So since I've decided to make a conscious effort in recording my trips, here it goes.
Day 1.
We arrived in HK around 6pm, all hungry and irritated and extremely tired. Nothing like a bunch of fidgety and loud uncles who like to intrude on your limited leg space to start your trip. Haha. Took a bus to the nearest MTR station, armed ourselves with an Octopus card (their EZ link card) and made our way to Shenzhen.
Took a train to Luo Wu where we crossed the border. That was also my cue to start carrying my backpack in front of me. I was super paranoid that my bag will be slashed and my passport taken away from me please.
Cabbed to our hotel, settled down, and went out for dinner. We weren't brave enough to try out the local food so we went to Ajisen. Maybe it was because of the exhaustion, but it was sooo good. We had the exact same thing twice in the three nights we spent there.
Day 2-3.
Honestly, I don't even remember exactly what we did other than shop and shop and shop some more. On the third night I told Chong Ning, "I never thought I would say this but I think I've had enough of shopping." At one point I developed a headache during the Nth shopping trip for the day. Fo' real.
The only downside is that we couldn't try on most of our purchases because the shops didn't allow it. But our hotel was just across the street, so...we didn't really mind la.
Highlights of Shenzhen: Seeing a little boy peeing at the sidewalk of the main streets.
This was what I told Huihui whilst bolting away from said peeing boy. "I thought it was his finger lor!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"......yup.
Day 4.
On the train back to HK
Super duper small. For 3 nights, I wasn't entirely sure if I washed my hair properly because I couldn't fully extend my arms in the toilet. But it was clean and comfortable though, so no complaints!
Settled down and headed out for lunch at Tsui Wah where I had the greatest custard bun ever. Toasted bun + butter + condense milk drenched all over it = the bomb diggity.
Shopped at Langham Mall (?) where they stock every skincare/beauty brand that ever existed. They even have Monki and H&M! Monki had already started selling A/W clothes so spent most of our time browsing through the sale rack in H&M.
Day 5.
Took a train to Tsim Sha Tsui where we went to this beauty/medical dispensary that has the lowest prices for beauty brands in HK. Everything there was at least 50% off the price in SG, so it was little wonder why the place was so friggin' swamped.
At one point I heard a guy saying "Yao mm yao gam kwa zhung ah" whilst trying not to loose his ecstatic girlfriend in the shop. Lol.
Also, I bought 鸡蛋仔 twice in under 5 minutes because I dropped my 1/4 eaten one in a clothing store. Yea, I brought my smoothness overseas. Freshly made 鸡蛋仔 were damn good! Sorta like pandan waffles, but less oily, more crispy on the outside, and fluffier on the inside.
Walked to the ferry terminal where Lin Feng and Linda Chung met in Ka Hou Yuet Yun. Told Huihui that they might play the chorus of 愛不疚 when you board the boat. Imagine how cool it would be if you board the boat and suddenly the speakers go "Fong sao, fong hoi sor yao~~".
Took the ferry to Central, which was pretty cool. They had shut off an entire block's worth of roads and the place was just PACKED with maids. Like for real the maids were just laying on cardboard boxes out on the roads and lepaking. I even saw a group of maids giving each other pedicures outside a Yves Saint Laurent store.
At this point we were pretty much done with walking already. I severely severely underestimated the amount of walking needed to be done in HK. Settled for the first restaurant we came across just so we could rest our feet.
Went over to the gigantic Forever 21, which by the way was more expensive than the online prices, before we headed home.
Too damn tired to remember anything else we did.
Day 6.
Chong Ning decided to stay home because she went to Macau before, so it was just Huihui and I!
Had dessert for breakfast at 许留山 where we had mango with mango juice and glutinous rice balls. The glutinous rice balls were pretty meh, but the mango juice was just awesome. The juice was more like puree and it was 100% mango with every mouth. So good.
Headed to Tsim Sha Tsui again to get more stuff, where we walked a ton more to the China Ferry Terminal and bought tickets to Macau.
Doremon display at the ferry terminal.
We might look super psyched in the photo above but honestly the weather was a killer and in reality, this was my face most of the time.
I told Huihui this "Quick take a photo of my buey song face to remind us of the super zhua weather."
Took a 1/2 hour cab ride from the main island to Coloane island, where we went up a mountain to eat at the famous Fernando's Restaurant! Read so many good reviews online about how awesome their Portuguese cuisine was and we weren't disappointed.
IT WAS SO SO SO SOOOOO GOOD.
I ordered a charcoal barbecued 1/2 chicken and Huihui ordered a fried pork steak smothered in garlic sauce.
Wa piang the chicken skin tasted like ba kwa for goodness sake. How is it possible!?!? I was super tempted to order the roasted pork after polishing off my chicken and 1/4 of Huihui's pork steak, but my bursting stomach resisted.
This was the look on my face after the very very satisfying meal.
Damn it the photos are making me super hungry right now.
Took a bus down the mountain back to the main island of Macau. Went to Koi Kee to buy a ton of 老婆饼，杏仁饼，凤梨酥...etc to lug back to HK. Just for 老婆饼, we bought 10 boxes. 10. Who does that?
Huihui figured out how to read the bus directory and got us back to the ferry terminal just in time for the 8pm departure, and the most hilarious thing happened while we were waiting to board.
The seats were back facing each other and Huihui was leaning a little too far back, so I told her to be careful just in case she bumps into the person sitting behind her.
The following scenario ensues.
Me: Eh don't lean too far back. Got people.
Hui: Huh? *Turns around* Oh chey I thought it was some random sweaty guy. Ang moh never mind la!
And then she tries to convince me that everything he does is less annoying than an average person because he is Caucasian. Lolol.
Me: Look at your ang moh's socks. Mid calf and stripey.
Hui: It's a fashion statement.
Me: What if it's a local wearing that?
Hui:...........AA.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.
Pictures when we were on the ferry back to HK!
Okay the last photo might be a little too act cute but I was just trying to relieve my neo-print days.
Reached the ferry terminal, found the MTR station and went back to our apartment.
Packed our luggage and passed out. Had to wake up early for dim sum!
Day 7.
Woke up friggin' diggity early to queue up for the famous Tim Ho Wan! Queued for about 45 minutes before we were let in and it was all worth it.
The char siew bao.......god. It was like they were baked with fairy dust and blessed by angels before they were served. Same goes for the har kaw and siew mai and cheong fun, which were stuffed with so. many. fresh. prawns. I could eat there everyday for the rest of my life.
Went back to our apartment, nua-ed till 1ish before we took a bus to the airport where we...
My awesome camera skills with Chong Ning!
....almost missed our boarding time and got stranded. I don't even know how that happened because we were 3 hours early lor!
But somewhere along me watching a bunch of youtube videos while waiting for the gang to finish browsing through duty free stores, and Huihui queuing for MacDonalds', we almost missed the final call of our flight. Hahaha.
But after a lot of sprinting and cursing and praying, we didn't! So lucky us!!!
Super-heng-we-didn't-miss-our-flight-faces.
Sat in front of a bunch of hyper active kids who have a penchant for kicking so....the flight back wasn't exactly the most comfortable.
Reached SG at 10pm-ish, bought some more stuff at the duty free shop, bought my hungry ass a McSpicy and shared a cab home with Huihui.
Passed out after I mildly unpacked.
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Long ass post that concludes my 7-days trip in SZ-HK-MC-HK.
4 more days till my 2 day school week starts! 0830-1300, Tuesday and Saturday.
Will be stoked. As soon as I haul my ass out of the holiday mood.
Yeahhhhhhhhhhhh.
