So, I’ve officially joined the gang of big 3-0s 2 days back. Many thoughts going through my mind as I crossed the line into this phase of my life.
The past couple of years hadn’t been easy. Shitty things happen when I least expected. People come and go. Lessons learned. I try again and again. And I see things/people more clearly now. I’ve grown to know better, what/who matters and what/who doesn’t. Well, how many 30 years will we have in our life right?
I’m blessed and thankful to have a small group of people who stood by me and love me for who I am, who trust and don’t judge me. (Of ‘cos it’ll be even better if a ‘boyfriend’ is added to this small group too haha..)
Here’s how fortunate I am during this ‘transition’ period. (Warning: pictures of gorgeous babes and hunks and prezzies coming up!)
Now now, kindly excuse me while I go make more wishes.
McCafe breakfast to start the day!! And I have to say, the service at the outlet opposite our hotel SUX BIG TIME. I swear I almost pull that bitch by the ponytail out of the counter in which she’s behind. No matter how busy you are, you have to maintain your professionalism and not fucking show attitude to your customers. Also, please brush up your fucked up English 1st before you rebuke me. I asked for what sandwich options you have. You refuted by replying, “NO SANDWICHES. ONLY HAVE CIABATTA.” Then brushed me aside to your colleague, and proceeded to bitch about me with your colleague IN FRONT OF ME.
Please do everyone else a favour by jumping off the building.
Right. Back to my breakfast!! At least it’s delicious enough to appease my anger a ‘lil. *tsk*
Went to check out this awesome concept cafe after breakfast! Had time to do so only on the last day before leaving Hong Kong!
Finding out the way to walk (in style) using Google Maps!
I had to eat this food item before leaving Hong Kong!!!!! Favorite egg tart of all time…………..
TAI CHEONG BAKERY!!!!!!
Address: 35 Lyndhurst Terrace, Central
Station: Central (Exit D2)
Hours: Daily 730am – 9pm
Contact: (852) 2544-3475
FAVORITE TRADITIONAL EGG TART!!!!!!!
While on the way to explore this street which I like alot!!
GOUGH STREET was where I wanted to go!
Interesting shops along the way!
Yays! Reached GOUGH STREET!
Many niche shops along this street!
1st stop: WOAW Store (Lifestyle concept store stocking exclusive merchandise and a diverse product range for men, women and children.)
Address: No. 11 Gough Street, Central
Station: Sheung Wan (Exit A2)
Hours: Mon-Sat 1130am – 930pm / Sun 12pm – 7pm
Contact: (852) 2253-1313
2nd stop: HOMELESS (Lifestyle concept store selling niche homeware products as well as providing lotsa gift ideas.)
Address: 28-29 Gough Street, Central
Station: Sheung Wan (Exit A2)
Hours: Mon-Sat 1130am – 930pm / Sun 12pm – 6pm
Contact: (852) 2581-1880
Absorbing in more of this land before leaving on a jet plane. Gonna miss this place even though I’d been here couple of times!
Hello, cutie!!
And it’s time to go to the airport!!
Guess what? My luggage was overweight by 8.5kg………………. And I had to pay HKD1500 for it. Well, guess United Air’s rate was considered fairly cheap as compared to other airlines’ (judging by per kg). Bought too much stuff!!
Oh wells, still needed to eat dinner. My ultimate comfort food to the rescue! TSUI WAH!!!!!!!
Had some time to kill before boarding!
Yes. I mean, NOOOOO………… Can’t I stay longer???
Ok. Some food to distract myself.
Shall end this finale with shots of a cutie whom I saw on the MTR in Hong Kong!! (Disclaimer: shots taken by my friend, not me coz I didn’t have the guts to do it hahaha…….)
Till next time!!!!! CHEERS!!!!!! *juggles luggages*
Today on our itinerary, we went to familiar grounds!
Changing trains at Central station in order to get there.
Yes.
Just had to do the tourist-sy thingy of taking pictures of the station. And of coz posing with it. *hashtag ootd wiwt central hk* While waiting for our friend to reach, couldn’t resist shopping at Sogo supermart at Causeway Bay!
Colorsss……. Another round of stuff for friends and family back home.
Too cute! Finally lunch time!!! *wide grinz*
Itacho Sushi at Causeway Bay…
There were more sushi and other dishes which we ordered but ate too fast so only managed to capture these…
Prices were around the same as compared to Singapore’s. Of coz as usual in order to burn off calories after a hearty meal…
SHOPPING TIME!!!!!!!
Hong Kong is such a sinful place when it comes to eating and shopping my gosh…….
So many nice stuff which caught my eyes and tempted me to get them……. >.<”
Spent the whole afternoon in just Causeway Bay alone.
Chocoolate / I.T / i.t / some pop-up shop that sells really cool stuff but I forgot the name / a mall that resembles our Far East Plaza / etc etc
Too busy shopping so didn’t take pictures along the way.
Will show some of my purchases towards the end of this post!!
Before we realised, evening crept in and it’s dinner time!!!!!
Decided to revisit Mido Cafe after so long.
I remembered I really like the 60s feel of this Hong Kong cafe when I first tried it couple of years back.
Plus the food was very affordable and came in big portions.
Address: 63 Temple Street, Kowloon
Station: Yau Ma Tei (Exit C)
Hours: Daily 830am – 10pm
Contact: (852) 2384-6402 Truth be told, I was a ‘lil disappointed this time round.
Their prices increased, yet food standard dropped.
Previously I really enjoyed just a simple Egg & Luncheon Meat Fried Rice coz they cooked it well.
This time though, it was just so-so.
Hence, this. Actually, just an excuse to let me play with my food.
No meal’s completed without desserts!!
So even though it’s been raining the whole day, we simply had to comb Temple Street for some Chinese desserts.
And found this small dessert shop with I didn’t register its name. Hot desserts on a cooling night are ever-so welcoming.
It kind of made up for the slight disappointment I’d with Mido Cafe.
Pardon me looking as if I was being forced to smile.
Blame it on the wet weather…….
(It’s ok if you are indoors. Not ok when you are outside carrying lotsa barang-barang and still need to hold a brolly.
Ok enough of whinning.) Finally back to the hotel!!!
Photo flood of what I bought!!! (Immediately brightened up my mood.)
Closer look of the lovely snacks from Sogo supermart! At the same time chomping on my Nameko snack!
Each box came with a temporary tattoo thingy!
Too cute…………. Love.
Love.
Love. Love all my purchases!!! *juggles snacks*
Episode 6 will be out real soon!! Do stay tuned!! ^_^
4th day of my Hong Kong trip!!!
Rise and shine!!!
Dropped by a friend’s house first before going for lunch together.
Love the door knob! There happened to be an outlet of Tim Ho Wan near his house, so there we shall go for lunch.
Finally I’d the chance to try it out and see what all the hype is haha…
Address: 2-8 Wharf Road, Seaview Building, G/F, Shop B, C & D, North Point
Station: Fortress Hill (Exit A)
Hours: Daily 10am – 930pm
Contact: (852) 2979-5608 While waiting for our table….
Was kinda crowded on that day!!! Yays we got our table after a short wait!!
Hungryyy………. Verdict:
The Char Siew bun is really yumsss!! (That coming from me who’s not a fan of meat haha..)
I really like the Glutinous Rice in Lotus Leaf, as well as the Carrot Cake.
Other than these, the rest were normal nothing exceptionally mind-blowing.
After filling our tummies, we needed to shed off some calories.
So……
SHOPPING TIME!!!
Saw this at the side of the road while walking to the MTR station. *shudders* At this multi-label shop called ‘another’ at Tsim Sha Tsui.
Who doesn’t love sales??? More shopping!! Time passes so fast when you are having fun.
Before we know it, it’s time for dinner!!!
We decided on this Italian restaurant called Lupa.
Address: 31 Queen’s Road Central, LHT Tower, 3/F, Central
Station: Central (Exit )
Hours: Mon-Sat 12pm – 3pm; 6pm – 11pm / Sun 12pm – 11pm
Contact: (852) 2796-6500 Food was rather good coupled with organic white wine.
I really like the ambience of the restaurant too!
So much so that I think we stayed for almost 3 hours there!
And a meal’s not complete without any desserts!!
Finger-licking good………. Tired from all the walking throughout the whole day, hence the day ended without any routine trip to 7-11…
Love all the stuff I bought during the day!
Episode 5 will be out soon, so do stay tuned for it!!! ^_^
Rise & shine for Day 2 of Ving’s Hong Kong trip!!
(Check out Part 1 of the trip here.)
Initially we wanted to check out this Japanese restaurant called Nan Tei (that’s near our hotel) for lunch, but they were about to close for the afternoon by the time we got there.
So we wandered around the area that’s filled with restaurants, and stumbled upon this hidden gem called Cenacolo.
Address: 45-53 Graham Street, G/F, Shop F&H, Central
Station : Central (Exit D1/D2)
Contact: (852) 2525-2430
Their 3-course set lunches were very worth it and yummy-licious!!
For HKD108+ (approximately S$18+), you get a soup or salad + main course + dessert.
This is by far one of the most lip-smacking white wine based pastas I’ve ever tasted in my life. I’m missing this sticky date pudding dessert too!! Can you spot Ving?? After a satisfying lunch, we proceeded to Horizon Plaza for some outlet shopping.
It is a converted warehouse with about 150 shops selling all sorts of stuff spanning 28 floors. Few of the bigger retailers are eg. Lane Crawford, Joyce, Max Mara, and I.T, amidst many other branded labels’ outlet shops.
So for those who would like to get pieces of your favorite branded label(s) at up to 70-80% off, this is the place you should come when you visit Hong Kong!!
It was rather out of the way, hence we grabbed a taxi down from Central (journey took about 30mins for HKD100).
Alternatively, you can also take Bus 90 from Exchange Square Bus Station in Central to Ap Lei Chau Estate Bus Terminus, whereby from there you can take the free Horizon Plaza Shuttle Bus to the building.
Address: 2 Lee Wing Street, Ap Lei Chau, Aberdeen
We couldn’t take pictures when in the store, but here’s one which we secretly took.
Ving really, really, really fancies this pair of heels by Giuseppe Zanotti!!!
But they are still wayyy over my budget even after discount. =( While waiting for a taxi to Causeway Bay, Ving had a really bad experience with some unreasonable human beings.
There was a big group of Caucasians + couple of Hongkongers in front of us in the taxi queue. Horizon Plaza’s kinda out of the way, hence not many taxis came into the area. Not long after, this big group went out of the queue to an area further down in order to see if they can get any taxis that were coming in. Since we were behind them, naturally we became the first in line after they left. Finally a taxi came in which the passenger on board alighted, so we stepped forward to ask the taxi driver if he was ok to drive us to Causeway Bay area. He said no, and just sped off.
Since we didn’t manage to get it, naturally we would step back into the queue at the first spot where we initially were. To our surprise, there were 2 Caucasian males and a Hong Kong lady at our spot. They were part of the big group that had left the queue earlier on, and insisted for us to queue behind them.
“We were here earlier, and have already waited for 40 minutes for the taxis. You should join the queue from the back”, they shouted at us.
WOW… They didn’t even flinch when saying such unreasonable words.
We didn’t want to argue with them, so we just walked quite a distance out onto the main road and hopped onto a bus that goes to Causeway Bay.
Surprisingly, it was a rather short bus ride and it took us straight to the heart of Causeway Bay. Just nice since we planned to go over to Times Square for some shopping as well as dinner.
While waiting for our table after taking a queue number, we went to shop around the restaurant area. I ended up getting a collaboration t-shirt with Lego for my younger brother from Aape by Bathing Ape shop.
Address: 1 Matheson Street, Times Square, B2/F, Shop B225, Causeway Bay
Station : Causeway Bay (Exit A)
Contact: (852) 2146-7801
Details : Collection of A Bathing Ape’s collaborations with other labels
Dinner time at Sen-Ryo! It is a Japanese sushi bar that is rather similar to Itacho Sushi.
They do sushi well too! *slurps*
Address: 1 Matheson Street, Times Square, B2/F, Shop B222, Causeway Bay
Station : Causeway Bay (Exit A)
Hours : Mon-Fri 1130am – 1030pm / Sat-Sun 1130am – 11pm
Contact: (852) 2506-9366
After dinner, we went back to the hotel to put down our shopping buys and freshen up a ‘lil, before heading out again to check out Lan Kwai Fong’s nightlife.
Here’s what Ving bought for the day!
— Black Leather Loafers by Mercibeaucoup
— Skull Cushion by Mastermind
— Aape by Bathing Ape x Lego T-shirt Lan Kwai Fong on a Saturday night. Wearing our new shoes! Supper time at Tsui Wah Hong Kong Cafe!
Still one of my favorite Hong Kong cafes to date!
Address: 15-19 Wellington Street, Central
Station : Central (Exit D2)
Hours : 24hrs
Contact: (852) 2525-6338 We couldn’t resist getting more stuff from 7-11 after supper! Do come back here on next Monday for Part 3 of Ving’s Hong Kong trip! ^_^
