much more relaxed itinerary for the day as we've already covered most of the sights: ngong ping buddha, tai-o fishing village, 大排档 & 糖水!
living it up in hk, part one - taking the tram, aka ding ding, to Central. cheap cheap, only HK$2.30, approx S$0.40?
bright and colourful ding dings..
I can never get used to riding this things. WAAAYY TOO SLOWWWW. e.g. one MTR station, 2 minutes apart = 10 minutes by tram. omggg.
heys, I think I can fit into the fast paced HK life pretty well :)
cable car was down (not my bad luck I swear, it was down for maintenance since May), so we had to take a 30+ min ride up to Ngong Ping village.
mum would be proud of me, I visited the Big Buddha!
the strange thing about climbing is that you're feeling so warm/tired from all those steps, yet the air is so cool up there, yet the sun's beating strongly down your back???
must still give it my famous thumbs up pose. hahaha
moving on to Tai-O village, the Venice of HK! uh, I suppose it's cos the houses are all built on stilts. very kampong feel not expected of HK.
loved munching on the cuttlefish though..
with our lovely hk pals, Steven Tina and Andy
also took a ferry out to spot dolphins.
and failed lah. nothing but still waters.
two bus rides and a train (火车) ride later, we arrived at Shatin 泰源大排档 for dinner.
three hungry girls innocently waiting for our food
WARNING: SEVERE FOOD SPAM COMING UP!!!
i have no idea how these...
evolved to these...
and finally became a full fledged 14 course meal for 8 of us. that's like more than 1.5 dishes per pax.
OHMYGOD REPEAT OF TIM HO WAN over-order disaster!! but still cheapcheap! 14 dishes for about S$15 each. and how many tourists will get to experience this??
there was roast pigeon, clams, chicken bone (?? super weird dish. it's like just eating flour. with bones), goose intestines??, gu lu yok, claypot veggies, broccoli, oyster omelette, some beef thing, some squid thing, some peeing prawn thing, chicken congee, normal chicken, and tofu. gosh, what a mouthful. in the end we ended up playing scissors paper stone to finish up the remaining dishes. talk about having similar cultures yeah.
as if the 14 course dinner wasn't gracious enough of them as hosts, they took us for 糖水!!
五代同糖, another chain of 糖水铺 in hk..
the fantastic egg pudding (taste reminds me a lot of the cream in tampopo's cream puffs), so many people were ordering this to takeaway. highly recommended!
will also recommend their 心太软, aka molten lava choc cake. the hot choc just oozes out!!
concluded the day with a 小巴 ride. if I disliked taking the tram cos of its speed, I ABSOLUTELY LOVE the 小巴 because it was SO FAST. it even comes with a speed reader thingy at the top left corner of the bus. (only 80-90km/hr for ours). but so speedy, and it bypasses all the stops where no one gets off, I LIKE.
only stressful part was shouting to the driver to drop us off, lucky for our hk pals. XX有落!!
I love 小巴!
