Hong Kong Trip Day 1

I just came back from Hong Kong. It was a treat from hubby to reward me for giving birth to Ace. He says it is tough to give birth… actually, I think it is not easier for him to work so hard for the family and to take care of Queen Angel before, during and after birth of Ace. Now lagi must take care of Prince Ace too ;)

But who would say no to a trip right? Especially when I have not been to Hong Kong before. I just wanted to go there and take a a look and experience ‘买东西，吃东西，买东西，吃东西…” just like the tour HK ad…

And GOSH! I have never walked so much in a long long time…

Well, on the early morning of 16 Sept, we woke up and sent Ace to my mum’s place and then made our way to the air port.

Upon arrival, we started to relax at Mac Donalds and go into holiday mood. The plane ride was ok, we watched The Longest Yard on board and had a so so breakfast.. and then by around 2 pm, we were at Langham Hotel in HK, Mongkok (where we were to spend the next two nights)..



As the rooms were not ready, we decided to have a meal cos we were so hungry. I went to the concierge and asked about vegeterian restaurants nearby. Heng ah! There is one called M Garden nearby. I then went to hotel toilet to pump milk… gee, the people must be wondering what’s the noise and wat am I doing inside my cubicle.. hahah..

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After milk pumping, we walked there for dim sum. HK on a Friday afternoon did not seem as crowded.. but indoors, there were a lot of taitais having dim sum tea.

We found the place with not much difficulty and boy, was it yummy! The head waiter was so amazed by Singapore and kept talking to us about how nice Singapore is when he hasn’t even visited Singapore before.

After dim sum, we went back to hotel, pumped some more milk, had a short nap (I only slept 3 hours the nite before) and then proceeded to the various roads like Flower Street, Tung Choi Street (Ladies Market) to do SHOPPING!

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Basically, it was like a big pasar malam.. we walked and walked and walked… along the way, we bought 1 Chinese style double side top for Max, one orange top for me (it was $32 when I saw in Far East Sqaure, I bought only at $10!

Along the way, we met people who scold us when we bargain and walk off.. but we also met Top Sales like the lady who sold the top for Max. No hard push to buy.. just push to try and hope you like it once you see yourself in the mirror.. What a great sales tactic!

I found out that Max is much better at bargaining than me. I always heart soft and want to give in but realize that when I walk away, it works wonders.. the thing can from $199 become $50 ok!
Anywayz, the said thing is that I am still FAT:S That is why cannot buy much.. but anyway, the things they sell all the same one… clothes, shoes, cute stuff, underwear, imitation branded bags, shirts…

Still, there were so many things to see.. there was a whole street with food (there was smelly toufu, and all the fried squids, this and that) Max was sad.. we are vegetarians and cant try all those. In the past, he would surely whack.. and then we also found xu liu shan and had mango dessert there..

We also walked through an electrical street and also a street that sells all sorts of pets like fish, frogs, turtles, cats, dogs.. so cute!!!

And then we walked all the way from Mongkok MTR.. to Argyle street, to Flower street to Prince Edward street just to look for egg tarts. But alas, we can’t find it and I got really grumpy cos we were walking for so long that my breasts were full, and painful, I was tired.. legs were painful and I had a back ache…

And cos Max was anxious to find the egg tart shop, he did not notice when I wanted to look at some things and I got more grumpy by the second. Alas when we finally found the shop, it did not sell egg tarts because it was MOON CAKE FESTIVAL! They only made mooncakes! Sigh.. :S Max was so disappointed cos he said it is the best egg tarts in the world and wanted me to try it too…

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Anywayz, it is easy to find a vegetarian restaurant there.. we just anyhow walk and came to this place that sold lots of vegetarian food we never see before.. we ordered a white sauce udon noodle (looks like a mix between Japanese udon and Italian white sauce sphagheti) and deep fried toufu tat tasted like KFC! No shit!

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We had dinner and tried to walk back.. we found a very nice mickey mouse t shirt and bought a pair.. heheh only $40HK my god.. tat’s like $8 for two pieces.. so cheap!!Then we decided to try to pretend to want to buy imitation bags and I finally got a chance to go to the backend warehouses to take a look at the imitation stuff. SO exciting! And most important, so many things to see! I also dunno what to buy!!!

Finally, we decided to head back to the hotel and because we were dead tired by then, I requested that we go nearby for our night plan of clubbing the night away. We tried to find a decent disco at Seibu (right next to hotel we stay) and climbed up to the tallest storey (so scarey when you look down cos got glass and no railings) but we couldn’t find any..

we went back to the hotel, left our things, pumped milk and tried to ask the hotel stuff but alas, the nearest nightspot is ome distance away and was closing in like an hour’s time. Gee, I tot HK was very happening.. sigh…

So we decided to go to 7 Eleven to buy some drinks and drink in our room.

Mongkok after 12 midnight is a different world…

The normal business signs were switched on and all around, you see pictures of women in half clad lingerie pictures around. You see a lot of men hanging around the streets just like geylang and you see ver few SINGLE LADIES walking around liao..

Even the newspaper stores take out the porno VCDs and DVDs to sell liao.. the illegal hawkers will also come out and start selling things. We bought some peanuts and some drinks from 7 Eleven and quickly walked back to our hotel cos it was starting to rain.

Finally, after one year, I get to drink BEER! Hahaha.. cos I was breastfeeding, I cant drink in case the alcohol goes into my milk. Boy does it feel good man.

All the walk made me feel heaty and the beer certainly soothed me.

We took a bath ad then I was so tired I just knocked out.

Maybe it is cos it sit the first night Ace is not around me. I felt strange and kept waking up. Also dreamt of Ace crying and that woke me up in a frenzy. Darn, dun have to b/feed at nite also cannot sleep well..:(