The above set meal cost 20HKD. Its quite filling but definitely not tasty. I thought they could do better with the bread and the eggs. One thing I realised, the tea there is not made with condensed milk like in Singapore...I think they used powdered milk ...I hate powdered milk...I took a sip and thats it.After breakfast, we decided to pay Huang Da Xian a visit..heard he is really popular with the hong kong people..Just look at the crowd...
Even the drizzle didnt stop them from paying their respects. Well, it didnt stop me either..I mean since I was already there, might as well...anyway I already bought a pack of joss sticks from a old po po on the way and I seriously not tending to walk around with that for the rest of the day. After disposing off all my joss sticks, I got out of the temple like I just survived a volcanic eruption. All the ashes was just unbelieveable...
Before our trip to Macau..the highlight of the day, we went into this "Tung Sui' - Desserts restaurant...at Tsim Sha Tsui...and I got to eat my favorite peanut paste or watever you call it...
Here its made of walnut and gingko nuts..simply delicious! And its cheap!
After a gruelling 1 hr ferry ride to Macau, which I slept through, I was super sianzzz to see this at the custom...Reminded me of my ill fated trip to JB months ago where I spent 2 hrs queuing at the custom to get my passport chopped. Its a monday and there were still so many people going to Macau...whats wrong with these people?! Dont you have to work!? Gambling is not good you know?
Luckily, the guys chopping the passports are much more efficient than our neighbours. We managed to get through in about 45 mins. I actually wanted to go to Sands Casino...it looked so posh...but we hopped into the shuttle bus that took us to Wynn Casino instead.
Anyhow, it didnt really matter, after I donated 50 HKD to the jackpot machine in less than 5 mins, I decided gambling is really not good. So I took off with Kwong and Gary to go shopping and sight seeing instead.
I vaguely remember this casino from a hong kong drama called "Sheng Zhe Wei Wang"....the gambling drama before our very own version of "The unbeatables"...It was the icon of Macau then..but now its been overshadowed by the newer and bigger casinos...how sad..
Even the drizzle didnt stop them from paying their respects. Well, it didnt stop me either..I mean since I was already there, might as well...anyway I already bought a pack of joss sticks from a old po po on the way and I seriously not tending to walk around with that for the rest of the day. After disposing off all my joss sticks, I got out of the temple like I just survived a volcanic eruption. All the ashes was just unbelieveable...
Before our trip to Macau..the highlight of the day, we went into this "Tung Sui' - Desserts restaurant...at Tsim Sha Tsui...and I got to eat my favorite peanut paste or watever you call it...Here its made of walnut and gingko nuts..simply delicious! And its cheap!
After a gruelling 1 hr ferry ride to Macau, which I slept through, I was super sianzzz to see this at the custom...Reminded me of my ill fated trip to JB months ago where I spent 2 hrs queuing at the custom to get my passport chopped. Its a monday and there were still so many people going to Macau...whats wrong with these people?! Dont you have to work!? Gambling is not good you know?
Luckily, the guys chopping the passports are much more efficient than our neighbours. We managed to get through in about 45 mins. I actually wanted to go to Sands Casino...it looked so posh...but we hopped into the shuttle bus that took us to Wynn Casino instead.
Anyhow, it didnt really matter, after I donated 50 HKD to the jackpot machine in less than 5 mins, I decided gambling is really not good. So I took off with Kwong and Gary to go shopping and sight seeing instead.
I vaguely remember this casino from a hong kong drama called "Sheng Zhe Wei Wang"....the gambling drama before our very own version of "The unbeatables"...It was the icon of Macau then..but now its been overshadowed by the newer and bigger casinos...how sad..We walked for quite some time, shopping along the way before we reached the other iconic place of Macau...the St Paul's Ruins....aka Da San Ba...Big 38? I seriously have no idea how St Paul's Ruins translate into Big 38...but what the heck, its beautiful.
Its really interesting to see a huge contrast in the buildings of Macau. On one side, you get the tall, lavish casinoes. on the other side you get all the old buildings that looked like they might collapse any moment.
Next stop, Macau Tower, the place where I shall conquer my fear of heights....erm...not really.
It was really quite scary standing on top of this piece of glass that allowed you see through from 61 floors. You know its not going to crack but it still scares the shit out of you...okay maybe just me. 
It really was much scarier than it looked in this picture.
Isnt it beautiful up there....
The Macau tower, truly amazing...
Its really interesting to see a huge contrast in the buildings of Macau. On one side, you get the tall, lavish casinoes. on the other side you get all the old buildings that looked like they might collapse any moment. Next stop, Macau Tower, the place where I shall conquer my fear of heights....erm...not really.
It was really quite scary standing on top of this piece of glass that allowed you see through from 61 floors. You know its not going to crack but it still scares the shit out of you...okay maybe just me. It really was much scarier than it looked in this picture.Isnt it beautiful up there....
The Macau tower, truly amazing...Our round 2 for the day...shopping at Mongkok...Ladies street...
Even at 11pm the street was bustling with life...so different from our Orchard Road..
We had our supper at another dessert stall called "Hui Lau Shan"...I ordered the thing up there that looked like red bean soup, but its not. Its nice but the carrot cake was even better! Thats my only choice as the rest of the desserts all had mango in them...and I dont eat mango. Well, the rest ordered the mango set so I get to snap a picture.
Before we left, we discovered a place selling BBQ stuff and god it tasted so good...The octopus I was eating was so Q and delicious...what a way to end the day..yum yum..
We had our supper at another dessert stall called "Hui Lau Shan"...I ordered the thing up there that looked like red bean soup, but its not. Its nice but the carrot cake was even better! Thats my only choice as the rest of the desserts all had mango in them...and I dont eat mango. Well, the rest ordered the mango set so I get to snap a picture.
Before we left, we discovered a place selling BBQ stuff and god it tasted so good...The octopus I was eating was so Q and delicious...what a way to end the day..yum yum..
1 comment:
Great shot of Mongkok(?)/ Ladies street(?) vincent!
HongKong looks so 3-dimensional with all its neon-glittering cantilevering billboards and the ppl seemed quite fashionable.
Am guessing "Da San Ba" is in cantonese ...umm "great saint...paul"?
Macau seems more interesting a "cultural-weave" with its juxtapositioning of colonial rule, hongkong-modernity and gambling, unless it is much like Las Vegas, where life only "truly exists" inside the casinos/ gambling complexes.
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