Hong Kong Trip (Day 2)

We had a city tour on our 2nd day as part of the Free & Easy package. We started the day at 7am with a good breakfast at a Dim Sum restaurant. The food was fantastic but the portion was a bit small.

Our 1st stop was at Repulse Bay, a beach situated in a rich man's land. The top 10 richest Hong kong people live in some of the houses behind us. Jackie Chan lives in one of those too. The property prices here are as crazy as Singapore's car prices. There's also a famous temple beside the beach.
Everyone was queuing up to touch the God of Wealth so we took our S$50 to rub some wealth into our pockets too. We wanted to use the HK$ at 1st but realised that having a windfall in HK$ isn't quite as useful as in S$. Hopefully, the God of Wealth recognise our currency. LOL!






Our next stop was Aberdeen. We took a ride around the harbour on fisherman's boat and tour the harbour for 25 mins. It was starting to drizzle a bit and our tour guide informed us of an approaching typhoon now blowing in the Philippines. Hong Kong is a typhoon prone region. As a result, Aberdeen Harbour was set as a designated cover for the 7000 odd fishing community that lived on the seas in the event of a typhoon.The Famous Jumbo seafood restaurant is also anchored here. Some of the rich's private boats are also anchored and maintained here. Apparently, the rich's life creates so much interest here that they are mentioned so very often on our tour.

This type of free tour of course comes at the expense of many side shopping trips to jewellery and herbs shop. If not, where do they earn the commission? We had lunch at some restaurant near a shopping district. Due to the bad weather, we were informed that the cable car at Ngong Ping halted operation and the fire service was there to free someone stuck on the ride. Lucky the cable car was in business by 3pm when we reached. The fog though was quite a spoiler though.

It would have been a beautiful sight if it was a clear day. We saw the Hong Kong airport from the cable car before entering into the fog. Maybe it was just the wrong season to visit. Ended the tour on Lantau island and shop at the Citygate Outlets. Dear got a few bargains for office wear at Esprit Outlets. Dear and I parted with Marcus and Sarah as they continued their spending spree. LOL! Would had stay longer but need to meet Dong on Hong Kong Island and we were running late.

Met Dong at Central MTR and he bought to his place for a look. Took the World's longest Escalator. Pretty cool! It's downward moving in the morning and upward moving for the rest of the day. Saves a lot of climbing. It also by passes a lot of the "happening" areas which Dong was living at. Pretty much like Clarke Quay with lots of pubs. We saw his apartment and it was hardly bigger than my bedroom.

Dong brought us to a roadside stall to try the authentic way of eating Wanton mee. We also order some black sesame dessert and another dessert which we couldn't pronounce. Dong tried his cantonese on the stall lady and he was pretty good. Was able to converse with the lady other than the part where we couldn't understand the lady asking if we want oyster sauce. After that, we meet with Dong's other group of friends who were there to visit as well. Surprisingly, someone in the group knows dear and i know another guy formerly from my secondary school as well. Talk about small world... We took a tram (Yes! authentic shanghai style, pictures in the next post) to Causeway Bay where Dong said it's where the Hong Kong youths hang out. Aijia spotted the legendary mango dessert and it was damn good! We thanked Dong for the meals and had to leave early because we need to catch the public transport back to the hotel which took us a freaking 1 hour. More to follow...

Hong Kong Trip Day 1