The shop where we had the dinner.
The empty dishes - forgot to take the pictures before we started eating.
The oyster omelette being fried.
The super oily (but quite tasty) oyster omelette.
Backtrack a bit. Some other pictures.
The HK$100 voucher that we were given for the delay in yesterday's ferry ride.
The card that opens the door to our suite in the Venetian.
The Venetian view by day.
Waiting for the bus to bring us to the Macau-Hong Kong Ferry Terminal.
Taken after clearing the Hong Kong Immigration.
We had a simple breakfast of cakes and milo in the hotel room before starting off for the Macau-Hong Kong ferry terminal. We rushed to take the 10.15 am ferry. When we arrived, we walked across the road from the Shun Tuck Centre (where the terminal is housed), and saw the Western Market. There was some kind of charity event with different small stalls in the area. We had dim sum lunch at one of the restaurants there. They have a funny system – different rates for the dim sum dishes if you finish before 12.30 pm or arrive after 2 pm or something like that. The dim sum was tasty, and we also had a dish of beef noodles, all for HK$358. I paid with HK$400, but the lady gave me HK$100+ in change. I didn’t realize it until she called me back to ask for the extra HK$100. After lunch, we continued walking around in the area. There was a food market nearby (Cheong Wan market). When I saw the sign showing poultry, I got everyone to turn around and walked away.
We walked to the MTR station, and took the train to Causeway Bay station, where Times Square is located. Very crowded area also, and they had metal barriers ready for setting up for crowd control during the countdown on New Year’s eve. We went into Sogo department store, and saw a lot of Japanese sweets. We each had fruit jelly (Zewen had yoghurt). I had the fruit jelly many times when I was in Tokyo last November. Bought them cheap from the 24-hour supermarket near Shinjuku-san-chome. We spent some time looking for each other when we got lost in the crowd.
From there, we took the MTR to Mong Kok, to Fa Yuen Street where the sportswear shops were located. There were many of these shops, and also shops selling cameras, handphones and computer stuff. Mong Kok was very very crowded today, much more than yesterday. It appeared to be even more crowded than Tokyo’s Shinjuku on weekends.
If this signboard looks familiar, it's because it is the Hong Kong version of Guardian. Here they call it Manning's.
From Mong Kok, we walked to Yau Mei Tai, where Miew Gai is. We stopped at the mango dessert shop (another branch). We had mango drinks with extra servings of mango fruit – I had it with red beans, while the 2 mdms had theirs with pomegranate. Mine also had coconut milk, so even more saturated fats taken into my body. It started to drizzle, and the stall owners were just beginning to set up their stalls in Miew Gai. It was like Sungei Road in Singapore. Not much that was interesting. Many stalls were selling adult sex toys and some shops were selling pirated DVDs and adult DVDs. We wanted to eat steamboat buffet at a restaurant. From outside, the price said HK$68 per person, but when we walked closer to read the posters, we found out that the total price was more than HK$120 per person (including the soup base, side dishes etc). We decided not to eat that, and ended up eating the clay pot dinner.
After dinner, we walked to the Yau Mei Tai MTR station to take the train to Sheung Wan (Hong Kong-Macau ferry terminal). We caught the earlier ferry (8.30 pm instead of 9.00 pm) and reached the hotel earlier. On the way to the station, we bought one cut up pineapple and a bunch of 8 bananas from a fruit stall. We had ice cream again at MacDonald’s (only HK$2.50, which is less then 50 cents each). There was free wi-fi but only for 20 minutes login each day. I managed to log in and read my office emails, and sent an email to my sister to let her know I am fine.
Dennis messaged to recommend Portuguese food at Dumbo restaurant near Venetian. I guess he must be back in Singapore. I sms him to ask him to tell us about Zhuhai and he had some recommendations, although he said not to go if we had a choice. We will go to Zhuhai for half a day tomorrow (for seafood lunch and to look around), then come back to meet Sung Pong for dinner. Dennis said to enjoy the weather while we are still here – he is dying of the humidity in Singapore.,
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