Hong Kong June 2015 - Day 4

Woke up and as usual, it's raining. On our food itinerary we are having breakfast at a famous dim sum store named Dim Dim Sum. Just Google it and you can see how famous it is. Even Anthony Bourdain eat there when he went to Hong Kong!

Haha.. Same, the place is just a few minutes walking distance from our hotel, so we braved the rain and headed out for breakfast. Funny how we have food and restaurants within the hotel but nooo.. we rather walk in the rain to go find food. When we got there it was not opened! WTF? Did I screw up and came at their off day?

Thankfully it's just that they open at 10am and we were 15mins early. So we ended up being the 1st customers there! Hey hey! The food turned out to be pretty good.

The mini polo buns have REAL chunks of polo (菠萝 - means pineapple btw) in it!

Crispy and fluffy on the outside, sweet and delicious on the inside! I also like their 金沙肥豬仔 Piggy Custard Buns which is the 流沙包 that's quite popular in Singapore too.

I've never tried that before so for my 1st experience, I thought it tasted pretty good. Cobby and the kids don't like the salty gritty taste, so I practically ate all three buns. The carrot cake and steamed chicken feet were also quite good, the rest, not very impressive leh.

Maybe we didn't order the right dishes. After the late breakfast we headed back to the hotel and chill out. Jay took a afternoon nap while Jo does some revision. I know, I just want her to brain working during the holidays.. When Jay woke up from his nap we headed out to Causeway Bay. We want to eat at a food centre tonight and there's one near there, so we planned to jalan jalan abit there before going for dinner. Finally it stopped raining and we decided to go hang out inside a shopping centre. -_- Great planning.

Causeway Bay is kind of like Orchard Road? With many shopping centres big and small all around. We never go there cause we were not shopping people. Whenever I go Hong Kong I rather shop at the streets. But I guess it's nice to hang out inside air conditioned buildings, window shopping and having drinks and snacks at cafes. We even bought loads of stuff from 奇華 for colleagues and family. I love this new gift set!

It's got a few pieces each of their popular items from the store in the gift pack! Awesome!

Just walking around blindly in one of the biggest shopping centres there, Hysan Place and we hit the jackpot! There was a bookstore, eslite, that took up 3 storeys! I could so see myself hanging out there on weekends if I live in Hong Kong! Bought myself a bread maker machine recipe book. Happy :) When we left it was getting dark and all the billboard lights were on. Plus it was after office hours so there were hoards of people everywhere! All the sights and sounds, I felt like my brain was bombarded with stimulus everywhere!



The Bowrington Road Market and Cooked Food Centre was just walking distance away from the shopping area and we got to see the transition from fancy shopping centres to local sights such as the evening wet markets and small neighborhood shops.

I really like that about Hong Kong. The hawker stalls in the food centres are actually dai pai dong 大牌当, but they have been moved into air conditioned food centres like these all over Hong Kong for the sake of hygiene and also comfort. Most people dining there are locals and the atmosphere is very relaxed but loud.

Staff are the usual no bullshit type of service and the food is your typical tze char cantonese cuisine. Not our best meal, but I do like their 咕噜肉 (Cantonese Style Sweet And Sour Pork). Their fish is strangely tough. Over cooked? Maybe. You win some you lose some.

After dinner we headed back to the hotel. I was torn. I wanted to keep walking but worried that it's getting pass the kids's bedtime. Cobby convinced me that we should just go for it and stop worrying about bedtime. So we headed to my favourite shopping strip, 花园街 Garden Street! Strangely, the place is very sparse, very quiet. Not the usual bustling shopping strip I remember it to be? We didn't get much, just some cute t-shirts for the kids and a gorgeous handphone cover for my phone! So far every nice cover I see were for iPhone 6, so I was really happy to finally found a cover for my Samsung Note 3!

Still kicking myself abit for not going out to Ocean Park since the weather is so nice today, but we'll be doing that tomorrow, so hopefully the weather would hold up.

Hong Kong June 2015 - Day 3

We went to Disneyland yesterday, so today we thought we should take it easy and do something more relaxing. I planned to go for the Ngong Ping 360, which is a long cable car ride to the giant Buddha. But this was the weather when we woke up.

What the heck man, is this rain ever going to stop?? The cable car ride would be awesome, but after that? Somehow I wasn't too thrilled about walking up a billion steps in the rain to see the giant Buddha. If it's just 2 adults, maybe. But to drag 2 kids along? Agrh.. no thanks. So we will be going to The Peak today instead.

There's a MacDonald's right across our hotel so breakfast is settled! I ALWAYS make an effort to eat MacDonald's breakfast whenever I come Hong Kong.

Their sausage egg mcmuffin with cheese is made from pork instead of turkey, and it is so much more delicious loh!! After breakfast we went back to our hotel and enjoyed the comforts of the room. Many people like to spend as much time outside as they can while they are overseas. Going out is fun, but chilling out in the hotel room can be awesome too! Just relaxing in bed, watch tv, surf web is our idea of a holiday too! So we just hung out in the room until it was time to go for lunch, and we have plans!

We travelled all the way out of town to Yuen Long to eat Cobby's favourite BEEF NOODLES!!

This is another stop we never miss whenever we come to HK. (spot Jayden napping in his stroller)

Best beef noodles ever! We ordered the brisket this time round and it was awesome.. The meat was tender and the soup divine.. You soak the crispy fish skin in the soup before you eat it. So good!

And my favourite, 炸大肠, which is fried big intestines.. yums..

After lunch we made our way to The Peak. We've can't remember if we've even been there before during the day, so we thought it would be nice to check it out. You can go to The Peak via the boring MTR and taxi, or take a bus. But we're tourists! Let's go via the most inconvenient and yet spectacular way, The Star Ferry.

I always enjoyed taking the ferry across the sea. It's relaxing and picturesque, reminds me that I'm on holiday. :)

It was pretty gloomy the weather, and it started to drizzle just as we arrived at the tram station. There were giant posters of Madame Tussauds there and we thought, why not? It's raining anyway. So we bought the tickets and up the mountain we went!

It was already 4pm+ when we got up, so we decided to have some tea break 1st. Lucky us we got a seat next to the window! Nice view!

Madame Tussauds was more fun than we expected! There were figures of those we've seen before, but there were also many new ones! We had alot of fun running about, taking photos with characters that we like. We took SO MANY photos, here are just some of them!

We had a really fun time, but it was quite crowded. Some tourists were very noisy and irritating. One even pushed me even when I was carrying Jayden! How dare you! I shouted loudly at him, "EH, WHY ARE YOU PUSHING ME??" 没死过.. and he immediately backed off, apologizing. But other than that, we had alot of fun. :)

We wanted to have dinner at one of the restaurants at The Peak, but it was still early when we got out. So we decided to go down the mountain instead and have dinner at one of the recommended restaurants. Sigh~ It turned out to be a bad idea. The food was mediocre and boring. What a disappointing dinner. Guess you can't trust everything they say online!

It was getting late, so I thought we could just take a cab back to the hotel. Turns out that taxis on the Hong Kong side don't know the way in Kowloon, so we ended up taking the MTR back. Thankfully it was 3 stops! It was already around 9.30pm by the time we got back. Funny how we planned to have a relaxing day but ended up going to so many places!

I'm sure if the kiddos weren't around we could do even more. But I'm glad they were there and I can't wait to see what else we can do tomorrow.

Hong Kong June 2015 - Day 2

Oh my god I wish I could just sleep in.. But today is an exciting day because today we go to Hong Kong Disneyland! This is how I envisioned my day!

Nope.

It was grey and gloomy and raining when we woke up. But we decided to carry on with our itinerary. We bought umbrellas last night, so nothing was going to stop us now! But 1st, breakfast! I've been to Hong Kong umpteen times and we're almost half a local there. So it seemed unnecessary then to do any research regarding where to eat. This time round I was determined to enjoy myself like a tourist! So I did my homework and listed down all the must-eat in Hong Kong. One of the most popular must eat place is Australian Dairy Co.

It's just a few minutes walk from our hotel, which reemphasized how awesome our hotel was. :)

Not surprisingly, there was already a queue outside the restaurant. But thankfully we persisted and got a seat within 10mins! Only had time for one selfie!

Like any char chan teng, it was loud and bustling. But it was amazing how efficient the place was. The food arrived within another 5mins of ordering!

The scrambled eggs were very fluffy and delicious, but our hands-down favourite was their French Toast. How good? After trying mine, Cobby couldn't resist and ordered another one for himself! YUM!!!

But we really don't know how to appreciate their drinks. They like to load it with too much milk. Bleh~ With our bodies all fueled up we were ready to go! We took the usual MTR route and soon we were on the Mickey Mouse Train to Disneyland.

Reality of travelling with toddlers. :P

I remembered taking a photo with Jolie a few years ago, so I asked Cobby to take one for us again. Look how much we've changed!

Couldn't resist taking pictures of the fountain.

We're here!

When we got in we saw Mickey and Minnie at Main Street! I couldn't pass taking photo with the ambassadors of Disneyland, so I asked Cobby to queue up while I watch Jayden. Jayden and I took some selfies while waiting.

We queued for almost 1 hour, but it was worth it. :)

The next few hours went by in a blur.

Jay fell asleep after lunch, so Cobby and I took turns. One would go on rides with Jolie while the other stay in the comforts of the air conditioned gift shops and watch Jayden sleep. I wished Jayden could join us for more rides, but I guess it can't be helped.



It rained sporadically while we were there but we were undaunted! Most rides were sheltered or indoors anyway.

We took a few more rides later but we didn't take much pictures. I guess we were there so many times that we just want to enjoy ourselves instead of taking pictures.

Besides, it was so hot and humid that many times we just have no mood to smile and pose for the camera. By late afternoon we can tell by the looks of the kids that they have reached their limits. The heat and the exhaustion had taken a toll on them and we think it was time to call it a day. After shopping for some gifts, we left Disneyland for dinner. BYE~!

We needed air conditioning! So for dinner we headed to Olympian City. If you like shopping and dining in a huge shopping centre like in Singapore, this is a place for you! We were craving for Italian pizza and pasta, (pizza, pizza, pizza!) so we chose Bene Pizza + Pasta. Tasted pretty good, Jolie even dropped her loose tooth while chomping on her pizza! I think it grossed out the diners at the next table, but we were just so happy for her. :D We even bought snacks and fresh fruit in the supermarket there. Perfect!

By the time we got back to the hotel it was already quite late. We were tired but we had so much fun too. Hopefully the next time we visit Disneyland we can spend more time there. :)