Hong Kong: Random Shots

Macau: Tips Ferry, Sims, CAsino

If you taking ferry to Macau, I will suggest you book early.

For people departing at Tsim Sham Tsui
Can walk from Tsim Sha Tsui exit A1 and walk towards canton road and then turn right till you see a junction and cross diagonal to the China Hong Kong city.
Turbojet from Tsim Sha Tsui and Central
cotaijet Tsim Shan Tsui
First ferry Central
Ferry from Hong Kong airport

For the first class, a simple meal will be provided and the seats will be more spacious.

For people, who want a Sim card. There are vending machines selling Sim at the ferry terminal at MAcau.

There are also buses which you can take to Casino of your choice for free. There are buses linking each casino and sometimes to places of interest. Check with the staff at the casino. I took the public bus around at times.
I visited Venetian Macao, it supposed to be the largest in the world with a canal.

Minimum bet for jackpot starts from hk$0.05. No worries for, people who are not risk taking and just want to pull the jackpot machines.

Just insert you dollar notes, when you tired of the machine or out of luck, just collect your money and move on to the next one. You can redeem the money at those big machines that look like ATM.

Ruins of St. Paul's Cathedral

Please go there with an empty stomach. Lots of samples for you to try. Try before buying. 

But for Buddhists, ask before you try the bak kwa as it may be beef bak kwa.

They are even piping hot seaweed egg rolls to try out.

Try the Portuguese egg tarts too.

Avoid the pork bun which the stall has a tv showing some idol dramas and idols visiting the stall. The pork is hard and bland. Definitely not recommended.

hong Kong : Ap Liu street 鴨寮

Step out to Ap Liu street and you will find stalls selling handphone cases and screen protector. I am not sure about the quality but the price and variety seems good.

We went up the 北河街市政大廈, it was a wet market.

You see live chickens, vegetables and fruits.

If you are not into this, just walk at ground level.

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There are almost no shopping for clothes and shoes here.

Good for Buying fruits, vegetables, pastries and dried goods.

Trying to understand the cantonese.

Dried Starfish for sale.

Lots of dried goods for sale.

Dried oyster, mushrooms, fish, cuttlefish, sea cucumber, ikan bilis and a lot more.

Quite amazed at their collection of dried goods. 

their dried shrimps have small, medium, large. 

As big the prawn we see in the wanton in Hong Kong. (bottom right photo)

They even have  dried duck wings. (middle right photo)

Lot of bakeries.

My parents bought the wife's biscuit from here and I enjoyed my mango desserts

Garang Guni?

SEcond hand market.

Hong Kong : Christmas

 Christmas in Hong Kong

  

isquare

Citygates

 

harbourcity

Lee gardens at Causeway bay

Lee gardens at Causeway bay

Sky garden at lee gardens. Nothing much to see.

Hong Kong Winterfest 2012.

Tiffany & co christmas. 

Just right beside central station, exit K.

Lego Christmas at times square

 Tsim sha Tsui

 Langham Place

Random places

Hong kong : Shopping at pharmacy, h&M, esprit and tips

Shopping at H&M. According to people, H&M is cheaper and the variety is better at Hong Kong. I am not really sure about that as I don't visit Singapore H&M often.

I visited two branches in Singapore, the one at Langham place and the other one at Tsui Sha Tsui, at Canton Road.

The one at Tsim Sha Tsui is definitely bigger with teenagers and kid's clothings, will definitely recommended that. Petite girls can buy from the teenages' range too.

But Langam Place has freebies and privileges for tourist at other shops, not for H&M. I received a small laneign sample this time.

Hong KOng is full of shops selling beauty products and makeup.

I was attracted to Sanrio stuff so I bought some.

My mum bought Olay and Loreal stuff at 40-50% cheaper than Singapore price.

2B slimming products are cheaper in Hong Kong too.

Meiji collagen can be bought at hk$188, which is around $30. I think in Singapore, it retails for around $60.

Lung Shing Pharmacy 龍城大藥房.

28 Granville Rd Tsim Sha Tsui b2 exit. around 5-10minutes walk.

They have a larger variety and supposedly cheaper Sasa and Bonjour,hence the place is very very crowded with locals and foreigners. I was pushed around quite often.

Not allowed to try the perfumes, so try it elsewhere and buy it from here.

We bought shu Uemera makeup base at 40% cheaper compared to Singapore price.

The queue is super long. Take turns to queue and shop.The more expensive and branded products (clinque, estee lauder, laneign, shu uemera and etc) and perfumes are kept at the counter,so plan what you are going to buy and take notes of prices at Bonjour or other shops before coming here to buy as you do not want to come here and queue again.

The people here are not exactly friendly or helpful.

Most important, payment in cash only.

Foudn this sportshouse which sell sports products at quite good price. The cons, limited size, the shoes I like do not have my size.

Passed by it while walking to avenue of stars using the underpass from sheraton

sportshouse

Cute things to buy.

Esprit factory outlets. 

I am not a fan of Esprit but the price is much cheaper than singapore. A good place to get basic and good quality stuff.

Esprit was having an extra 40% for some items, minimum 3 items purchased.

I managed to get Esprit tee at s$10, shorts and denim skirts at around S$20+.

I think is a good buy as the quality is good. 

Kai Seng Commercial Centre,4-6 Hankow Road, Tsim Sha Tsui, Kowloon, Hong Kong

Opening Hours Daily: 10am - 10:30pm

MTR to Tsim Sha Tsui Station (Exit E)

Hollywood Plaza, 610 Nathan Road, Mong Kok, Kowloon, Hong Kong

Opening Hours 11am - 11pm, Monday - Thursday; 11am - Midnight, Friday - Sunday

Other outlets are at 

Citygates at Tung Chung top floor

 China Hongkong city (FErry terminal to Macau) at 1st floor and 3rd floor.

Citygates outlet used to be favourite, now it is getting very crowded and messy

There are 1 outlet at north point and another at new terrorities.

BRanded goods should be cheaper in Hong Kong due to favourable exchange rate and also  no tax is being charged.

However, do your research before buying.

Hong kong has a lot big shopping malls, like harbour city, times squares. Most of them have discount or privileges for tourist. Check with the information counter before making your purchases. 

Mango and Zara should be cheaper in Hong kong too.

and if you are going to markets, fa yeun, mongkok, temple street or ya liu street. Remember to be thicked skinned and bargain.

I did not manage to visit Lai Chi Kok, the wholesale fashion market as they were closed on the day I visited, Sunday.

Have fun. :D

Remember to bring your own recyclable shopping bags as they do charge for shopping bags in hong kong

Cheap shopping.

shopping at Fa Yeun street and temple street

shopping at mongkok: Ladies market and Argyle

Apliu Street (鴨寮)

Hong kong : Macdonalds and KFC

I never try but I just find the Ginerbread latte cute.

I visited KFC, because my dad is a fan of KFC. It is worth going to as there are so many things to try out which is not available in Singapore.
They have the eight layers burger,  flava roast chicken burger with bacon, hot wings with 3 flavour, mushroom rice, shark fins soup,baked chicken, criton hot tea.
The 3 flavour differs by a bit, the shark fins soup is a bit too salty.
The rest is good. My favourite is hot wings and the baked chicken.
They provide plastic gloves for people who ordered the fried chicken.

Hong Kong: Desserts 坤記糕品 Maxim Bakery

Passed by this shop while walking from 強記飯店 Keung Kee Meat shop to Times square.

Traditional Desserts. My mum said this is better as it is more solid and scrunchy.

It is at canal east road. After you cross the bridge, where people are holding slippers and helping you hit the little people in you life.

坤記糕品

深水埗北河街，地鐵 B2 出口一出轉右就是

Sham Shui Po, Exit B2 turn right. Traditional food.
My first visit

Bought this from the bakery beside my hotel, Cityview.

It is like mochi skin with mango and cream inside. I like.

Another MAngo snack bought at bakery at Sham Shui Po.

MAngo at hong Kong taste good everywhere.

I am a fan of Maxim chiffon bread.

I will cart home a big bag of it every time I am there.

I like the texture.

This texture is soft and fluffy. I usually buy at the airport and hand carry it up the plane. Maxim confectionery is at the arrival hall.

Sadly, this time round, the shop ran out of this the bread. :(

My parents prefer to buy the wife's biscuit from local bakery as it is cheaper and also fresher.

They will go around and try out different bakeries around the neighbourhood where we are staying and buy from the one that suit their platter the most.

The variety definitely lose out to the famous brands as they only have the traditional flavour, packaging wise is also not as nice.

We brought our own boxes to pack the biscuits and then slot them in between our clothes in our big check-in luggages. Hand carry is possible too. We did not bring enough boxes, so I dropped by Jusco and bought a hk$12 big plastic box to store the biscuit.

Jusco living is a shop that sell almost everything at hk$12.

The good thing is you can choose the kind of biscuit you like, sweetness and texture. It is very cheap hk$5 for two and they are like palm-sized.

Should be able to keep them for a few days like normal pastries. My mum bought this to my relatives' houses and they love it too. And store them in the fridge and heat up if you are worried about keeping them out in the open in singapore hot and humid weather.

Wanted to go Tim Ho Wan for breakfast but it opened at 10am.

bought a rice roll with crispy you tiao and pork floss for breakfast at a shop near cityview.

Yummy.