It was my fifth time going to Hong Kong and 3rd time doing so with Babe. It's been a long time coming, she needed a break and I didn't mind visiting the place again since we didn't do so last year.
Day 1 was sort of a mixed bag though. We had plans to visit Macau during one of the days but I wasn't sure if we needed to dedicate a whole day to being there, so we took a bit risk, and decided to head there on day 1 of our journey.
Upon reaching the hotel though, we still had to wait till 2pm before we were given the room, so what better than to spend time munching on lunch goodies! The first two stops was at a stall down the road near where we ate twice. I think it was only our first experience there that the roast pork was crispy and really delicious, the next two times we went were a very disappointing experience, but they made up for it with the good soup and beef hor fun which Babe ordered.
Unlike our previous trips, this trip was slightly different, we decided to try out the places the Tier 0 group had tried in their previous trips, instead of stick to our list which by now was pretty outdated (2008 leh).
Though I'm not a chocolate milk person (actually I'm not much of a dessert person for that matter), it was the easiest thing on the list to find and hence found a Circle K mart selling the pack of milk. It's not bad, though I hardly drink chocolate milk so I couldn't make a comparison.
Following the next few days, I did try two other brands, Kowloon Dairy and Trappist Dairy. I thought it was better than the former but felt that Trappist, which was a random find, to be the best among the three.
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| Sidetrack from the HK trip: My best experience with drinking chocolate (not chocolate milk) was in Australia when I visited my brother back in 2010. He's definitely the chocolate head in our family. |
Shortly after, with our room checked in and bags put down, we headed for TST to grab a pair of tickets and found ourselves on the first ferry out to Macau.
By then it was pretty late though, and having little time, we had a few places in mind to go to.
First stop, the Fisherman's Wharf at Macau. It looked great online, pictures and what not, but boy was it boring, shops were under renovation, a huge chunk of the area was cordoned off and under construction...we had to make a huge detour round the construction barriers to reach the main road and barely saw anything worth hanging around for.
Not wanting to waste the trip there, I whipped out the Spinworkx yo-yo and took a few snaps...at least something productive was done in the area.
Our initial next stop was to the Ruins of St Paul...it was getting dark, I had forgotten that the sun sets at 6pm onwards in HK! I thought we still had time, but being in the middle of no where, it was hard getting a cab. We did pass by the Lady Buddha on our way to MGM, you can't tell from the image since I had to play with the shutter speed, but by now it was getting pretty grim, and the clouds at the back was a warning for rain that was probably to come.
By the time we reached the MGM, we concluded it was too late to visit the ruins...another time then. Our next stop was to check out the City of Dreams which was still under construction when I came to Macau in 2008.
After figuring out which bus to take from the MGM to City of Dreams, we made our way over to check out the Dragon's Treasure show.
It was quite a cheap thrill show...the ticket price wasn't very expensive, there was no story line and the whole thing lasted probably 10-15 minutes. But it was the display we were in, and the theme, dragons, that was something to catch while we were there!
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There were a few dragons, but cause it was dark, it was difficult getting a good photo, but cause they flew around the entire set, you found yourself looking all over the place trying to keep track of where they were. There were even points in the show where they'd breathe fire and a pipe in the wall will spit out a real ball of flame!
After the show, we were on our way to the Venetian, another location I wanted babe to check out cause of its grand ambience which was different from some of the other hotels. We went through a few casinos but since photos weren't allowed, I have none to share here. =(
Our next meal stop was another recommendation, Tai Lei Loi Kei Macau Pork Chop Buns! There was the original stall out near the ruins but we instead had the one at the Venetian since it was late.
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These were incredibly tender and succulent! The meat was well seasoned and my only annoyance was the piece of bone that seemed to get in the way some times when biting around the burger. But it was definitely a good burger worth sinking your teeth into...porky goodness satisfied!
We wandered around a bit more but soon it was time to go. I wanted to take Babe to one last place before we left, the Wynn to check out the Jellyfish Aquarium and Fountain to catch a show.
I read about the aquarium but cause I didn't have time to do a full research, I didn't know how big it was, so when we finally found it, it was like this:
This hole in the wall behind the reception counter...that was pretty much it. You can say I was sorely disappointed, but what to do, suck thumb loh.
As for the fountain, it probably couldn't compare to the fountain at the Bellagio in Vegas, but this was probably the next closest thing we could find.
After the show was over, we hopped on a cab and took the next ferry back to Hong Kong.
Remember the clouds looming from afar which I mentioned when taking photos of the Lady Buddha? It struck hard when we arrived at TST, and when boarding the cab back to the hotel, it rained so heavily, my entire back was soaked just walking from the pavement into the cab...it's been awhile since I got caught in rain this heavy, we don't get it like that back in Singapore that often either.
Day 1 was a a pretty good start to our trip. Will write about Day 2 shortly.
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