Hong Kong : Food Hunt

So I spent a very short 2 days in Hong Kong sometime ago & it's actually been a whopping... 6 years since I last went to Hong Kong for a holiday! That was back in 2009 with 2 friends from SAJC & in fact... those blogposts are still on my blog. That's how old this blog is hahaha.

Anyway the main purpose of this trip was to go to Hong Kong Disneyland!

So I bought the tickets online, prepared my theme-park-going outfit (cute to suit the Disneyland theme but still practical for being outdoors all day, hey it's not as easy as guys think ok)...

THEN IT POURED ALL DAY.

And it wasn't even a drizzle. It was a proper downpour & the weather forecast predicted it would last till evening! Theme park-ing in that weather would SUCK. So we cancelled our plans T_T

Luckily the Hong Kong Disneyland tickets are valid for a couple of months, so we'll have to plan another short trip back to the city! What a bummer...

Anyhow we did get to try a few yummy food places thanks to Yina's pretty comprehensive blogpost on Hong Kong! You can check it out HERE; I referred to it for a few of the places she went to!

Tsui Wah

If I had to pick one ultimate favourite Hong Kong food, it would be this.

Macaroni soup with luncheon meat & egg. So incredibly simple but so, so good!

Macaroni - awesome.

Luncheon meat - awesome.

Sunny side-up eggs - awesome.

It's a winning formula!

Anyway if you can't recognise the porcelain cup in the background, this was taken at Tsui Wah.

Tsui Wah has a chain of Cha Chaan Teng cafes & so it may be what you call commercialised, if you're into those hole-in-the-wall type of things. However many Tsui Wahs open late or even 24 hours, with an extensive food menu that's still pretty good (to me), so I'll definitely keep going back!

Bai Wei Cold Noodles

Argyle Centre

Mongkok

So I tried these cold noodles back in 2009 & since then I've never forgotten them.

It's a small stall & you just pick which sauce + toppings you like!

And don't forget to check out Argyle Centre itself! It's kinda like a smaller version of Bangkok's Platinum Mall & I bought a few things here. Argyle Centre is much better for shopping than many of the other street markets, which have become so touristy that they sell really boring & ugly souvenirs. In fact many of the items at the street markets can be found at Singapore's own tourist trap - Chinatown.

Hui Lau Shan

Another food chain, but it serves a wide variety of mango desserts!

All the different options are pretty creative & as again with chains, open till pretty late!

Tried a random street shop's curry fishballs, but they are so different from Singapore's!

Singapore's fishballs are more springy while Hong Kong's are so starchy. Not a fan :/

Capitol Cafe

Wan Chai

So Capitol Cafe is one those FAMOUS breakfast cafes! 

The other would be Australian Dairy Co, but I didn't visit it on this trip.

Their macaroni soup was really good, but they're apparently famous for the Black Truffle Scrambled Eggs! Well I'm not a huge scrambled eggs (prefer omelettes) nor truffle fan, but this definitely was very fragrant, even to me. Texture of the eggs were really good too.

Oddies Foodies

Wan Chai

The ubiquitous egglets (I guess this is like an Asian version of waffles?) now with ice-cream & chocolate syrup! There's a few variations (pineapple, sesame... etc) but we stuck to the simplest with chocolate syrup, called Night Wolf. It was not bad, but I didn't find it particularly worth making a trip out to find. Maybe the other flavours would be more unique? Mine in the end was just... a waffle with ice-cream & chocolate. 

It's however located pretty near to Capitol Cafe, so it makes sense to try both if you're in the area!

The usual MTR tiled walls!

Reminder to self not to take pictures with grid lines in the background.

Even Meitu Xiu Xiu cannot edit this much haha.

Caught taking pictures.

Kau Kee Beef Brisket Noodles

Central

Wow this was SO GOOD.

And if you know me I'm rarely enthusiastic about things! :O :O :O

I had the curry beef brisket for supper & it was really super yummy!

Really glad we got to try this!

Okay so final conclusion is: Capitol Cafe & Kau Kee Beef Brisket Noodles

These are the 2 places you must try!

I didn't bother with actual street addresses because I bought data & simply Google Maps the restaurant/shop names (don't even need the street name) & follow the route!

Hong Kong Day 6 and purchases!

Gracia and I share the sofa bed and she keeps asking me random questions in the still of the night.

Sophie: "You just interrupted my praying. I had to say 'Dear God, please excuse me for a minute' to reply you".

Gracia: "Let me pray now too. See whose prayer gets more attention".

Wtf hahahahaha I totally burst out laughing at that. But anyway I really do tell God very random things like "brb I go switch off the light".

Last day in Hong Kong was spent shopping at the same places we did on the first day woohoo. I wound up so seriously indebted to Gracia and Peiling sob sob sob. Peiling bought so much stuff we had to come all the way back to the apartment to drop it off before heading back out to shop again.

Bags and bags and bags of purchases.

Tsim Sha Tsui Station

We went to their Avenue Of Stars which is kind of like a Hong Kong version of the Hollywood one with the whole cement hand-prints and stuff.

Hong Kong skyline

My umbrella! So keWlz right!!!!

I walked through the entire MTR station with my umbrella open hehezxz. Reminds me of the time Peiling and I ran through the entire station playing Catch or something.

OH AND I FORGOT TO MENTION BUT... In Hong Kong you have to pay for extra McNuggets sauce! CHEAPO $_$

Purchases:

Oh anyway H&M (which is coming to Singapore soon) in Hong Kong was like very big but I didn't find much to buy there except the sheer beige chiffon top in the bottom row. And I'm not even really sure how I'll wear it haha.

Shoes I bought were so random. I bought 3 pairs of heels although I never wear heels because I have short friends. And I already have booties which cost me $80 and which I hardly wear, but these grey ones cost only $9...

The gold pair is the most redundant because.. it is one size too small HAHAHA. But it was only $3!

Bought white loafers to replace mine which are dying, although you can buy them at AMK Hub for like $10.

Didn't buy many bags, kind of have a lot already and I seem to always use the same few so what for.

Miscellaneous! Quite a lot of stuff from DFS like the Vodka and Ferragamo perfume. Coach isn't cheaper in Hong Kong but the shops here seemed to have stopped carrying this design.

The bear/pig/mouse thingys on the left are toothbrush holders so cutesy right!

Disney cherry keychain, and a Disney bracelet haha so childish.

Disney Chip and Dale notebook!

Rings, earrings and bracelets. Haha another Disney ring which can only fit unto my pinkie oh well.

Looking at what I bought, it doesn't seem like a lot right? I don't know how I managed to spend $900. There's some other random stuff I didn't take pictures of, like the 3 shorts, 3 leggings and 3 tubes of concealer (dark eye circles sob sob) and other random stuff but still...

No time to talk, no time to chat! Played Left 4 Dead yesterday for the first time, or rather I watched Chloe play it (she's damn coward, always hiding behind the rest). Zombiez kewlness. Hope I get to watch a movie today.

Hong Kong Day 5; DISNEYLAND

So yesterday I collected my ALevel results ):

I got A for H1 Geog (quite miraculous since I failed the whole of J2) and C for GP wtf wtf wtf.

A for H2 French, B for H2 Bio and C for H2 Math and Chem.

So ABC for As I guess? Not sure if it's BCC instead since although my French is a H2, isn't it like kind of a useless subject for Uni?

Cried only a little cause I can't say I don't deserve these grades. I'd have liked an A for Bio though, but I kind of neglected it trying to pull up my Math and Chem. And damn it, C for GP sob sob sob I got B throughout my J2 year wth...

Sigh anyway I am very sick of thinking about ALevels, ALevel results, Uni and SATs so here are the Disneyland pictures:

In the MTR

That's the special Disneyland train to bring us there!!!

The statuettes at the back differ for each couch.

Mickey ears!

At the train station, which has mickey ears all over and the Mickey magician hat for pillars.

I WURV THIS UMBRELLA. AND I BOUGHT IT HAHAHA. So bloody useless cause it can only fit one person, plus it's very big (non-retractable kind). And it cost me S$24. But it is so cool I will bring it to uni every day!

Hong Kong Disneyland is split into 3 sections: Adventureland, Fantasyland and Tomorrowland, plus the Main Street which is where the shops are.

HAHA I myself remarked that I look like I have a tummyache here. Anyway that's Tarzan's treehouse behind.

On the jungle river boat ride.

Looks quite real right.

With Minnie Mouse! She was motioning with her hands that I am very tall haha. Anyway bet she is insanely bored inside that suit.

On the Winnie the Pooh ride.

S$20 for one balloon please.

Omg the Autopia car rides was the lamest ride ever. The car has an accelerator pedal and a steering wheel but you follow some track anyway so you don't even need to steer. All I did was just keep ramming into Peiling and Gracia's car to occupy myself.

Hong Kong Disneyland has pretty good landscaping and stuff, but the attractions SUCK. There are like maybe 7 rides? All of which are not even mildly scary or adrenalin-pumping. None even require you to like, deposit your bag or whatever and most can do without a safety bar.

But the fireworks show was awesome! So pretty:

Main Street and the Castle in the background. Totally deserted because we were one of the last losers finally willing to leave Disney.

Ticket entry cost about S$70, plus we all went mad at the souvenir shop and blew another S$60+ on Disney memorabilia, and that was after a lot of heart-wrenching decisions to not buy some items.

We were one of the last tourists to leave Disneyland, so the staff gave us all their free Disney stickers! Each of us got a stack of it, and those are the characters below. Not really sure which Disney characters we are missing aside from Daisy.

I've like, 6 Eeyores or something haha. Gracia and I gave this little angmoh girl on the plane back quite a few of our spare stickers aww so cutesy.

Quite nice to relive Disneyland again through blogging, but it's back to the real world of getting a job asap and uni application sigh. But, I went to the zoo today!

OH AND MY DRIVING INSTRUCTOR DAMN CREEPY. He messaged me asking if I was home. Not sure if he meant home like house-home or back-in-Singapore-home but anyway I just said Oh back in Singapore already. And he replied: Ok miss u.

OMG CREEPY I didn't reply after that. Need to start lessons again soon though zzz getting bored of driving haha.

Watched Push last night, Dakota Fanning was quite cool as were some of the telekinetic powers. Overall the show was kind of confusing and sucky though, and there wasn't much of an ending so I guess this screams sequel..