Shopping & Dining (Day 2)

Jane was on holiday over the weekend, We were so luck that Jane was our Guide!

We met at 8.30 am at the lobby of the Hotel we accommodated. Jane went with us for the Chinese style breakfast, we ate congee, fried baguettes! The fired baguettes looks very funny. It is extremely different from the French style!~ Funny snack!

After the breakfast, Jane brought us to the famous Garden Street and Ladies Market in Mongkok for shopping. It’s very crowded at the weekend! There were lots of booths at the each side of the street which made the road quite narrow. A place with lots of inexpensive daily goods~ And we bought some cute sticker to our little nephew! :>

Garden street in Mongkok: What a busy street!

We had a dim sum lunch in Chinese restaurant. It's an interesting experience. We saw some people reading newspapers and magazines while having the lunch! We ordered for several dishes dim sum, e.g. har gau, steamed dumplings sui mai, spring roll, ricesheet roll and pork puns, etc. with the Chinese tea. It was my first time to drink Chinese tea, and it seemed a good match with dim sum! And I decided to buy some Chinese tea to my parents at end of the trip!

After the lunch, we took the ferry from Tsim Sha Tsui to Central and did shopping in Admiralty’s shopping mall. The clothes and luxuries are so fancy. And we, crazy shoppers, bought lots of clothes and shoes in there~

After shopping for 2 hours, we were so tired. ~_~ We met Chinese Bill who was Jane’s boyfriend. He brought us to have Hong Kong's style afternoon tea in a restaurant in Wanchai. Bill was a charming guy, he introduced us that there was a slang in HK: 3.15pm, tea time; and he recommended us favorite foods for afternoon tea in a HK - milk tea, egg tart and pineapple bun with butter. The egg tart was tasty. We heard that the former Hong Kong governor, Chris Pattern loves it too~

Egg Tart

Pineapple Bun with Butter

The next stop was Causeway Bay for shopping again! We were very surprised the 3 shopping places we went for that day were in different style! The teenagers in Causeway Bay looked trendy! And the accessories there were very attractive with a reasonable price!

We then went to SOHO, Central, there are lots of western style restaurant. And we had a happy dinner and night with Jane and Bill and 2 of their friends. ^_^