Babymoon - Hong Kong Day 3

3rd day in Hong Kong and not to be outdone by the china chinese. I'm here 9am queuing outside Australian Diary Milk - YES!! I AM GOING TO GET MY MILK PUDDING IF NOT IM NOT LEAVING HK!

that's me in the queue...and you want to know where am I in the queue? look at the photo below.

 the queue was amazingly long....and stretch across the road on the left to the next lane.

YES! finally I'm in the stall and we ordered 2 standard breakfast with scrambled eggs and 1 almond egg pudding for myself.

then we went to SOHO again as i was still deciding whether to get a bicycle horn from HOMELESS for Jules and also I wanted to eat the Kau Kee Beef Noodles.
Alamak.
when I got there, the store wasn't even opened and there was a snaking queue for the beef noodles!!!!
EEKS!!!!

so i got into HOMELESS, the aircon was great!! Oh, i didn't mention, the weather here in HK is freaking hot!!! WHAT MID AUTUMN festival...it's like still HOT HOT summer.
It's about 33degs...here.

Yes i bought the bicycle horn for my son and that was about it.
Went down to this new furniture shop called Aluminium and bought a wool carpet, round shaped. Really cute and colourful.
Skipped Yung Kee Roasted meat because I had a few times and I didn't have any craving for it.

We walked back to IFC mall and visited Tim Ho Wan to catch some Dim sum for lunch.
What is visiting HK without eating some Dim Sum yah?

look at this. Queue again.

ok pregnant mum really needs to sit. BTW. I'm not the only ones who are sitting around and waiting...after 45 mins of wait, I finally got a table! YAY!
we ordered siew mai, har kow, plate of veggies, meatballs, their signature baked char siew baos and papaya snow fungus dessert for me.

Tim Ho Wan now has 4 outlets in HK!! and another one is coming up soon. When i first visited HK, the first store was just behind my Stanford hotel...sigh...times have changed. The original store at Mongkok has closed down already and moved to Olympian City.

The rest of day 3 was just walking around all the markets again, ate my $2 cold noodles with octupus and finishing the night with Man Kah King Shao Bing.

yup.
in another 4 hours, I will be back at HK airport and in another 3 more hours, I will be back in SG.

i need another babymoon.

Babymoon - Hong Kong Day 2

Our 2nd day in Hongkong. This morning, we took the train down to Jordan because I wanted to eat the Australian Diary Milk Pudding but it's still closed!!! So i had no choice but to settle my stomach elsewhere, had the usual HK breakfast - instant noodles with luncheon meat and toast with egg on the side, washed down with a cuppa hot milk tea.

sigh, can't believe my luck. The Australian Diary Milk is closed for 2 days in a row.
after breakfast, I took the MTR to Tung Chung. Today we are suppose to sit the cable car at Ngong Ping and visit Tai-O.

Guess what!!!
The cable car is under service to 22nd Sept - which is the day that I'm leaving!!! *grumbles*
Hubs consoled me that it's a sign that we will have to come back to Hong Kong to do the cable car ride and visit Tai-O another time.

So i ended up shopping at Citygate outlet mall instead and bought baby rompers for our dear "turnip".
He's called "turnip" at the moment because he's about the size of a turnip.

after visiting the Citygate outlet mall, we made our way down to SOHO to see HOMELESS, GOD, Lyndust terrace to eat my egg tart and my favourite wanton noodle shop too - where the wanton are full and plump with prawns (not shrimps!) and the soup is so soulful that it comes in a very very small bowl and if you want a refill for the soup, you got to pay extra.

Lan Fong Yuen is another Cha Chan Teng which I want to visit on my next visit to Hong Kong...sigh.
I really have to return to HK again soon!!!

That night we just ate at a local Cha Chan Teng where hubs ordered a plate of char siew roasted pork rice while i had a bowl of plain congee and a plate of oyster sauce kai lan.

After dinner, we walked around Mongkok for awhile and we ate Fei Jie Snacks - ordered the sticks of cuttlefish, intestines big and small and innards which hubs passed all to me. Plus a bowl of spicy fishballs and a bowl of daikon and we called it a night.

Babymoon - Hongkong Day 1

For those who aren't parents yet, Babymoon - the term has come to be used to describe a vacation taken by a couple that is expecting a baby in order to allow the couple to enjoy a final trip together before the many sleepless nights that usually accompany a newborn baby.
haha...so this is me and hubs in Hongkong before terror 2 arrives!

we managed to get cheap flights out to Hongkong via cathay pacific. the flight cost us about $230 per pax with tax included. So we are on our 4days 2 nights Babymoon in Hong Kong!!!
We arrived at HK airport around 11am, took a taxi down to Mongkok where we will be calling Stanford hotel as our home for the next 4 days. After we check in and they upgraded us to a deluxe suite, we dropped our bags and headed for the Municipal Building to have a good bowl of hot congee! My favourite kind of breakfast.

the grass fish congee here is uber fresh and chokeful of fish bites!
You wouldn't regret coming here! It's one of my favourite congee places in HK.

this is about the only photo of me and hubs because (i blame it on my pregnant brain) i accidentally deleted all my Hong Kong photos from my camera after I came back to Singapore and there's really no way to recover the lost photos. These pathetic few photos are from Hubs camera... sob sob.
Yup, I'm still pretty sore about the lost.
Hubs says this teaches me a lesson.
WHAT????
I'm the one with the pregnant brain! - that alone gives me loads of excuses, what lesson!!!
Somebody please make a man pregnant!!!

after my breakfast congee, I walked around Fa Yuen Street to work off my carbs and 2pm, I needed somewhere to rest my feet. So I hopped into Kam Wah Cafe - another one of my favourite spots in Mongkok. Love their pineapple buns and HK styled milk tea in black cow print. Really really love this place. I don't mind sharing tables too! Actually I'm quite comfy with ta-tai with the locals already!!!

after my rest at Kam Wah cafe, I shopped a bit at Argyle Shopping Centre. Reminds me of my time in Shenzhen actually. I bought only one skirt there although the building was like 4 storeys high and with loads of itsy bitsy shops. I AM IN CONTROL!!!!

back to Fa Yuen Street where I bought a Cath Kidston Magazine bag, a red beanie shaped like a rabbit's ear (something which i have been eyeing for the longest time on the internet). hahah.

swoosh goes my hair! and I'm eating a smelly tofu here.

after walking around Jerde's Langham place, cos hubs wanted to visit H&M. We didn't buy a single thing there, bought a Xu Liu Shan mango Hashima jelly drink and we went back to the hotel to shower and rest.
Once we have rested enough, we took the MTR down to Jordan and found out that both Australian Diary Milk pudding and Mak Man Kee are both closed because it's the Mid Autumn's Festival (it's a public holiday in HK here apparently!!!)

So upsetting.

I went to Yee Shun Milk company to have my ginger milk pudding while hubs ordered a pork chop sandwich.

Dinner was at temple street where I usually go for my seafood craving. Temple street is not as vibrant as ladies market... but the seafood stalls are still doing pretty ok.
here's a look at what we devour that night.

cuttlefish stir fried with veg
steam jumbo prawns with garlic
steam razor clams with garlic

OMG. i was so full after that meal and i walked from temple street all the way back to Mongkok!
it's about 3 stations apart.

hubs calls it the "AFTERMATH". BURP!!!!

HAPPY MID AUTUMN'S FESTIVAL TO ALL YOU PEEPS!!!