Showing posts with label yum cha. Show all posts
Showing posts with label yum cha. Show all posts

Tuesday, 18 December 2012

day 5

Festivities at Tseung Kwan O's Metro City mall

Some of the 11 dishes from yum cha with the gran

The oversized H&M shopping bag was so cute! It was just fun to wear

Doubt anyone could actually look that good with those undies ;(

Pho for tea, this was the lemongrass pork one

I was so excited when I saw Zara because it wasn't open at Metro City two years ago. So I had to purchase something!

HK$199... bit pricey for a tee but it's ZARA and MOUSTACHES! Mum didn't want me to get it so I was a little hesistant.

But then I found these cute ankle boots from the Zara A/W 2012 collection and fell in love! They're suede, like the ones I bought earlier today. The heel is easy to walk in and would be a nice transitioning shoe from autumn to winter.

Considering the amount of time we walked around the shops, I didn't end up getting that much. A shimmery sweater from H&M, ankle boots from ZARA and calf boots from some Korean based store.

Saturday, 15 December 2012

day 1 + 2

Lunch before the flight, SumoSalad caesar salad
 
Casually looking for cognac at duty free! Pestered mum to let me buy a $10 mini bottle of Johnnie Walker (just for kicks) but she was worried I'd smash it somewhere...

Shameless selfies before heading onto the plane!

"Lunch" which wasn't all that bad. Pasta with pumpkin tasted of something familiar that I'd cook, the mustard salad was interesting and my brother took my bread roll

"Dinner" was a cheese sandwich and fruit cake that is currently squashed at the bottom of my backpack, oops.
 
Watched American Reunion and Magic Mike. Both were perfectly inappropriate movies which I actually liked! Here's Alex Pettyfer shaving his legs.
 
Touched down in HK at 9:40pm, half an hour earlier than expected. Then we got hella worried that our luggage was lost in transit; luckily it wasn't. Got my brother to push me on a luggage trolley through the airport which was fun albeit childish! But I'm sure heaps of people secretly love speeding through airports like that :)

Took the taxi back to Lam Tin where my cousins live. This is the view out from their 7th level flat.
 
Yesterday I took photos from the AUD$6 all you can eat sushi train at Sham Sui Po but they're on another cousin's phone. Anyway, that was the cheapest meal ever!

Yum cha this morning with an aunt; Mong Kok. It was great! AUD$30 for a filling brunch for 4

Headed to a steak place for a rest after shopping for shoes. Go to MK if you're fine with people swarming around you as you shop. I only went there because there are heaps of Converse and Vans stockists. Oh yes, cheap steak meals! 

Rib eye medium rare

Look at that MK traffic!

This is my cousin's dog and it defecated on one of the beds :( Haha silly thing!
 
Yesterday's SaSa haul. I am soooo not done with that place! Makes me realise how high our Australian tariffs are on imports.
 

 The Hong Kong humidity is not doing my skin any favours and there also seems to be a lack of dry shampoo in this city. Perhaps I'll have to adjust and wash my hair everyday now! Since heading outside for the past day, I feel dirty even if it's the smoke wafting around the air making contact with my face. Although I'm no foreigner to HK, it's always quite the culture shock whenever I travel here. For instance, people walk across roads when trucks and taxis are making their way around the place. They don't exactly stop for passersby so it's up to you to watch where you're going! In such a fast-paced city, anyone can count themselves lucky to make it out in one piece with their dignity intact.