Hong Kong Trip Part II

Hong Kong Trip - Part II

I had breakfast at Fairwood not so far from the guest house. Fairwood is similar to Cafe de Coral. It offers a wide variety of Local Chinese dishes, and Western dishes too. They have mentioned that according to the preference of the customers, they have "no MSG" food series, and authentic dishes from other parts of Asia too. Nowadays, they already have more than 140 outlets in Hong Kong and Mainland China.

I ordered Breakfast Ah Wood Menu, the scrambled egg with toast + Pork and Salted Cabbage with Rice Vermicelli in Soup, comes with Hot Milk Tea. It is a set menu. And add on Oatmeal with Milk. We shared our breakfast. Taste was good, but the rice vermicelli, just so so. It is my opinion. Let me tell you here, if you want to eat there, before queue, make sure what you choose to order. Because it is very fast, if you reach the cashier counter already and you still thinking what to order, and a lot of people are queueing, you can get panic, and wrongly order maybe? 

Here's the menu http://www.fairwood.com.hk/eng/menu/fourdaysparts.jsp

Fairwood - Humphreys Avenue
Address: Grand Centre, 8 Humphreys Ave, Tsim Sha Tsui, Hong Kong
Phone: +852 2856 4468
Opening Hours: Sunday to Friday 7 am to 9.30 pm, Saturday 7 am to 10 pm

 

 

 

Since we chose to stay in Tsim Sha Tsui, so after we had our breakfast, we stroll around the area. Unfortunately, not a lot of places open in the morning, Usually they open at 11 and above, some start at 10 am. I actually want to buy their egg waffle. It is just so close from my Fairwood, but they just start selling the Egg Waffle in the afternoon. Few months ago, when I was visiting HongKong, I have researched the most famous egg waffle in Hong Kong, and this place is the one. Small stall, but always long queue. What makes it different is the waffle is crispy at the outside, but you will get the chewy from the inside. Here's the details, if you would like to try:

Lee Keung Kee North Point Egg Waffles 利強記北角雞蛋
Address: Hong Kong, 178 Nathan Rd, Tsim Sha Tsui, Hong Kong
Opening Hours: Everyday 11.30 am to 12 am

Around 11 am, we need to gather at the bus, to go to Hong Kong Avenue of Comic Stars, it is one of the must visit place when you go to Hong Kong. It is located at Kowloon Park, and next to the renowned tourist spot, Park Lane Shoppers Boulevard, build on 2012. This place is featuring the designed figurines of local comic characters and a lot of handprints of famous artists. Unfortunately, two times I visited this place, but the Characters area is under construction now, so I just got a chance to visit the handprints area. It was so windy that day, when we took photo, all hairs are messy. LOL.

If you love photography, I need to tell you that there are lots of good spots to take pictures. You will love it. And, for the transportation, there are lots of buses, and got MTR also that you can use in order to go to this place. Do check Google Maps out, find out how to go, or ask people, ask concierge, or if you go with the tour, it will be so much easier. Because I used one. 

Hong Kong Avenue of Comic Stars 香港漫畫星光大道

Address: Kowloon Park, No. 22 Austin Road, Hong Kong

Phone: +852 27 8859 68

Website: http://www.comicavenue.hk/transport-eng

 

 

 

"What about Lunch?" - sayswho

Yeah, it is Lunch time. We went to Paramount Banquet Hall. Basically it was Chinese dishes, good for group, if you come with lots of people, this place should be better. They served us like 8 dishes if I can remember correctly. The taste was quite good. Actually this place is more towards for wedding reception like that. It is just they open for public or normal dinner or lunch like that. I think you should put on reservation first if you want to have your meal here and you come with lots of people.

 

 

Paramount Banquet Hall
Address: LG, South Seas Centre, 75 Mody Road, Tsim Sha Tsui, Hong Kong.
Phone: +852 2721 8821

For more reviews, what to order, etc. Check this >> https://www.openrice.com/en/hongkong/r-paramount-banquet-hall-tsim-sha-tsui-guangdong-dim-sum-r23670

 

 

Next, our schedule was going to Madame Tussauds, Hong Kong. It is known as the first Madame Tussauds museum in Asia (Source: Wikipedia). Madame Tussauds Hong Kong opened at the Peak in 2000, featuring around 100 wax figures of international actress, singers, presidents, and other famous people. As a tourist, or visitors that never been to Madame Tussauds before, I suggest you to come and visit, it is very interesting on how they build the wax figures, really similar to the real person. Prepare your camera, and take your pose with the figures, you will having fun there. There are several themes inside, like Hong Kong Glamour, Music Artists, Historical and National Heroes, World Champions

Madame Tussauds Hong Kong
Location: at Peak Tower - 129 Peak Rd, The Peak, Hong Kong
Opening Hours: 10am to 10pm
Phone: +852 2849 6966
Website: https://www.madametussauds.com/hong-kong/en/plan-your-visit/how-to-get-here/

To reach there, I used bus then I took Peak Tram, for additional information, if you are single visitor, better you check this >> https://www.klook.com/activity/523-peak-tram-3-in-1-combo-ticket-hong-kong it will help you a lot to go around the Peak there. Because if you go straight away go to the counter, I have to tell you, the queue will be super long! Do consider to buy from those kind of travels. 

Unfortunately, I went there during the peak season, beginning of this year, so yea, when you want to take pictures with the figure they all, it is kinda hard to get the clear photo where no other people inside our pictures, and sometimes you need to queue and wait for other people to take pictures, then only our turn. 

As the sky getting dark, we all need to to Ferry Terminal, because we need to depart soon to Macau. Hong Kong to Macau it just took 1 hour by Ferry. We used this >> http://www.cotaiwaterjet.com/ferry-schedule/hongkong-macau-taipa.html

My experience inside the ferry, even though it just took you 1 hour, the seats was comfortable, wifi for free, you can bring your own food inside, cold enough, but because the waves on the sea very big, it brought me headache, and feel like want to vomit. 1 hour felt like super long. 

After all, we reached Macau safely. Checked in to the hotel. Golden Dragon Hotel. Put all our luggages, then we went to dinner. Restaurant nearby, selling Chinese dishes as well. Then we stroll around the area, the weather was super nice, not cold, windy, and not hot as well. Took some pictures,  bought some fruits and went back to hotel, and rest, because the next day we are going to see around Macau, which is exciting. 

 

 

 

 

Golden Dragon Hotel
Address: 88R., 78 R. de Malaca, Macau
Phone: +853 2836 1999


To be continued....

Hongkong

Trip to Hongkong, Macau, and Shenzhen

Part I

Travelling ~ it leaves you speechless, and turns you out to be a storyteller

What a good start of 2017, I can go travel again at the beginning of this year. I went to Hongkong, Macau and Shenzhen. Departed on 2nd of January. I went travel with my dad, mom, grandma, and my parent's friends. We used Cathay Airline to go Hongkong, because it is direct flight. If you love to travel, lots of promotions ongoing lately. The ticket we bought only around IDR3,000,000+ not more than 3,500,000 though and it is return ticket. And, it is direct flight. Only Cathay and Garuda Indonesia that provide a direct flight from Jakarta to Hongkong. the other airlines, you should transfer first, either in Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, etc. But we bought it around 4 months before the flight, that's why it is cheaper. So, if you plan to go to Hongkong, or travel to other place this year, plan it well. Find some travel exhibition and buy cheaper ticket. Save up some money. :) :)

My flight was early in the morning. 5 am, and reached HongKong around 10.30 am (GMT+8). Once i reached airport, me and others tried to find transportation to go to the place we going to stay. We found out there are buses from airport that going to the city. Let me tell you, Hong Kong’s public transportation is incredibly convenient! From airport itself, you have buses, airport express train, or taxi. You can use bus, and change to mtr/subway as well, as there are lots of buses will stop on the mtr station. They provide sufficient information on the board, clear enough to be undersood, or else, you can ask the person at information counter, which bus that going to specific area, the place you want to go. It takes me 43HKD to go Nathan Road, Tsim Sha Tsui area. 

Just additional information, If airport express:

	Adult (incl. 65 and above) Round trip single journey/same day return/octopus	Child (3-11 y.o) Single journey/same day return/octopus
Hongkong - Airport	180HKD / 100HKD	50HKD
Kowloon - Airport	160HKD / 90HKD	45HKD
Tsing Yi - Airport	110HKD  / 60 HKD	30HKD

Group Travel	Group of 2	Group of 3	Group of 4
Hong Kong - Airport	$170 $85 per person	$230 $76.7 per person	$280 $70 per person
Kowloon - Airport	$150 $75 per person	$210 $70 per person	$250 $62.5 per person
Tsing Yi - Airport	$100 $50 per person	$140 $46.7 per person	$170 $42.5 per person

(Means if you buy 2 tickets, or more, you will get special price)

We stay in  Pearl Premium Guest house for first night only. Basically if you choose guest house, usually it is very small, even hotels in Hong Kong, the room mostly smaller than normal hotels in other countries. It is located in one building, the reception is on 6^th floor of that building, but actually the building not only for the guest house. Once you see the building, you can see a lot of stores inside the building. Start from certain floor only used for guest houses. Don't feel shock, k! The elevator only two, one is going to even number's floor, and the other is odd number. 

Rooms are very simple, got TV and aircond inside. The Bathroom definitely super duper small. But there is a water gallon nearby the office so you can refill the mineral water for free. They provide amenities like shampoo, soap, towel too. I have to stay that eventhough it is super small, but the guest house is clean. Free wi-fi too. Surround this area is always busy, lots of shops surround the building, easy to find local food, just few minutes, walking distance you can find Miramar Shopping Center, and 1881 Herritage. Just across the road, you can find the Tsim Sha Tsui MTR Station. Really convenient.

Address : Room 6A, 6/F, Mirador Mansion, 54-64 Nathan Road,

                       Tsim Sha Tsui, Kowloon, Hong Kong

Telp: +852 581 977 14.

After check in to the room, and put my luggage, I go to Café de coral, which is located in one of the building nearby, tooks only 2mins walking. Café de coral is a Chinese fast food corporation that has more than 140 branches in Hong Kong. They usually provide Sets Meal, you can choose which one you like, price is below 50hkd.

Café de Coral Nathan Road

Address: 2/F, Chung King Mansion (Woodhouse),

                     36-44 Nathan Road, Tsim Sha Tsui

Phone: +852 2367 0802

Operating Hours: Mon – Sun 07.00-21.30

http://www.cafedecoral.com/

After filled in our tummy with enough food, then me and parents go to Tsuen Wan area, to send my Grandma to meet her friends. It is super far from Tsim Sha Tsui. But fortunately, by mtr, we don’t need to change line, Tsuen Wan is at the end of the red line, which is the line of Tsim Sha Tsui too. Per person is 14hkd, but I used Octopus Card (Public transportation Card), so there is small discount, around 10 only. After she already met her friends, and go to her friend’s house, three of us go to central, IFC mall, using mtr again. And again, no need to change line because Central and Tsuen Wan is located at red line. But it is quite far, from one end to the other end. IFC Mall is in Hong Kong Island already. If you confuse why I mentioned "island" at the end, because inside Hong Kong itself actually separated into 3 Islands, Tsing Yi, Kowloong and Hong Kong Island. (Check Google Map to see further :D)

IFC contained an exclusive combination of reputable offices, shopping malls, and finest hotel (Four Season Hotel). one of the Airport Express station is here as well. So place extremely huge, there are buses, MTR (interchange station), airport express, ferry terminal, altogether in this place. And if you stay around the Central area, you can find there area free shuttle bus to some hotels around Central. Every 20minutes. Even if you stay at the hotel that is not include in the list, you just tell the driver your hotel's name, the driver will drop you at one of the hotel that he will pass by based on the route, which is the closest to the place you stay. The counter located nearby the airport express train station. So, we had our dinner at IFC, my dad's friend brought us to the famous dim sum called Tim Ho Wan. 

Tim Ho Wan is a well-known Michelin one-star Chinese restaurant, Dim Sum Specialist (添好運點心專門店), they ensure the freshness of the food, mean that all the dim sums are cooked right after customers order. Most famous dish is Barbecued Pork Bun Pastry - 21HKD (酥皮焗叉燒包) . Then we ordered Steamed Dumpling Chiu Chow Style - 14HKD, Traditional Style Sticky Rice in Lotus Leaf - 30HKD (古法糯米雞), Steamed Rice Rolls stuffed with Barley and Pig's Liver - 23HKD (黃沙豬潤腸), and 2 kind of soups. 

If you love Dim Sum, you should come to Tim ho Wan, and go get a try. People said, Tim ho wan always has a long queue. Even last September I came here too, we came at 8am, the store hasn't opened yet, but the queue has been there. Win liao! But it is definitely worth to wait.

Tim Ho Wan
Address: Shop 12A, Hong Kong Station, Podium Level 1, IFC Mall, Central, Hong Kong
Phone: +852 2332 3078
Open Hours: Mon to Sun 09.00-21.00
Exit A from Central MTR Station

#really sorry that I didn't take photos of the food for the today. 

to be continued.....

:D


have a good weekend! 
thanks for reading,

regards,
pris

pricillchandra@Hotmail.com // @pricillchandra