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Tuesday, October 30, 2012

Discover City Life in Hong Kong Trip - Wong Tai Sin Temple and Snoopy's World (Day 5, 08 Sep - 14 Sep 2012)

Around 10 am, we reached the famous Hong Kong Dim Sum Restaurant - 添好运点心专门店 which awarded with Michelin status. Although the restaurant wasn't opened for business yet, but the queue was quite long. While we were queuing up, we took the order at the same time too by picking what we wanted to eat from the order paper.

After we got our queue number, unfortunately, we were not the first round of customers that can enter into the restaurant. Therefore, we wandered around the shops nearby the Dim Sum restaurant.

Finally it reached our turn to enter into the restaurant, once I stepped in, I realised the answer why we couldn't enter during the first round. In fact, the restaurant only can accommodate 4 - 5 tables of customers, typical Hong Kong restaurant style - small space and crowded!

Overall, the taste of the dim sum we ordered were really tasty and delicious. However, the waitress there was mistakenly took our order twice, and we couldn't cancel it. No choice, we gotta take away the food and served them as our lunch :(

添好运点心专门店 Hong Kong Dim Sum Restaurant, Wong Kok - Long queue before the restaurant was opened for business
美味栈 Yummy House - While we were waiting for our turn to enter into the Dim Sum restaurant, found this local snack shop and bought some local snacks there :)
添好运点心专门店 Hong Kong Dim Sum Restaurant, Wong Kok - (top left) 酥皮叉烧包 (top right) Inner part of 酥皮叉烧包 (bottom left) 潮州蒸粉果 (bottom right) 香滑马来糕
添好运点心专门店 Hong Kong Dim Sum Restaurant, Wong Kok - (top left) 煎腊味罗白糕 (top right) 家乡咸水角 (bottom left) 密味叉烧肠 (bottom right) 杞子桂花糕, first time eating this dessert, LOVE it very much!!

After we fed our hungry stomach with delicious Dim Sum, we headed to 黄大仙祠 Wong Tai Sin Temple. Upon our arrival, out of my expectation that how come it was so crowded with visitors?! (Since that day was not weekend nor public holiday)

Anyway, we did spent some time to worship and hope to gain some good fortune in the future and of course we also did some photo shooting around this temple too!

黄大仙祠 Wong Tai Sin Temple - Information board to introduce the history and background of Wong Tai Sin Temple
黄大仙祠 Wong Tai Sin Temple - One of the Chinese Zodiac animal in the temple
黄大仙祠 Wong Tai Sin Temple
黄大仙祠 Wong Tai Sin Temple
黄大仙祠 Wong Tai Sin Temple
黄大仙祠 Wong Tai Sin Temple - 月老庙
黄大仙祠 Wong Tai Sin Temple - Lotus fountain

After we done with worshipping in Wong Tai Sin temple, we took MTR subway to 新城市广场 New Town Plaza. Since I was already in Hong Kong, of course I won't miss the chance to meet my FAVOURITE Snoopy!! Hehe...

The 史奴比开心世界 Snoopy's World is a free entrance playground park located at the outdoor of 新城市广场 New Town Plaza shopping mall. So happy that when we reached there, it was not many people around that area and we can take photo in a very enjoyable way :)

We went to 新城市广场 New Town Plaza shopping mall just for the Snoopy's World, therefore we didn't really spent time to shop around in the mall and directly headed to the next stop.

MTR interchange station to go to 新城市广场 New Town Plaza
史奴比开心世界 Snoopy's World, 新城市广场 New Town Plaza - Me at Snoopy's World entrance
史奴比开心世界 Snoopy's World, 新城市广场 New Town Plaza - I like blue blue sky :)
史奴比开心世界 Snoopy's World, 新城市广场 New Town Plaza - Cute clock architecture
史奴比开心世界 Snoopy's World, 新城市广场 New Town Plaza - Cute Snoopy's World school bus
史奴比开心世界 Snoopy's World, 新城市广场 New Town Plaza - Kids can take a boat ride with cute Snoopy
史奴比开心世界 Snoopy's World, 新城市广场 New Town Plaza - Playground for the kids
史奴比开心世界 Snoopy's World, 新城市广场 New Town Plaza - Snoopy is sleeping?
史奴比开心世界 Snoopy's World, 新城市广场 New Town Plaza - Snoopy & friends & Me
史奴比开心世界 Snoopy's World, 新城市广场 New Town Plaza - Big big ring!!
史奴比开心世界 Snoopy's World, 新城市广场 New Town Plaza - Snoopy Theatre
史奴比开心世界 Snoopy's World, 新城市广场 New Town Plaza - Snoopy Post Office
史奴比开心世界 Snoopy's World, 新城市广场 New Town Plaza - Huge champagne, cheers!
史奴比开心世界 Snoopy's World, 新城市广场 New Town Plaza
史奴比开心世界 Snoopy's World, 新城市广场 New Town Plaza - Dating with Snoopy :P hehe... Super hot sunny day, can't widely open my eyes (anyway my eyes are originally small, doesn't make any big difference :P)

Thursday, October 25, 2012

Discover City Life in Hong Kong Trip - The Peak Tower, Madame Tussauds Wax Museum and Sky Terrace 428 (Day 4, 08 Sep - 14 Sep 2012)

In the evening, we headed to 山顶凌霄阁 The Peak Tower after visited Ocean Park. On the way of walking from MTR Central station to The Peak Tower, you will pass by some famous landmarks such as 中国银行大厦 Bank of China Tower, 长江集团中心 Cheung Kong Center, 圣约翰座堂 St. John's Cathedral, 圣约翰大厦 St. John's Building. Click here for more information on how to get to The Peak.

After we reached the ticket counter of 山顶缆车 The Peak Tram, we spent quite some time to queue up in order to get into the tram car. After about half an hour, finally reached our turn to ride on The Peak Tram. It takes about 10 - 15 minutes per journey. It was really an amazing experience to ride on the tram car because the tram car track gradient is from 2 degrees up to 27 degrees. So you can imagine how astonishing is the old style tram car that it can climb up a slope hill while having a breathtaking view on the outside from the tram car's window.

山顶缆车 The Peak Tram
山顶缆车 The Peak Tram - 李嘉诚 welcomed us at the ticket counter. Long queue to ride on the tram car :(

Once we reached The Peak Tower, there were some souvenir shops that selling many variety of souvenirs to visitors. Of course, I took the opportunity to get a post card there. Based on my research, there is a post office in The Peak Tower, therefore I can take the chance to sent post card back to my home :)

After that, we headed to 杜莎夫人蜡像馆 Madame Tussauds Wax Museum. In this wax museum, you will see many famous wax figures of celebrities - Pop Stars, Asian Stars, Kung Fu Stars, Hollywood Stars, Sports Stars, Royalty, World Leaders, Cultural Figures, Characters. We spent around 1 and a half hour here and felt quite satisfied as we took photos with almost all the wax figures there :)

杜莎夫人蜡像馆 Madame Tussauds Wax Museum - (left) 陈慧琳 and (right) 李小龙 Bruce Lee welcomed us at the entrance
杜莎夫人蜡像馆 Madame Tussauds Wax Museum - 成龙 Jackie Chan. Can't take photo with him with your own camera, only the staff there can take photo for you with their camera
杜莎夫人蜡像馆 Madame Tussauds Wax Museum - 吴君如
杜莎夫人蜡像馆 Madame Tussauds Wax Museum - (left) 杨紫琼 Michelle Yeoh (right) Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt
杜莎夫人蜡像馆 Madame Tussauds Wax Museum - I wish I can own a grand piano...(I'm dreaming now :P)
杜莎夫人蜡像馆 Madame Tussauds Wax Museum - (left) 张柏芝 (right) 阮经天
杜莎夫人蜡像馆 Madame Tussauds Wax Museum - (left) 郭富城 Aaron Kwok (right) 李冰冰
杜莎夫人蜡像馆 Madame Tussauds Wax Museum - (left) 刘德华 Andy Lau - Forgot to feel his hearbeat (right) 古天乐 Louis Koo - Love to watch his comedy and romance movies
杜莎夫人蜡像馆 Madame Tussauds Wax Museum - (left) 周杰伦 Jay Chow (right) 李连杰 Jet Li
杜莎夫人蜡像馆 Madame Tussauds Wax Museum - Madame Tussauds
杜莎夫人蜡像馆 Madame Tussauds Wax Museum - Barack Obama - "Hello, this is Obama's office, is there anything I can help you?"
杜莎夫人蜡像馆 Madame Tussauds Wax Museum - The Royal Family (left) Princess Diana (right) Queen Elizabeth II & HRH The Duke of Edinburgh
杜莎夫人蜡像馆 Madame Tussauds Wax Museum - 张国荣 Leslie Cheung - Happy Birthday to you, Leslie :)
杜莎夫人蜡像馆 Madame Tussauds Wax Museum - (top) I'm part of the oil painting!! (bottom) Shakespeare
杜莎夫人蜡像馆 Madame Tussauds Wax Museum - (left) 杨利伟 - China Astronaut (right) 毛泽东
杜莎夫人蜡像馆 Madame Tussauds Wax Museum - (left) 周恩来 (right) 胡锦涛
杜莎夫人蜡像馆 Madame Tussauds Wax Museum - (left) Albert Einstein - E=mc2 (right) buyPablo Picaso
杜莎夫人蜡像馆 Madame Tussauds Wax Museum - I'm having breakfast with McDull & Madame Mak
杜莎夫人蜡像馆 Madame Tussauds Wax Museum - (left) Johnny Depp (right) Pierce Brosnan (James Bond)
杜莎夫人蜡像馆 Madame Tussauds Wax Museum - (left) 甄子丹 (right) 黎明 Leon Lai
杜莎夫人蜡像馆 Madame Tussauds Wax Museum - Audrey Hepburn. My head is big!!
杜莎夫人蜡像馆 Madame Tussauds Wax Museum - (left) Marilyn Monroe (right) Shahrukh Khan
杜莎夫人蜡像馆 Madame Tussauds Wax Museum - Sports Stars: (left) Giant 姚明 Yao Ming vs Mini me (middle) David Beckham - Nice to hug, hahaha... (right) 刘翔
杜莎夫人蜡像馆 Madame Tussauds Wax Museum - (left) Elvis Presly - Reminds me about my broken guitar... (right) Michael Jackson
杜莎夫人蜡像馆 Madame Tussauds Wax Museum - (left) Madonna (right) Lady Gaga
杜莎夫人蜡像馆 Madame Tussauds Wax Museum - (left) Twins (right) 邓丽君
杜莎夫人蜡像馆 Madame Tussauds Wax Museum - (left) 杨千桦 - No chance to hear her laughing sound (right) 古巨基 Leo Ku
杜莎夫人蜡像馆 Madame Tussauds Wax Museum - 梅艳芳 Anita Mui

After we happily done with photo shooting in 杜莎夫人蜡像馆 Madame Tussauds Wax Museum, we headed to 山顶凌霄阁摩天台 Sky Terrace 428. Coincidentally, we reached there at 8 pm, therefore we had the chance to view the Symphony of Light again!! :) But this time we were viewing on top of the hill.

山顶凌霄阁摩天台 Sky Terrace 428 - Watched Symphony of Light again :)

The last stop in The Peak Tower was the The Peak Tower Post Office. I quickly wrote my post card and purchased stamps from stamp vending machine then sent back to my home :)

Lastly, we queued up quite some time again to take the tram car and back to Wong Kok to have our dinner at 云吞成面食 restaurant and I ate 炸酱面 noodle for my dinner. We went back again to this restaurant, because during that time every bowl of noodle was selling at HKD 13 and we were lazy to find other restaurant for our dinner due to we were too exhausted at end of the day.

I wanted to try out the dessert in Hong Kong, therefore, after we ate dinner and rested a while in the hostel, we went to 许留山 Hui Lau Shan dessert shop to eat dessert. I've ordered their famous mango dessert, the mango was really sweet, yummy!!

许留山 Hui Lau Shan dessert shop - (top left) 什果亮晶晶 (top right) 水蜜桃流心 Peach pudding (bottom left) 香滑芒果布丁 Mango pudding (bottom right) 芒椰红豆小太子 Mango coconut milk with read bean smoothie