Day 4 - Hong Kong (continue)

Ok, since Caleb sleep quite early tonight. I shall continue....
Actually I tricked and 'lured' him into room and said "oh, mami tired, mami sleepy, mami sleep ok?" He said "Noooo..."
I said "No ar, then you dont sleep, mami sleep ok?" and I proceed switch off the light and wrapped up myself with blanket. He wailed a while, suck his 2 fingers and lie down beside me....finally less than 15minutes he zzzzz-ed .......
*Wahahaha...evil plan succeed*

Where am I? Oh, the vegetarian lunch. Overall, lunch was quite decent. All the dishes were well cook with clean flavor and very light seasoning. The only setback was it tad too oily for my liking. Anyway, we couldnt finish most of the dishes. The portion was big and it's enough to feed 5-6 person. Feel a little guilty seeing all those foods wasted but we really really doing our best......Sorry, foods :(

After full lunch, yes, we need to exercise abit. We are going to challenge ourself (or it is just me?) to climb up 268 steps up to get a close look at the Buddha Statue.

Looking at those steps already make my legs shaking....*Why dont I go those cafe sip coffee while wait for you guys? Call me after you're done* Haha...nola, I didnt say that. I dont want to die there.... For sure my cousin will kill me :)

So, I braved myself and climbed up those steps...On the way, saw a few warning sign.

 Do Not Climb

Be Careful, Dont pray pray...steps are very steep.

I think they need to put another sign: Dont look down (it's damn scary, ok?) when you're half way.

Yessss....almost there. A few more steps....Gosh, it's getting really cold up here. I've to put on my superglove aka lui sat sau's glove. My hands were FREEZING!!
The Buddha appears serene and dignified.....

The mighty bronze Tian Tan Buddha Statue sitting on a lotus throne.

The statue is surrounded by six smaller bronze statues known as "The Offering of the Six Devas". Each of them was holding offerings of flowers, incense, a lamp, ointment, fruit and music to express her tribute to the Buddha.

Soon it's getting dark and temperature dropped tremendously...by now, my hands trembling even thou I wore a thick pair leather glove. I turned into ice-statue again, barely can move.

Slowly, I took my own sweet time going down the steps. Remember I already turn half ice statue?....until my cousin took this picture of me and yelling at me to make it quick... Haha....

We took cable car and MTR back to city and soon it's dinner time again. We spotted this Hui Lau San dessert restaurant chain almost everywhere we went. Since we had a full vegetarian lunch earlier, we thought we'll just have a light dinner.  

I curi picture again ^.^ hick hick

My cousin ordered 多芒小丸子 (Glutinous Rice Balls in Mango Juice with Extra Mango). Look at those yummy glutinous balls, mango ice cream and mango cubes...I'm salivating now. Uhh la la.....

But too bad, I didnt get taste of it. Why? because by now, my throat begin to swell and getting really itchy. Mmm, sign of 4-heavenly-king going to pay me a visit soon. (4 heavenly king = Sore throat, coughing, flu and fever) :( :( :(

And so I ordered this boring looking thing. Haaiii...all the way to Hong Kong, all the way to Hui Lau San and all I did was order this hot soupy dessert. And now I even forgot what it's called.....something double-boiled pear with rock sugar and snow jelly (suet kap).
I dont have a choice, as I've already started coughing on my second day in HK, I dont want to accelerate the rest of my 'visitors' to come and visit me. I WANNA STAY ALIVE!

Curry with a lot of stuffs ie sotong balls, octopus tentacles, cow stomach, radish....I think I took one sotong ball. Curry...bad for my sore throat ler...

Roti Canai. Haha...all the way to Hong Kong to order a roti canai. I hate to say this but amazingly, the roti canai taste very good :) Really good. It was fluffy, crispy and light, but slighly oily. I would say "Thumbs up for Hong Kong Roti Canai" LOLZ...

The highlight of our dinner is this. 瑞士鸡翼 - Switzerland Chicken Wing or Swiss Chicken Wing. I doubt they have this kinda chicken wing in Switzerland thou. Haha... This was soooo good. Aromatic, sweet, tender chicken flesh just dropped down from the bone. GOOD...
We even have second round of this.

Yes, I curi again :)

With full stomach, we walked around, walked back to our hotel, bath (oh.... I hate the bathing part) and get a good night sleep. The moment my head hit the pillow, it sent me straight to La La Land.

Tired.

Day 4 - Hong Kong

"Eh, where is your Hong Kong punya cerita? No more blog about it ka?"

"Aiya, busy la, need to blog about Caleb in Singapore first"

That was what jk asked me the other day...... :)
And it been more than a month since he asked that question... :))

So, I just need to stop procrastinating and continue with my HK's blogging.  Ok, day 4 is coming....

The next day, we woke up rather late in the morning. By the time everyone were ready, it was already past 11am. Just as we were about to step out from the room, I made a phone call to the front desk to ask about our room status, and as promised by the hotel management, they upgraded us to a bigger room.

Oh boy, we were so happy. Now we can walk around without bumping or clashing into each other shoulder. The bathroom was bigger too with it own shower place....

....and a bathtub.

But in this freaking cold weather, I dont bother to spend so much time in the bathroom. I just need to do what I need to do inside and dashed out as quickly as possible. I even brought my sweater and jacket inside to put on immediately after came out from shower. Brrrrrrr.......

My cousin and I took pictures of the room, bathroom, sink, shower, cupboard, dilli dalli dilli dalli...until my aunt looked like this.

"Wah you two, enough de or not? Sien lor!!"

No, my aunt didnt say that....just looking at her expression makes me think that. ^.^

Destination: Ngong Ping 360 Experience - Tai Yue San

Initially we wanted to have porridge for breakfast at 生记粥品专家 but we were so hungry as it almost noon. So, we asked the hotel receptionist on where they have good food. She recommended us "Foo Lum Dim Sum Restaurant", just 3 minutes walking distance from our hotel.

Today's weather temperature: 9C. WTF!

Foo Lum Restaurant signboard.

Wah...so many clams, try a spoonful of the water. Must be very tasty....lol

We were actually quite relieved when we saw the price on menu. For sure we wont go bankrupt just having breakfast here. No throat-cutting. All the prices just fair and reasonable.

Special price menu....pick, pick, pick

Chinese tea for 3....

So, let's begin our dim sum presentation...

 Har gau aka prawn dumpling

 Pan fried radish cake aka jin loh pak kou

 Thousand century egg porridge....smooth and creamy

Before I went to HK, jk been telling me how I have to try char leong. No matter what, die die also must order this. So, here it is... THE CHAR LEONG

It's actually a crispy fried dough wrapped in rice noodle rolls. Dipped in special soya sauce, it tasted good. If they can make the fried dough remained crispy all the time, then it will be far more delicious.

 The Char-Leong

 Normal siew mai aka just siew mai la..dont know how to translate this.

 Fung jau aka chicken feet or better known as Pheonix's claws. Haha...classy......

Char Siew Pau aka BBQ pork buns. Ohh..this is heavenly

The total damage was slightly more than HKD100 for all those yummlicious food. Really worth it. We vowed that we shall come to this place again before we headed back home.

Destination for today is Tai Yue San (大屿山) where the mighty 85-foot high Bronze Tian Tan Buddha Statue rested.  We traveled along the Tung Chung line to Tung Chung station to enjoy a journey of 360 degree spectacular panoramic views.

What is Ngong Ping? The first time I saw the signboard, I was thinking......oh, what a name. At least it sound weird to me. Why on earth somebody would give such a name. Maybe there was an explaination to it. Oh well....
Ngong Ping 360 is actually a tourism experience which combines a 5.7 km cable car journey with a cultural themed village and easy access to the Tian Tan Buddha Statue.
 
My tour-guide was queuing for tickets for us. Haha....

We purchased the Round Trip ticket on Crystal Cabin plus the entry to Walking with Buddha and Monkey's Tale Theatre for HKD230. There are quite a few packages available, with and without the journey of enlightenment package, Crystal Cabin or Standard Cabin....

But we thought, what the heck right? All of us never been to Tai Yue San before, we might missed something valuable. As that they said: You have sold a cow, why not give away the rope as well right? Lolz....get what I mean?

 

Awarding ceremony....

....and the award goes to.....deng deng deng

 
and we proceed to the Crystal Cabin's line, which was not so many people in queue. Haaaiii...we rich ppl ma... *hick hick*

 
Each Cabin can fit up to 17pax with 10 sitting and 7 standing. Luckily we only shared this with 4 others.

Everything is transparent in Crystal Cabin, even the bottom is made from thick glass so you can enjoy every nook and corner while you were in there.

It was abit scary at the beginning but the whole journey takes 25 minutes. I get used to it in no time and begin to enjoy the panoramic view. But still it so freaking far far away.....

Since nothing can do much, I asked my cousin to take picture of me again lor...

All of us....including 4 strangers sharing with us.

20 minutes later, we caught our first sight of the mighty gigantic Tian Tan Buddha.

At last, we reached Ngong Ping Cable Car Station. The weather was really really cold. Wind was blowing non stop. I turned into ice a few times....frost - defrost - frost - defrost. By now, my throat become itch and dry. Nose was blocked, couldnt breath properly....gosh, I think I'll get sick very soon.

We took our time, walked around the themed village.

Ngong Ping village.

Even Starbucks is here. I stood as near as possible, trying to catch a glimpse of wifi around so that I can open my FB account and see if the father got any pictures of Caleb posted or not. Miss him so much.

Uhh...kai-dan-zai @ HKD18. Expensive. I think the price went double even triple here. No choice, tourists spot ma. In the end, we bought one to share....

and a cup of curry fishballs. All time favourite among the hongkies.

The taste was just so-so only. The kai-dan-zai got no taste of egg at all, just purely flour flavor and the curry fishball was bland. Sigh......again, tourist spot ma.....

This is the part of our package that we bought at the beginning comes together with the Cable Cabin.

Walking with Buddha:

Basically, it is the story of how a man named Siddhartha became Buddha and his path to his enlightenment. 

Quite entertaining and full of information as it really took you through his younger years up until he reached his supreme awareness and becoming Buddha.

Next is this Monkey's Tale Theatre.  

We felt that we were bluffed into this. Hahaha...why?

Because at first we thought we are going to watch real monkeys in action but it was only a short movie with computer generated animation, combined with special effects and surround sound.

Ok, lunch time. As planned, we going to have a vegetarian lunch at Po Lin Monastery.

There are 2 type of vegetarian lunch provided. General at HKD60 or Deluxe at HKD100.

We choosed the later one. Hahaha....we want the best out of this trip. Moreover, I dont know when I'll come here for 2nd time. 

We were lead to a VIP room where all the VIP having lunch such as datuksss and datinsss. Haaa...kidding~~

Our VIP dishes.

There were consists of 5 dishes all together. Soup, spring rolls, vegetarian duck, choy sam with HUGE mushrooms and stir-fry variety of vegetables.

To be continue......when I dont have Caleb squirming under my feet. Haaaiii....now you know why I couldnt update my blog as frequent as possible?