I can only express amazement about Hong Kong. After a few months of travelling in Asia, even if ppl look alike myself, I did not understand A WORD of what they would say to me. Now in Hong Kong, i would be able to understand any conversation ppl would bring up in between them, either if it's in the metro, restaurant, shop, it's amazing to distinguish the different subjects in the brouhaha .
It's only once I sit down at those street eateries, that I realize how much i miss real Chinese food: greasy seafood, rice in pot ( Bo tzai fan), and all the tasty desserts Tong Sui. With Eviann, we ate until we explode every night!
M Hotel, at Yau Ma Tei, near Portland street...( took me a while de remember and pronounce the names lol)
View from the 17th floor, there is a nice futon seat next to the window, where we lie down to chillax or just sit to surf on Wifi with the laptop.
Our hotel room is quite cozy & modern designed, the bed and linens are very comfortable, with a plasma HD quality Tv...watching TVB shows and news in cantonese all day....wow it's LUXURY!!! lol On my first day alone, as i got woken up to keep Eviann company for the free breakfast of the hotel before she went to work at 8am. I just stayed in the whole day chilling in the room...so far so good to get some rest from the exhausting shopping spree!!
Hong Kong highlights up to now:
- really like the local area of Yau Ma Tei, ppl are casual, we could walk out in our joggings to buy take out and ppl won't give your weird looks! It's the 'night market' i would call, as there are some cheap goods sell outdoors just beside the street eats cantines.
- there's a street full of fortune teller kiosks: go my face trait and hand lines read by a very nice lady. Some stuff were pretty revealing!!! but it's kinda depressing too!! =P
- traveled around the city by subway: so well indicated, too safe and clean wagons, there are English signs under the Chinese characters...You can't really get lost!!! The 'opus' card is so convenient...i love the concept of filling it with money at 7eleven and buy whatever u need at the store without having to carry some change!
- Shopped around at Tsim Sa Tseui..seemed pretty upscale brands for me, but apparently it wasn't the most classy yet! MongKok street..i would name it the Chinese Times Square..with better food at every corner!! wow i got so full of eating curry fish balls, egg waffles ( Gai dan tzai ) & all kinds of shakes on the streets!! and everything is so lively, shops were not even closing at 11pm...spending a day shopping there is simply very dangerous...risk of bankruptcy!!!
Lazy evenings...our delicious take outs to eat in front of the Tee-Vee!!
There were no bowls to eat the Yeung Chow fried rice...haha used the hotel's tea cup to eat!!
ahh We miss homemade food!!
Materialistic
The next morning of my journey in Hk...spendings are unrolling fast...
- a pair of good RAYBAN...finally!!
- Shu Uemura kit of cream: was in need of intensive skin care... Indeed felt good to pamper ourselves with exfoliation & mask in the evening! The shop gave a free PURPLE hard shell hand carry size suitcase since our purchase altogether went over 5000 hk!!! so happy i dont need to find another suitcase to bring back!!
- Can't wait to buy a new camera..struggling in between the Lumix LX5 or Olympus XZ-1...White cameras are soo pretty!!!!
April 16th: heading to GuanZhou....
i have high expectation for cheap cheap bargains on clothing, shoes & earrings!!! can't wait to see this other side of CHINA
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