Coming Soon-My trip to picturesque Guilin & Yangshuo

Coming soon- Guilin, China
One of the beautiful places in china.

*things i did, places i went* food i ate *places for shopping
with honest review-and pictures.

Malaysia Airlines Travel Fair till 7th March

Around this time, is where all the travel fair starts... First up,normally we have the Malaysia Airlines Travel Fair. They started it a few years back, everyone time a week or 2 before Matta Fair.

This time I was eagerly waiting for Malaysia Airlines Travel Fair as they have cheap fares for their destinations. This time round, it wasn't as big as they usually have it. So I was dissapointed! What was even more dissapointing are the fares, it is not as cheap at last year... Aiyah... What for have the fair, if you are not planning on giving cheap rates. Is it a marketing gimmick? to boost sales? to compete with Air Asia?

Really dissapointed Malaysia Airlines!

Now have to wait for Matta Fair or Air Asia to give really good fares.

Stunning Dim Sum Restaurant- with equal stunning price

One of the restaurant that we went is this stunning dim sum restaurant in Time Square Hong Kong. Stunning Restaurant-match with Stunning Price, therefore, the price for the food in this Restaurant is expensive too. So be careful! Make sure you know the price before ordering. We order approximately 10 plates of dim sum including pau came up to RM 500+. That is how expensive it is. But the shop is famous and full of people. Quite many of the dim sum though is not like the usual type that you eat in other restaurant. They have the unique selection and new choices of dimsum.

The deco of the restaurant.

The chairs covered with cloth.

The beautiful lights of the restaurant adding to the ambience of the place.

The different types of food.

The "Polo" Pau .

The Menu.

Vegetable with Ginger.

Here is the list of price. If you see on Saturday or Sunday the prices are more expensive.

My rating: Definitely a delicious restaurant, but a hole in the pocket because of the pricey food. Ambience- it very very romantic restaurant with the deco adding to its ambience. Very beautiful setting.

I would recommend this restaurant, but save all your money first before going to this restaurant.

The Fuzzy Peak

The next morning, we to the local char chan teng to have breakfast, they had some interesting breakfast, but their dan tart (egg tart) was fabulous, so good! and their milk tea was good too. Their menu for breakfast, was somehow interesting, they had instant noodle with ham, mix of western and chinese.

After breakfast, we went to the famous peak, but as you can see, it was so misty that we couldn't take any pictures, and it was freezing cold.

this picture is to show you the whole of hong kong! opps, nothing is there, because of the mist!

Ok finally, buildings on a not clear day.

it wasn't such a good time to go during march, or the time that we went, but at least we saw some building and the weather was nice.

Yuckie Dinner

After than awesome dessert at Hui lau shan, it was time to eat dinner, why do we go hungry so fast in hong kong?

I would say this is the worst restaurant that I have tasted, low quality, not nice at all. It was somewhere in ladies market area. Can't even find a dish that is nice to recommend, not a single one. I didn't even take note of the food nor the restaurant. First time, I didn't like what I ate in hong kong.

Would never ever ever ever go back to that restaurant again.

Famous Street & Dessert

Is time to wander around the famous shopping malls, and the famous streets. we went to time square, and to the shopping malls nearby like Sogo. I was looking for clothings, cheap clothing, I guess time square was not the right place to look for cheap clothings nor sogo. All branded stuff. I have this craze for japanese things for example: clothing, sweets etc, i saw a mall that is next to sogo (have to cross a street) that I'm able to find Japanese clothing but unfortunately it is out of my budget (way out). as for japanese sweets, i found it in the lower ground of sogo, full of japanese sweets, but not cheap, well, cheaper than flying to japan to get the sweets.

As you are surrounded with high priced branded stuff- shopping malls, there is a small market that is hidden in between shopping malls, that you can bargain to buy clothing, socks. i can't exactly describe the place.

Full of people.

We decided times square area was not our type, we took the MRT and walk on to look for a place that was recommend for cheap stuff. Cheap stuff, we found but a little old fashioned. As we were looking for the exact street, we ran out of time. Wish we had more time, we wanted to find the exact street as it will lead to wholesale outlets for clothing. Aiyah!!

There we landed in the most famous and recommended area, ladies market. We were given two hours to spend on the street. We went up and down, and we didn't even stop to bargain, the things there was repetitive as all markets are, but I thought the clothing there was a little old fashion. As I have read, from other places, it was suppose to be a place where teenagers hang out. Quickly we went from top to bottom of the street, then we wanted to look for the next suggested street Fa Yuen Street, but was not able to find it, or found it similar to Ladies market. Was dissapointed! Went through all the shopping mall on Nathan road, the best for me was Mongkok Argyle Centre, why? because I bought something, haha!

after two hours, decided to eat dessert, as it was recommended by forumers. I chose the famous Hui Lau Shan. Yahoo! Dessert....

X.O raddish cake

My favourite, mango with tong yuen. Even when I back in my home country, I still have a craving for it ever so often. The mango that they use is fresh mango, that's why there are famous, i think they import it from Phillipines. Love it, mouthwatering dessert. Highly recommended, especially for those who have a spot for mango.

Lunch- Wan Tan Mee

Isn't my tummy, a bit too much, just after lunch and a brisk walk near stanley bay and apleichau, my tummy yearns for more food. What more? This time, I was brought to Wan Tan Mee shop, I think it is famous, as you can see, that is the name of the restaurant "zhen dou"(For those who can read chinese) for those who can't read their shop is called Tasty Congee & Noodle Wantun Shop, let's taste the difference between Hong Kong wan tan mee and Malaysia's or Singapore's.

the table setting.

the food, wantan mee, vegetables, and beef noodles.

a close up pictures of the food

chee cheong fun with pork

wantan mee soup

and lastly fried devils (yao zha guai) with chee cheong fun.

My taste buds review:dry wantan mee was rather different from the one that i'm use to eating, the wantan mee that I eat back home, is full of black sauce, look at the Wantan mee in hong kong not a single spot of black sauce. Not bad. You can taste the noodle even more, they serve it with pork. maybe i'm used to the black sauce one back home. the cheong fun, which i eat back home is swimming in soya sauce, but in hong kong it is not, the sauce is put seperately. I don't mind it. Love the one back home better. sorry hong kong folks, no offense. Then as for the wantan soup, i like the dry wantan mee better than the soup. the yao zha guai it has a unique taste, but dip in in the soya sauce and you can taste different yao zha guai. did not love it that much. so so...

this shop can be quite expensive, please do prepare a little more cash than usual.

According to their business card, they have 4 outlet, or they may have only have place to put four address, one is in Happy Valley(which I went to), Central Shop, Telfored Shop (Kowloon) and Hung Hom Shop.

Stanley Bay & Hong Kong Boats

Right after a full breakfast, it was time to go sightseeing. I went to the famous stanley bay,as it was recommended by other travellers. They had market-like shops, but I was told that it was mainly for the tourist and for foreigners. It is more expensive than usual, so be sure to bargain.
I went to Hong Kong in March, so it was a cold and wet season, we needed umbrellas as it started to drizzle and rain everyday, when we were there. Much to our dismay, but the food quality was not affected by it.

Stanley bay, has quite nice view.

This is westernise street, with a few western shops, that makes you think that you are in europe.

Nice signboard that makes to help you with direction.

Breakfast-Dim Sum

Early Morning, First thing we woke up, we wanted to taste the authentic Hong Kong dim sum.
Wondered how different it would be from our Malaysian dim sum. My uncle drove us to the nearest local dim sum restaurant. It wasn't a famous restaurant, just an ordinary restaurant, but we wanted to taste Hong Kong dim sum so badly that we didn't care whether it was a famous restaurant. Anyway, as we walk in, we saw all the local grandpa grandma eating their breakfast, all eyes were looking at us, and following us as we sat down, I think there were surprised to see us come from out of no where and not someone they know. We felt a bit uncomfortable at first, with everyone staring at us, as if we landed on another planet, but when we the food arrived, we forgot about all the people staring at us. Don't worry, not all Hong Kong restaurant are like that, or I can say this is the only restaurant that have people staring at you.

The porridge, porridge with century egg, the porridge is so smooth and tasty, you know that it has bee cooked for hours and all the ingredients to cook this porridge was just right, not to salty.

Chee Cheong Fun, It has a different taste from the one that I'm used to eating back home. Not bad. It has a similar taste to the Chee Cheong Fun they have in Canton-I.

Tried their bao(dumpling), and their har gao (prawn dim sum). It was alright. But look at the porridge---finished, gone! I could practically lick the whole bowl.

Siew Mai (Pork dim sum)

Char Siew Pao (pork dumpling)

Ham Dan Pao (Dumpling with Salted Egg)

Raddish Cake, Compared to the one back home, I love the one at home better.

I would recommend this shop, because other than the porridge the rest was nothing special. The rest of the days in Hong Kong, I found better Dim sum shops.