to do.
Rainy Rainy Day.
Pretty nice actually.
Met a black cat after I felt eyes staring at me from a chair. Hahaha. Quite cute but i didn’t dare to touch it.
Slacked in my hotel room for a few hours, got bored watching Tv so ended up drawing eye liner, etc HAHAHA. Then met the rest for dinner after that.
Kai Lun‘s
Mine.
Oh we went to watch a HKCO ensemble performance that night. Free tickets because of Desmond’s connection! They were damnnn good! And I got to see the chinese version of a cello. Didn’t take pics, but just wow!
Then I brought them to eat BBQ food at 天后 (tin hau) and also at some famous dessert shop. hurhur. Very glad that I could still remember how to go lol.
Then we went to Stars Avenue. My 3rd time there >.< Don't go during summer. It's kinda warm but windy.
I didn’t take a pic of this before.
Quite late afterwards!
Day 4 (18 June)
Final day!! There’s a highlight for this HK trip, which was Lamma Island! I’d originally planned to go on the 2nd day, but as Desmond and Kailun wanted to go as well, so we changed it to another day. The me had a very huge struggle to whether I should stick to my plan or change it. In the end, I decided to change the day accordingly as it would be more fun with friends anyway!
I did not know that to go from one part of the island to another, you’ll have to HIKE. -.-! All the books and websites that I’d read about Lamma Island, did NOT mention it. oh gosh.
2 hours hike omg. We discovered that only after we walked along the path and it just got higher and higher.
Oh by the way, there’s a life changing tao huay along the way, that’s SUPER WORTH THE HIKE. The view at the top is also just amazing!
Lamma Island is a really quaint little place, and to be honest, it’ll be cool to live there and just chill after retirement. Hahaha.
To get there, you’ll have to take a ferry. Just ask around and you’ll be able to find the pier for Lamma Island. There are 2 ferry terminals at Lamma Island, just choose one and hike to the other one there.
Just chio
Some oily fried rice there
Oh ya, one quaint little thing there is that they don’t have full-sized vehicles there. Only small stuff like these, and little non-petrol cars I think? Even these vehicles aren’t allowed to be driven around during the day or something.
Oh and they have loads of dogs around:
Pit for dogs to poo
Life changing tou fu
Electricity Generators for the island i think
Beach
Now comes the difficult part after the beach -.-!
So high up. Do note that I was carrying my fieldpack -.-
Me
Desmond and Kailun. KT is camera shy
They have farm plots
The scary kamikaze caves. Apparently the Japanese used these caves to hide speedboats for the Kamikaze missions. >.<
At the other side
Some drink. Can’t remember but it was damn good
Basically after that, I had a bad headache and felt like puking so I stayed the rest of my last day in the hotel room -.-!
Kailun and Desmond delivered dinner to me. 🙂
Final meal of the trip with them!!
Basically I pretty much enjoyed this trip! Went to new places, discovered interesting stuff and got to know Desmond and his gf better!! Sometimes in life, it’s awesome to just do something random!! 🙂 Grab any opportunity that you have!