walala..photos..walala..

cannot tahan for not posting up these photos. i took so many photos before i come back from the evil HK but i don’t know why i am not putting them up earlier. so i must put them up to show you what you can do if you are in Hong Kong travelling. lol. act as travel blog pulak.


#1 how can you resist dim sum. and when it’s from Lin Heung Tea House. One of the best in Hong Kong(according to many reviews)


#2 very nice Dinasour Ribs from Pepperonis Pizza and Cafe.


#3  pepperoni pizza. we were at the Saikung branch. there’s a branch over in Mid-level, just beside the Central-Mid Level escalator. their pizzas are nice!!

 
#4 OMG, my fave Gong Cha!! say YAY!! every cup is huge, see the cup the man holding??yea, that’s the size, you can share it if you want, then you save more!! therefore it’s very “dai yum”. hopefully they didn’t raise the price.


#5 For 4th June, there’re some memorial thingy around Causeway Bay. there’s people painting themselves yellow outside SOGO. each one delivering a different message.


#6. Lan Fong Yuen at Gage Street. Famous enough, so don’t need to say much. have to say the si-mut milk tea is really nice.


#7 Tin Hau Street on Hollywood Street.


#8 The Peak!! very nice view, no wonder is a must-go place of Hong Kong. i recommend to go in evening, then you can see the view of Hong Kong during day and night, then have a romantic dinner in one of the restaurant.


#9 Australian Dairy Co. in Jordan. Like the scramble eggs(炒蛋) very much, i heard that they add in milk to give the smooth texture.


#10 Hong Kong Cultural Museum. A good place to take photos. Free entry to every museum on Wednesday!!


#11 Avenue of Stars, Tsim Sha Tsui.
lol. i am so bad at giving caption.

filler photos

Macau!!!


Lin Heung Tea House(again)


Yau Ma Tei and Mongkok(shopping..whee..)


Central~~


The Peak


Jordan at Jordan..kikshou~~~
basically there are too much people writing about Hong Kong out there.
for food, i go to openrice.com
for tourist, go to Hong Kong tourism board and google map
because Hong Kong not very big only.lol

Good things come together so we have Dim Sum

Too bad i am bad at sports. I don’t know how swim, i don’t know how play badminton. People say the best way to release stress is to play sports, no wonder i so stress, stress don’t know where to put. How?? That day after the heart-to-heart sharing, i suddenly suggest “let’s go to sing K” .
Here we go on Saturday night to Neway at Mongkok. At first the girl at the counter doesn’t want to let us sing overnight. Thanks to Shiaun to “seduce” the girl to let us sing “a bit longer” (which is for another 4 hours..hahaha)
After singing some rubbish songs that doesn’t need much energy, we took MTR over to Central for this very famous restaurant in Central for Dim Sum. I’ve always wanted to go there for Dim Sum but i never wake up early enough for Dim Sum (i thought they only serve Dim Sum in morning, they actually serve till noon!!) But it's always good to wake up early to join the old folks for breakfast, kan?


1/ Never walk on a quiet street of Mongkok under day light before. it took me sometime to find the correct turning into the MTR station. It’s a total different view day and night.



2/ in front of a clothing shop near Lan Kwai Fong. empty beer bottles tell it all.



3/ Walk all the way from Lan Kwai Fong to Lin Heung Tea House along Wellington street. Sit down and found that the restaurant will be closed starting next day for renovation. such a good luck day. we are in time for the last day of business!!



4/ Specialty in Lin Heung, each customer can order tea of their choice and they serve you in a bigger tea cup instead of the teapot. No need to argue what tea you should have, get the one you like.



5/ then you pour tea into your cup.



6/ refill your tea, if you don’t want to bother the waiter. Take off the cover of your cup or teapot if you want the waiter to refill for you.



7/ the rare Dim Sum cart in Hong Kong. hong kong people please come to Ipoh, i bring you go eat Dim Sum and show you dim sum cart. what a proud Ipoh-mali



8/ Bring over the order sheet to the cart, pick the dishes, let ah jie chop on the order sheet.



9/ Siu Mai(烧卖) and Har Gao(虾饺) . i miss the Muar Siu Mai with the chilli sauce, my breakfast.



10/Char Siu Bao(叉烧包) and Sin Juk Giun(鲜竹卷). The best char siu bao after Fu San.



11/ Jin Dui(煎堆). Like the pastry. with a special aroma and crispy. unlike the one my mum get in pasar, oily and hard. the lotus fillings is different from red bean fillings i used to have. i recommend this!!



12/ Chicken legs(凤爪) and Pig Liver Roll(猪肝卷). didn’t try because i don’t eat them. but an uncle sharing the same table as us insist that we should try the liver roll saying that it can only be found in Lin Heung Tea House.



13/ mushroom chicken(蘑菇鸡) and cotton chicken(棉花鸡). cotton is actually fish skin XD



14/ erm..some fried rice i forgot the name. very filling, taste like the fried rice we had during Chinese wedding banquet. and i make a stupid joke about this. keep it as inside joke.



15/ shiau aun=shiaun. the tongue don’t stick out lar



16/ ghee leng. this photo very nice XDDD



17/ very tired until i can’t think properly.
i think i should make a better ending.
thanks people for helping. thanks for helping to build up my confidence. terima kasih. 带你妈看戏. ありがとうございました. Danke! grazie! merci!
莲香楼
Lin Heung Tea House

160-164 Wellington Street,
Central, Hong Kong
Reservation : 2544 4556

Long Island

Every 8th of the 4th lunar calendar month, Cheung Chau’s residents celebrate Bun Festival(包山节) aka 太平清醮. Cheung Chau is a  fishing village, every year at this time they will pray to the god for safety and prosperity, and also thank God for blessing the villagers in the previous year.
The two highlights of the festival are the Colour Parade in the afternoon and then bun-mountain climbing competition at midnight. In Colour Parade(飘色), different organizations will dress up kids as different characters, then they will be put up on a cart which will be push by adults. The kids are well treated, adults will be serving drinks, fan-ing the kids from below. During midnight, participants will compete to be the first to reach the top of the bun mountain.


1/ departing from Kai-to Pier, Discovery Bay


2/ reach Peng Chau 15 minutes later


3/found that Peng Chau is a traditional village. famous for cheap and fresh seafood. next time should spend some time on this small island.


4/ saw a laundry shop that sell veggie. they do laundry inside lar.


5/ took another ferry to Cheung Chau. finally took one ferry that is not rocky and bumpy.


6/striking banner celebrating the festival


7/ polices put up police line so that audiences won't keep on pushing to the front. people squeezing at every inch possible. you have to imagine the crowd, we were being shove around like revolving door by people who wants to go into the alley.


8/ colour parade. kids being dressed up and put up on cart.


9/ fire fighters spraying fragrant water, crying baby, representing restaurant


10/ LuiMan Brother, WaiSiuBo, cheering for East Asia Game


11/ the kids on top can only stand on one leg. i think they have more supporting metal inside.


12/ and the kid below have to hold on to the kid on top.


13/ the two kids were fixed on the cart. the kid below cant be carrying the one on top and the one on top cant be standing on one feet.


14/ 麒 and 麟 kirin. two of the four lucky mascots of China besides dragon and phoenix


15/ my favourite lion dance. lion here are so colourful! green, purple and blue!


16/green, black and  fluorescent orange


17/ pink!! yellow and lions on bamboo stick


18/ giant puppets


19/ temples on Cheung Chau have their keepers bring out the god statue for audiences to pay their respect


20/ people can burn(??) joss stick when the cart pass by them


21/ there are quite a number of temples on Cheung Chau


22/ kids dancing during the parade


23/ pairs of gong


24/ colourful flags with blessing wordings on them.


25/ residents really enjoyed themselves in the festival, smiley faces on everyone’s face.


26/ flower girls and another type of flags


27/ lanterns


28/ more bigger flags that need around 6 people to carry


29/ the must eat Ping On Bun. they have red bean, lotus and custard flavour, very similar to the tortoise bun during nine goddess festival on 9th lunar calendar
month.

30/ big bun mountain and small bun mountain


31/ bun mountain for competition. The supporting frames used to build by wood or bamboo. After it collapse in 1978, the event stops for 17 years. During its reintroduction in 2005, they start to build the frame using metal. After trainings and semi-final beforehand, 12 finalist were chosen and will be competing on the midnight of the actual day.

32/ ping-on bun side products. coin purse and decoration


33/ more side products. blanket and t-shirts

 
34/ Seafood Street. they say seafood here are not as expensive as SaiKung and Lamma Island.


35/ hope to be back one day. wish to explore the unexplored part of Cheung Chau.

the blog has gradually turn into a travel blog of hong kong.i shall go sit by the corner and reflect on the things i did.