Sunday, 16 December 2012

day 3


Today was a bit of a lazy day, starting from waking up at almost noon. Headed to Kai Tin Shopping Centre for some window shopping and found some nice food!
 
Garlic buns, cheese bun, coconut twist... all so tasty. Found black sesame soy milk at the supermarket and lemonade for HK$5

On the bus ride home, look at all those living quarters!

Stationery haul HK$800, all set for uni and school!

Dog nuzzling in my crotch, good stuff! 



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.

Tuesday, 11 December 2012

strangers in bookshops

Today's weather remained wintry and on the verge of raining so eating warm food was a no-brainer. I returned to Din Tai Fung, World Square for the second time ever and I can stress that the experience was even better. For one, I tried new things - the Taro icecream, vegetable & pork dumpling in spicy sauce and Shanghainese drunken chicken. This time I saw how impressive the details in the decor were, as I was sitting in the lower area. The service was as great as my November trip to the restaurant, the staff are so attentive and my first dish arrived in no more than 2 minutes.

Blue Coral Italian Soda 


Hot and Sour Soup

Shanghainese style drunken chicken

Pork & vegetable wonton in a spicy sauce

Xiao Long Bao (Pork soup dumpling)

Vegetable & pork jiao zi
Taro icecream

Since I never get to go to Starbucks, I went to get a drink. They had such interesting festive drinks and I chose the Gingerbread Latte. Don't think I'd get it again because I couldn't pinpoint the strong spices that were in it. Too strong for my liking.

Also made a trip to Dymocks and coincidentally they had a 3 for 2 sale on pretty much all the books so I grabbed more Penguin Classics to expand my collection! Finally I have The Beautiful and Damned.

Sunday, 9 December 2012

Sunday things

Just because a Chinese lunch is a super new thing. 



All the usual Sunday things happened today, including grocery shopping which I really seem to enjoy. All the Lindt chocolate was on sale so I grabbed a couple for the flight!

Saturday, 8 December 2012

out for dinner

I only just discovered at dinner that today was not Sunday, but Saturday! Still very much confused as to why all the usual 'Sunday' things happened today to make me think it was indeed Sunday. I guess this is what an extended holiday does to me... I've lost track of the time and day. Yes, crazy. Onto something I am more certain about - dinner was lovely. We went to New Empress Chinese Restaurant, West Ryde before heading to the nearby McDonald's for dessert.
Poring over the menu


Deep fried crisp skin chicken is always a winner

They call this rainbow steak!

Combination tofu hot pot


Pipis in black bean sauce; amazing

Not mine :)

The new Oreo sundae was delicious!

I'm not an OOTD kind of person but as for OOTN... I kept it casual and comfy. Wore my neon bag out for the first time, it's a super soft material. 

Because I'm an amazing poser/self-timer, you can see the black thongs that I'm wearing :)