After having used more than half the day wait and eat the best dim sum in HK, the trip continues again. Today’s plan was to go to Ngong Ping to see the Big Buddha statue. To get there was pretty damn tedious. Had to take MRT all the way to central before switching to the Tung Chung line. I think the trip to reach the end of the line was about 30-40 minutes already! But when we reached, jeng jeng jeng! Got one really big shopping mall right in front of us. It turned out to be the place where the direct factory outlets were. They were having massive sales.
Anyways, from there we took a cable car which cost $107 for a return trip. If you’d ask me I would have to say that the money paid was well spent! The cable car isn’t as scary as the one in Genting where you can feel uneven change of speed and altitude.
The cable car journey to the tourism settlement located at the foothill of the big Buddha took us about 25 minutes. The place had a nice old China Town feel you would get when you see those olden day TVB dramas. But with closer attention to detail, you would realise it really isn’t so old skool after all. They had Starbucks and Euro Restaurant. @@! We didn’t get to chill at any of the cafe’s because we were a bit short on time. We reached the place @ 4pm and the last cable car back to Central was @ 6.30! We quickly climbed up the err 200 steps of stair which I saw m both the fat and fit looking people struggle to get up there. What’s wrong with you people lol. I’m supposed to be the fat one ahah. But the flight of stairs was a breeze. Smoked it without much effort.
Talk to the HAND!
Mom was quite happy to be there since she’s a fairly religious person. Wonder how did she manage to bring up 2 very unreligious kids. ahahah. We spend half an hour walking about the Buddha said our prayers because mom asked us to. But oh well, with 2010 around the corner I believe we all have many things to ask for! After that we headed back down.
Bye bye Mr Buddha!! :D
After we got down we weren’t ready to go home yet!! We stopped for dessert;
Yumm! Tau Fu Fa ahha. In Hong Kong they have a small tub of orange powder which turns out to be sugar. You can just add it to you soy bean thingyyy if it isn’t sweet enough. Quite yummy even though I dislike the ginger syrup @@!
Snacksssssss! Just some sausages ahah. I also had curry fish balls again. Oh shit seems like all the pictures are in wide mode @@ Forgot to change it back to the normal mode dammit!
On the way back. Couldn’t get a decent shot with the insane wind rocking the cable car on the way home :(! And of course with the poor lighting, a hell of a lot more exposure is required.
Dinner @ the mall was the a Teppanyaki place. It was ok-ok only. But definitely better than all those Teppanyaki fast-food outlet in Malaysia! I sooooo remember the bad experience I had at Mr Teppanyaki @ Sunway Pyramid where the food was gawddd! So disappointing!! Not to mention the horrible one located in the KLCC foodcourt! All so fail ahahah. Every since those bad experience I would try to abstain from feasting on non-buffet Teppanyaki. Truth to be said, Teppanyaki isn’t difficult! It’s just stir fried meat on a hot plate omg. I think it is more of the cook’s attitude that made previous experience shitty. The total “lack of interest + I’m getting paid RM5 an hour so shaddup.” Blehhhhh!
In the process of being cooked!
Felt super healthy that day. Had this whole heap of bean sprouts + another heap of green vegetables!
After that sister and I went shopping but we didn’t buy anything because hmm we were feeling a bit undecided. And since most outlets were DFOs, you can expect the clothes to be very messy with a night market kind of crowd. A bit too insane for my liking! About 10 something I went back to Mongkok to get some rest. All the walking was getting into me already! But of course before sleeping sister and I got on the streets to pick up some supper lol.
PS: YESSSS ITS THE WEEKENDS, BACK IN PERTH AGAIN :D!!!
Wen
