Hong Kong Day 2

Woke up super early on the 2nd day because wifey said "A lot of old people will come and eat one, then we will be the only young people there. Must be early otherwise no seat." The youngsters do not know what they are missing out! We went into a random restaurant like Dim Sum place in the Jordan area and got down to work. Slightly cheaper than the local Dim Sum but taste way better! Check it out! Only problem is .... how do you order the tea?

Xiao Long Bao!

Pai Kuat Oh!

Siew Mai! The brown thingy on top is abalone slices, can you believe it?!

Chee Cheong Fan! Light soya sauce style!

Ha Gao!

My all time favourite, Char Siew Bao!

Pi Dan Zhou!

Dim Sum got owned!

We observed the old people on how they used the tea to wash the dishes and thought ok this will be useful in the future. Next up we headed to this bus interchange/ pier to take a bus up to The Peak!

Upon reaching, we went to one of the must check out places in Hong Kong, the Madame Tussauds wax museum!

Wifey with Twins, Charlene and Gillian!

No wonder she's been avoiding me lately....

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Astro Maw!

My kopi buddy!

Madame Tassauds!

Taking lessons to achieve double Cs!

Cecilia Cheung

My idol

After we had fun with wax, we had lunch at a place called Pasta 360. Seems like a Atas version of the chain restaurants called Pasta House. The sign outside said 45% off if use Citibank card. An offer we cannot refuse! It was fantastic!

Esther's main dish. Some cream pasta thingy.

Hot stone pot with beef sauce and New Zealand beef. Yum!

Appetizers

Soup with "Soup Pi" as what the locals call it. I think it literally means soup skin.

With our tummies full and a smile on our face, we decided to take the tram down the mountain. Interesting how it uncomfortably faces a 45 degree angle but everyone is happily taking photos. Hehe.

Incoming!

Wife looking sexy as usual

We then took a bus back to the bus interchange and went to shop at the IFC supermarket. Wow! It seriously has a lot of stuff to buy. We then took a train to Causeway Bay to do little shopping and a lot of walking. It was raining, so I was moody and tired and didn't feel very well. Decided to whack a Mac's Shogun burger for dinner because it had pork patty in it!

I can live without beef, but not pork!

Stay tuned for Day 3, the Disney Adventure!

Hong Kong Day 1

Hi all! Just a little story on our short trip to Hong Kong, a little warm up for the big one next year! Anyway here it goes....

05:30 am Woke up, brush teeth, packed other last minute stuff.
06:30 am Esther's family was kind enough to come and fetch us to the airport. Good Job!
07:00 am We reached the airport and went to the terminal canteen to eat breakfast. The prices are very cheap if you work there! So get a friend who has one or get Esther's Dad!
08:00 am Boarded the plane, ready to go! Food was ok. Service was bad.

A little peek at the inside of Cathay Pacific Airlines

11:32ish am We finally reached our destination. No time difference so a + point there. Went to a place stated on this mini map given to us by the travel agency only to find out that it was the wrong place and then went to find the right guy. The guy at the rendezvous point was really polite. Told us to wait at the blue chairs until the rest came. Total of 5 groups were boarding the bus to various hotels.

Got me luggage from ze luggage pick up place.

12:00+ish pm We reached out accommodation. Not too shabby. Place was small but clean at least and the bell boys were HAWT according to the wifey.

Our safe haven for the next 4 days

12:30+ish pm We headed out to Nu Ren Jie 女人街 or at least tried to because we got lost after about 30 mins of walking. Wifey says it's been 3 years since she last came to HK. Hehe. Anyway we decided to head to the nearest MTR, the equivalent to our MRT in Singapore. We bought an Airport Express Octopus card if I remembered correctly which lets you travel for 3 days non stop and have 1 ride to the Airport for only 220 HK dollars! Collect back deposit of 50 dollars at the airport at the end of the trip. We took a train down to Mong Kok 旺角 station which was directly next to Nu Ren Jie. This place is a shopping heaven for the ladies. Lots of shoes, clothes, bags, you name it they have it at pretty reasonable prices and nice designs.

Wifey hopes to be Ambassador of MTR one day

After much walking we decided to head down to Jian Sha Zhui 尖沙咀 to see the Avenue of Stars. Wifey said it is a must to go otherwise people will call you a Sua Ku. This place has these concrete slabs on the floor where famous people come to have their hands imprinted in it and sign their names on it. We had quite a few, decided to choose one of the more famous people for sampling.

Famous Dude who got his hands dirty

Night scenery at the Avenue of Stars

There is a Morton's at HK too! Wonder if they sing Happy Birthday to you in Cantonese on your Birthday!

After enjoying the scenic night view and the sticky sea breeze, we decided to head to Nu Ren Jie 女人街 again to eat some stuff. We randomly came across this restaurant that served it's famous spicy and sour soup with 5 different types of noodles and you get to choose 1 main ingredient and top up more by forking out cash of course. You then get to choose the spiciness from Big, to Middle, to Small. I just doing a direct translation of the menu for the spiciness. Lol. The soup was superb with a generous serving of bean sprouts and preserved vegetables and I chose Pork Cutlet for my main which was really good. Wifey had beef and stomach. We both chose Small spicy. Test test first. The taste was just heavenly with the right amount of spiciness for me but not enough for the Wifey. Can be spicier she says. This is a must eat for all! Located along Soy Street in Nu Ren Jie.

***** A five star rating! I will definitely go back here to eat if I ever go to HK again

Stay tuned for Day 2 as it gets more exciting!

F1 2009

thanks to lock we got free tix to watch F1 Live at the singapore flyer... me and maw were talking abt going to watch this year after our wedding and it came true hehe...

watching the race on tv and live is very different.. the cars doesnt seems to move as fast but when u watch live it damn fast! and the view from the flyer is awesome! all the cars are below us and u get to see the super bright tracks... congrats hamilton for coming in 1st!

INGLORIOUS BASTERDS!

If you like Quentin Tarantino films, this is a must watch! The show was a little slow at the start, but it got better and ended really well! The filming style was very refreshing when they try to put something funny in a serious situation. Watch it if you can!

WHITEOUT

A thriller movie featuring Kate Beckinsale in a chase for a killer in a base camp in Antartica. Who is this mystery man? What is his motive? I watched this show and I felt I wasted my money even at a discounted price. Unless you like to watch and guess what's going on in the snow, I suggest you give this a miss.

We are married!

finally after 1 yr plus of planning and preparation, the day has come! the day passed super fast.. it was over before we realized it... it was a tiring day for all of us... i would like to thanks everyone who has helped us out in one way or another, regardless how small it is... it's not easy without the help given especially the xiong dis and jie meis who followed us all the way from morning to night...

so glad everything went well although there were small hiccups here and there... and i'm officially Mrs Chong (sounds old thou)! :p

G FORCE!

Having used to own 5 guinea pigs ourselves, this show was a must watch for us! The guinea pigs were super cute in this movie and we were lucky ours couldn't do what you see in this movie! A nice family show that I hope does not encourage young kids to buy guinea pigs on the whim. Very entertaining. A must watch for all furry creature lovers!

Album Layout confirmed!

juz confirmed our album layout with derrick after some touch up, he said will take ard 2 weeks to print... another thing down... so many things to prepare juz for one day... been so bz the past few weeks with the preparation and now it's down to less than 3 weeks...

having mixed feeling now... one side of me feeling excited and the other feeling abit scare as to how life will be after wedding... we will be really on our own... have to wash own clothes, eat own meals.. no more clothes washed and food ready when we back from work...

time pass so fast... i remember when i started this blog it was like 1 yr 8 mths to go... and now to be exact... counting down 17 days... oh my!

Where got ghost?

You must be wondering why we are watching a Jack Neo movie.....well we had a one-for-one GV ticket because Esther had to grow one year older in the month of August and the offer was only valid for movies shown 2 weeks ago. We wanted to watch The Proposal as we heard lots of good comments from our friends. Anyway, the movie wasn't too bad and as usual, unless you understand a substantial amount of Hokkien you probably won't catch half the jokes as the english translation is a bit off. We had a surprise when the third short story was actually a continutation of Money No Enough 2. To be honest, I actually like his movies because of the local humour and the moral behind some of the shows. Watch it if you want some laughs!

THE Final Destination

Hi all! Been a long while since we posted anything due to hectic wedding preparations! Yes 2 more weeks++, we are feeling a little bit excited and nervous at the same time. Despite the preparations we took some time off to catch this movie with Lock and Felicia(Thanks guys for the $7.50 tickets, inspired to sign up HSBC card) This movie is really funny and entertaining with more gruesome scenes as compared to the earlier Final Destinations, but we still preferred FD3, the one with the roller coaster! Go watch it if you want to see people die in all sorts of funny ways, I know Esther loved it. LOL. Death definitely has a sense of humour....

Pre-Wedding Photos...

got our photos from derrick on sat... and we have to choose like 50-80 photos out of the 1000+ photos! we will like to thanks derrick for making the photoshoot an enjoyable one and not forgetting adrian for helping and following us around... he took quite a bit of photos too...

First cooking in our new house...

maw was asking wat shld we have for dinner and came up with an idea to buy ingredients back and cook his special maggi mee hehe... went ntuc to buy the ingredients which consists of chicken breast, prawns, white cabbage, button mushrooms and not forgetting the korean instant noodles...

look at the chef at work! do not disturb hehe...

ta da!