HK Trip May 07 - Day 4

Day 4! Here's a view of the butcher near our hotel.



We decided to go for dim sum for breakfast. We asked around and the Maxim's bakery assistant recommended us the Maxim's Restaurant at the Grand Place Shopping Centre (at Mongkok), Level 8.



This looked expensive but the prices are actually quite alright. We spent about SGD 17 per person. I think each 'long' is about SGD 3. You can go between 2-5pm though, I heard from others that the dim sum are half-price during that time of the day, but you should check out first. Here's what we ate:

Shrimp Dumplings



Glutinous Rice in Lotus Leaf





Siew Mai



Porridge!





Salad Prawns





Carrot Cake



Chicken Feet anyone?



Mango Pudding!



Later, we took the hotel shuttle bus to TST, looked around the museums and this is Peninsula Hotel. I think they like to use this as a backdrop in HK mafia boss kind of movies? Look familiar?



At the Avenue of Stars



Does this look like from the transformers?



Clock Tower



View across the Harbour of Hongkong Island.



We decided to take the Star Ferry across to Central (Zhong Huan) on Hongkong Island from TST. It only costed us HKD 2.20! Cheaper than the MTR?


On board the Star Ferry



View from the Star Ferry



The Star Ferry





We got lost for a while when we reached central, ended up in the upmarket IFC mall for a while.

After much sign language with half-baked cantonese and chinese, we finally were on the correct direction to the Mid-Levels Escalators. Here's a pic of the electric tram I was talking about.



On the Mid-Levels escalators, which are a series of escalators to transport people from the ground level to their homes higher up in the Mid Levels. Quite amazing.



It's quite long



and it's also quite steep on Hongkong Island.



A Market Place



We explored a little around Hollywood Road, there are some antique shops there. And Yupin found this further down, a eatery with about 60 years of history and foodie reviews by Bryan Wong!



Yupin's lunch: Pork Chop Rice!



A hungry cat beneath our table



Mine: Tomato Soup Macaroni with Pork Chop



In the evening, we went back to the Avenue of Stars. There's the Symphony of Lights show at 8pm every night. Here's the Clock Tower in the evening.



View of the harbour as the sky gradually darkened.





This is part of the Symphony of Lights show, which has music and laser lights shining from the buildings. There's also some introduction about the buildings that you see. Quite interesting! This i feel is quite successful and it made me feel that Singapore has a lot to catch up with.







Back to Mongkok, for more shopping! And here's the cold noodles yiting told me about. YOu can order a mixture of packets of ingredients, each HKD $2.50, with a minimum order of HKD$10. Very nice, but very salty. You can find this at the shopping building adjoining Argyle Centre.



And Hui Lau Shan to end the day! I think we drank this almost every night on our way back to the hotel. On the left, mango, coconut juice with herbal jelly and on the right, mango, coconut juice with aloe vera jelly. One drink cost about HKD 15, but two drinks cost about HKD$20. So..buy together and save money!