HK travel log day 6

on our sixth and second last day (for the girls at least), we headed for dim sum breakfast at the said restaurant in the picture below, located at Tim Ho Wan of Mong Kok.

so the saying goes, never judge a book by its cover. one may be deceived by the exteriors of this eatery but it has one of the best dim sums in HK. the chef has been awarded one Michelin star and the average waiting time is about 2 hours. So we got our queue number before heading off to walk around. When we finally went back, there was some miscommunication and the owner of the shop was rather rude which kinda spoilt our moods.

but their food won our hearts over easily.

pork porridge

carrot cake was so smooth

chee cheong fan was the bomb. woah.

har gao

this was the char siew pastry, one of their signature dishes. oh gosh. my salivary glands are active just doing this post.

Osmanthus jelly

After lunch, the girls had errands to run so we separated from the boys. We made our ways back to Granville circuit where Rise shopping arcade was and had to do some exchange at their polaroid shophouse.

we then headed back to Argyle cause we needed to do some clothes exchange.

and tried their happy lemon! they have it in Sg too :)

oh and one thing about HK, they sell cold noodles in small packets. You choose the type of noodle you want, and 2 types of food (octopus, jellyfish, crab stick etc etc) to go along and its mixed together with sauces. oh my. it is so awesome i can't even begin to describe. the thing is, i didn't have the appetite to eat it on that particular noon so M and C said really weird things to tempt me to eat and gave me angry faces when i resisted their temptations >:(

because we had severe time constrains, we cabbed around the places, stopped at Sneakers' Street and got Vans for M before rushing back home for r's home made dinner!

the 2 boys posed with OUR FOOD >:( because they started digging into the food too fast

After dinner, we rested for quite some time (i.e. nap for me, ha ha) before the girls went off separately from the guys (yes, again) cause we needed to use our vouchers from Agnes B. so off we headed for causeway bay and it was a night of robert-ness. we got into the cab and i immediately realized i left my phone back at home (S and I were the points of contact between the boys and girls) so M had to msg the guys with her sg number.

Here we are, outside Agnes B, Causeway Bay

And the most robert-ed thing happened. Actually it happened in the noon but we only came to realize it there and then. So many calls were made back to Sg and we were in quite a fluster but thank God everything got taken care of by wonderful colleagues :)

so once we were done at Agnes B, we cabbed back to Sneakers street and got myself a pair of vans too!

Here we are, in our Vans :) can't be found in Sg !

When we were finally willing to stop shopping, we met the guys for supper at this beef noodles eatery down the street of our apartment. it was really good!

And after supper, we headed to stock up on instant pastas that we could bring back to Sg.

Back at home, some last photos were taken

our shoes lining the hallway

Here's the instant noodles!

packing.

packing..

Us in the souvenirs SM got for us :)

because it was the girls' last night, everyone was spontaneous enough to do a shuffling video together, ha ha ha.

which also marks the end of our wonderful journey :)

HK travel log day 5

As we can see, this travel log is pretty back dated (all the way back to mid July) because my laziness got the better of me.

on the fifth morning, we woke up and headed straight for the hotel nearby our apartment because they had half price off dimsums before 11AM. you can see from the picture how everyone was in their sleeping attire and hairstyle.

after a very sumptuous breakfast, we headed back home to rest and prepare for the day.

customary group photo <3

by the time everyone was ready, it was noon so we headed to Langham shopping mall for desserts. they have this in Sg too but i think HK's ones beats everywhere else hands down.

at 记得吃

after desserts, we followed the guys around and watch them shop for Red wings (!!).

because this was so long ago, i can't exactly remember what took place in between except that the guys and girls went shopping separately. If i'm not mistaken, the girls went to shop at Argyle right outside MK MRT while the guys went some place else. Argyle was really awesome and we spent 2 hours just shopping the first 3 stories! Now we know where our clothes from Far East originates from, albeit at much more affordable prices!

we got back home in the evening, rested for a very short while and left soon after because we needed to get a souvenir for SM (who was flying off to canada) and then head for the peak.

here we are, at the tram station which would take us to the peak, with SM and our souvenir for him.

everyone had the chance to take a photo with him

the cousins :)

while waiting for the tram up, we had much time to photo-bomb again

here we are, at the peak, outside Madame Tussaud wax museum.

on our ways to the toilet, the boys accidentally discovered that the back exit led to this breathtaking scenery which overlooks the city. it. was. so. beautiful.

so needless to say, everyone had an individual shot!

after we took enough photos, we had dinner at BK, and took more photos.

and were crazy enough to do a visa dance in the open space (which will be shown in vlog 6)

awwwwww <3

and then came the funny shots

just couldn't jump..

on our ways down, we had to take more photos.

start to observe the very annoying expression in the background

Actually, it was pretty funny. we were at the MTR station, the girls, together with MW, managed to get on and the boys were left behind. so the girls went off to buy some (girls') stuff from mannings (our guardian) and the boys called to inform us they wanted us to meet someone. we got into huge flusters because we WERE buying girls' stuff when the guys found us.

imagine our shock when we saw PC!

on our ways to the super mart. we bought so many packets of instant pastas home.

the night was pretty unforgettable. we were supposed to make a dancing video but S fell asleep out of lethargy and the rest of us were just hanging out in the living room. i was in the kitchen tog with MW and he was preparing his pasta when he asked how long he should put his pasta in the microwave. basing on my intuition, i said 2 minutes. (which was obviously NOT the case because the instruction which MW didn't bother to read stated 5 minutes) he had to put it in a second time and it probably affected the taste by quite a bit.

because everyone else except me was eating supper, i wanted to try a bit of MW's pasta. within 5 seconds, everyone stared dumbfounded at the pasta that fell onto the carpet. (some background info: the previous night, JJ had stepped on the sofa to get pass someone and he accidentally stepped on the ends of the curtain, thus pulling some portions off the hook. we were pretty sure S's grandparents will ban us from their home forever) imagine the horror.

thankfully, R was smart enough to know how to handle the mess and we secretly tried to keep it from S, who was sound asleep.

so that was the end of our fifth day in Hong Kong!

the video is combined with the morning of our fourth day