Hong Kong Hong Kong Day 4 - Giant Buddha and Last Minute Shopping

Day 4 in HK. Realised my Goddess is rather reluctant to let me complete her adventures in HK as this will mark the end of her fun in HK but remind her of the real life she must face up to for some time now before she goes for her next adventure.

How can one go to HK but not eat their dim sums?

After breakfast, a trip to Lantau Island to visit the Giant Buddha.

Ngong Ping 360 Cable Car

Ngong Ping Village

Wu Gui Master at Po Lin Monastery

Po Lin Monastery

The road to enlightenment

The Giant Buddha

View from where the Giant Buddha is situated

Deities praying to the Buddha

The last day is a really rushed day for they have not done much shopping the past few days. As such, from 2pm to 4pm, their mission now is to go to the warehouse centre and back to 'Ugly' Centre to shop!

Amazing Race Take 1

Amazing Race Take 2

For those who didn't catch it, our next task is to go to Ugly Centre to get something beautiful.

Unfortunately for my Goddess, there were 2 recommended warehouses at Lai Chi Kok to visit where they sell clothes at really cheap price, but they were closed on Sundays! Luckily for them though, the Adidas outlet is still opened, and both my Goddess and the Horny Devil managed to get several really good bargains there!

Next stop: Arglye Centre

At Arglye, there is this really popular eatery selling Jap-like cold noodles. You can select the food that you want to go with your noodle.

See how horrible the crowd is on Sunday!

There is another popular eatery called Happy Lemon where they sell Lemon drinks with jelly, pudding etc.

Yummy drink!

After much squeezing with the horrendous crowd, my Goddess managed to buy some cardigans and belt. But her shopping finds were quite disappointing! There were just too little time to squeeze through the huge mall and horrendous crowd. They should have shopped on the first day and visit the Orchard Road on their last.

It was quite a mad rush back to the hotel, really Amazing Race style. Luckily for my Goddess and the Horny Devil, they have been through almost any kind of travelling situations in the States, and they managed to go through the race in a breeze.

Dinner at the Airport after checking in and before boarding their flight. Look at the layers of fats (in yellow) on the chicken.

Their airplane

Reluctant to go back and face up to reality

Stoopid Horny Devil always like to do the opposite of what's asked of him

Back in Singapore at 12 plus am!

Look at their bags of bargain

Hero, my friend likes his souvenir from Ocean Park

Hong Kong Hong Kong Day 3 - Wang Da Xian & Macau

Day 3 in HK and my Goddess and friends are back at another 茶餐厅 for breakfast!

HK cafes has a peculiar practice of giving to their patrons each a cup of tea and utensils once they stepped in, even before they ordered. My Goddess and her friends thought how nice their service was, to offer drinks to their customers to quench their thirst. They have been drinking the tea for the past few days in HK, only until...

They saw the above sight at another table, and more tables around them. Only did they realise the tea was not meant for drinking but the cleansing of utensils!

My Goddess' friend even finished half of the cup! The one with full cup on the left belongs to my Goddess

After breakfast, they headed to the famous 王大仙 temple.

An alley of fortune tellers

After which, they headed to purchase tickets to get to Macau. Only then did my Goddess learned that Macau is not part of Hong Kong! You actually have to go through the customs to get from Hong Kong to Macau.

On 'bored' the ferry

Macau Ferry Terminal

Though Macau is not big, the hotels and tourists attractions - Ruins of St Paul's are not close to each other, unlike the Vegas strip. To save more taxi fare, they boarded the free shuttle service from the terminal to Sands hotel, somewhere closer to the St Paul's ruins. No prizes for guessing why the shuttle buses are all free.

And finally, the scenic St Paul's ruins. The place is really magnificent, especially that the whole church was burnt down except for the front piece of wall.

Lion Dance session at the bottom of the stairs

Fooling around (as usual)

And they had a taste of the ever famous Portuguese Egg Tart! My Goddess swear they are so delicious that when you take the egg tarts in Singapore, those in Singapore taste like sh*t.

And they tried the famous 鸡排包 too.

Though it looks super huge and delicious, it's rather nice at first bite, but is a tad too salty and pepperish though and it gets a little fattening as you eat through the rest of the bun. Maybe they can look into adding fresh and crunch lettuce. I think it'd have made it more popular.

A popular snacks place where they sell almond biscuits, 老婆饼, 老公饼, cuttlefish, pork floss crepes and bak gua. The food there is really yummy! This is why the place is so pack.

It must have been a weekend, the streets below St Paul's was so crowded with people. Really wonder if there are really so many tourists in Hong Kong and Macau.

A packed and bustling street

It was already four plus by the time they were done with St Paul's, and they have yet to take lunch yet! So they went in search for the famous Wanton Mee along the popular street. But too bad the shop there was under renovation. And they had to walk a long way in search of the other branch outlet. Luckily my Goddess didn't wear the boots she bought.

The QQ mee

And a very strange meat/fish ball that had a strong clove taste

This place was so old that their soy milk was in the traditional glass bottle which we used to have for Coca-cola years ago. They also served Fanta brand Grape and Orange soda which they call orange juice and don't know what juice which they don't term as grape, blueberry, blackberry, or for that matter any kind of berry.

On their way back to the crowded street to do some shopping at Sasa and Bonjour - their Sasa is like very cheap there, they passed a Love Alley which is really beautiful and romantic. No wonder they call it the Love Alley.

Realised each shop has a tablet in front of their door

The sky gets dark quite early, at 6 plus it was already like night time. And finally they headed down to one of the casinos. A pity that the hotels are not closed by each other, and that they do not have shows like those in Vegas. Heard there's only the musical fountain and that's all. They went to Venetian.

Nice decor, but not as impressive as the Caesar Hotel in Vegas. Maybe 'cos they haven't wondered to the other part of the hotel yet.

At about 10pm, after trying their first time at gambling, my Goddess and friends went to catch the last few ferries back to Hong Kong.

They wanted to have some dessert at the famous dessert place, The Sweet Dynasty. Fortunately the place was still opened at 12plus am when they reached. But unfortunately they were closing and so they can't have the dessert there to enjoy the atmosphere and freshly made dessert straight out from the kitchen, but to dapao back.

Green Bean Seaweed Soup

When my Goddess got back, the bed was made nicely, and even the soft toys were placed nicely on one side of the bed! Ain't the hotel staff sweet?