Hong Kong Trip Day 1

Luckily I took an extra day to rest at home, freaking tired and slept till 11plus. Has it been raining for the past few days? But it's super shiok to stay at home when it's raining, haha. Okok, recap of my Hong Kong trip!

Cam-whore session on the plane.

Nice sunrise shot that mingster took on the plane

Burger King in Chinese: 汉堡王

So cute! Cabs are in different colours representing the different areas of Hong Kong that they drive around. We're headed for Yau Ma Tei, so it's the red cab!

Mingster feeling thrilled in a cab, haha. Everything along the way looked so familiar, it felt like we were part of some Hong Kong TV serial. The last time I went to Hong Kong I didn't get to take a cab, so the cab ride was a brand new experience! Btw, the cab fare was super expensive! The journey from the airport to our hotel was about SG$60! Gosh!

Our Hotel/Lodge: Caritas Bianchi Lodge. It's actually quite clean though the building looks quite old, and the location is good too! A good choice if you don't want to spend too much on lodging.

Mannings?? Isn't that Guardian? Yep, Guardian for SG, Mannings for Hong Kong.

Went to a restaurant (皇冠粥面餐厅) near our hotel to settle our lunch and it was a treat from mama.

A very nice drink that mingster ordered: 西洋菜蜜

Mama's dish: 牛腩面

Mingster's dish: 黑胡椒牛肉饭

Mine is some sort of fish baked rice. They all tasted pretty good! Good start! Haha..

Following are somemore of FBF's photography cam-whore session =)

On the train to our next destination. Basically for our first day, we went around exploring parts like Causeway Bay and the Mongkok area. We didn't buy anything during the first day as we were just browsing around and keeping in mind the items we like and we planned to buy them all in one shot the following day, more shiok! Haha..

Rihanna's news on the MTR. Omg, gossip updates on a public transport!

Following are some of the shops that we went to. It was quite disappointing on the first day cause we couldn't find anything that we like, even if we did, the pricings kept me from buying them. For example, we came upon a Beams store and there was this Beam's checked flannel shirt that's quite nice, but it cost SG$200! What the hell, fucking expensive lo! But expected lah, Japanese labels are like that.

Next came one of the biggest disappointment of the entire trip! The Kura Chika shop that sells Porter Tokyo products in the area is closed! We were looking for it like crazy, referring to a map we brought along from home. We were very very sure we nailed the right location, but the shop just was nowhere in sight! We finally gave up and started asking store assistants working in surrounding shops but no one seemed to know where or what this shop is about, so we guessed it must have closed down for quite some time. Ugh! Fortunately, the Kura Chika counter boutique inside the Sogo departmental store nearby was still around, so we managed to have a look around at the current available Porter Tokyo range.

Edison Chen's shop: Juice (Warning : Sales staff there sux, rude young asses!)

Was stopped by a sales girl from the shop when I took this photo at the entrance of Juice.

Michael Lau's character for his collaboration with Xlarge at the Xlarge corner inside the Doublepark I.T. store.

The Beams tee store mentioned earlier.

The super famous 老婆饼store in Hong Kong.

This mushroom burger was SO expensive! We ordered the set meal and it cost us SG$15.20! OMG!

咖哩鱼丸 + 肠子

Famous sports goods street. An entire stretch of street that sells shoes and other sporting goods. Mingster had been anticipating a visit to this place, but he was super disappointed with the selection of shoes found here. He was expecting to find/see rare shoes in Hong Kong as the sneaker/streetwear culture in HK is very strong, but to his surprise, it's sorta worse than Singapore. Probably all good sneakers were all snatched up clean once they were released, leaving the not-so-good stuffs to remain on the racks.

臭豆腐( really very smelly, like stagnant drain water, but hey, did not taste anything like how it smells!)

Dinner time! Stopping by a random restaurant on our way back.

Hey! Yishun?! Haha, it's a dessert store that sells steamed egg and steamed milk.

This is a Japanese restaurant that's right outside our hotel and we were super amazed by the queue outside the restaurant. Regardless of what time it is, whether it's 11am in the morning or 11pm at night, the seats inside were always fully packed and there would be a long queue outside! So we planned to try it out on our 3rd day. Well, after trying, it's nothing fantastic, dunno what the whoo haa was about. Maybe it's one of the better Japanese food available in HK? *shrugs*

End of Day 1.