On food and dream...

Well, takes a long time to prep photos, nonetheless, had completed the food tour of Hong Kong over my 4 days there. Enjoyed all meals except for one, which i had ordered wrongly and had the healthy breakfast set of milk with oatmeal. =P

Dreamt of going to workplace last night, probably as i was thinking of how to get there and wondering what to expect. Images of the workplace i will be at in Shell in my dream is still vivid in my mind. Wonder if it will be the same as in reality. It would be a case of dejavu if it was totally the same as reality, not to mention a bit frightening. Cos i would use that power to dream of toto winning numbers. Well, what would you expect me to use that power for? =P Hmmm... on lame thoughts, if the workplace is as had dreamt of, won't it mean that it is a dream job? heh heh

Anyway, back to makan in Hong Kong...


The vegetarian food is rather delicious and of a generous helping at the temple beside the big Buddha. We had the meal after climbing up the stairs to have a closer look at the Buddha and the surrounding landscape, which is rather nice. Had roasted goose and pigeon for dinner, my 1st time eating both. Goose was very good, and the pigeon is rather unique with a 'wilder' taste than duck meat.


Ordered wrongly and was served the milk with oatmeal. Yucks... but .. oh well, it is supposed to be healthy. Lunch as good with the pork balls and especially the pork balls with fish maw fillings, though it is a bit too salty. Dinner on Saturday was with Ray and his friends, with the good recommendation of 糖朝, where we had good food and the trademark BUCKET of 豆花. Very smooch and soft, and the bucket was big enough for 13 bowls of it. Woot! After dinner with Ray and gang, went to temple street for trying out the gui lin jelly. Also a big bowl S$5 only, enough for 3. Also a must try. =P


Woke up later on the last day, so had tim sum for brunch at 小肥羊. Not bad, but nothing fantastic. The highlight of the entire trip was the tea time at 池記, where the wanton and crab porridge is a MUST try! Crab porridge came in a bucket, a smaller one, enough for 5+ bowls and costs only S$10+. The wanton was superb with fresh prawns, and it was the ordinary ones as the special wantons were sold out as they make only 20 bowls per day. Normal ones are so good, wonder how power the special made ones are. Also chanced upon an old man selling roasted chestnuts at S$2 per pound. It is not only cheap, but very well done. =D

Day 1 in Hong Kong

Flew off from Changi airport at 11 am in the morning with Cathay Pacific airlines. A rather pleasant flight with Pirates of the Carribean: World's End to entertain me. =) And soon, we landed in Hong Kong, and it was a shock for me as i fell asleep just before touch down and was rudely awoken by the jolt of the aircraft wheels touching down on the runway.

We took slightly more than half an hour to pass the immigration as the queue was VERY long, and i took a photo with my mom with the count down clock to 2008 Olympics. We took the airport transfer (which was included in the package, else rather ex.) to the hotel and along the way, get to visit HK Disneyland's .... hotels. haha.



Was at Niu Ren street and Mong Kok area for the rest of the night as it was already 6pm when we left the hotel to explore Kowloon. The dinner was ... very good actually, with pork chop bun and maggie mee. Yes. More photos when i get back. Too tired to add the night scenes and more about the food. Actually wanted to take photo of the food BEFORE we eat, but forgotten all about photo taking when it arrived. =P

Well.... all in all, Hong Kong was amazingly big! Yes... i know it is a lot bigger than Singapore, just that in HK drama serials, there are so much city scape that... hmmmm... never expect that much green hills and undeveloped hiterland around. Good good. a few photos to show the difference, maybe update when i get back. heh. And oh... visited a mahjong club along the street... didnt get in though, cos the cigarette smoke was so thick, one could probably get cancer faster than he can lose some money. =P

Weather is ok. Warm in the afternoon, a bit of smog as the sky was hazy, though dont have the burning smell, but think is smog... like what i breathed in in bangkok years back.

Other than that, wheng, my mom and i enjoyed it so far, tomorrow is off to the visit the Buddha.. er... somewhere near the airport. =D So will update again tomorrow!