HK: the first half
The day started as bad as it was the night before.
After the 7:45ish-8ish release. we celebrated by eating leisurely with our chowking takeout after the bomb has been planted and i went home at 10.
I finished the preparation at 1:30am. all because i have misplaced my luggage's other lock. that took me a whole half hour dumping everything out again at the bed, and rearranging everything back in only to find it hiding on my sneakers. talk about crappy.
i woke up at 5am woozy and obviously still needing sleep. my good dream of playing this cool RPG was cut short. and we headed off to NAIA1 at 5:30.
The line was NOT helping either. so they opened up for the smaller luggages,
Apparently the machine cannot withstand such weights, and I was waiting for my family while our luggage piled up on the other side.
The rude examiner told me : "inyo yan?" (those yours?)
me: "yeah"
examiner: "kunin mo na, walang kukuha niyan." (get it, nobody's gonna get it for you)
i don't know if it was the lethargic, but god, i told him.
me: "well you dont have to be rude.."
that shut him up. i kept glaring at him, whom was just glaring at the screen.
i barked to my sister to get her luggage, i totally forgot to add "baka hiritan pa tayo niyan" to the point the guard asked if there was any problem.
I just kept glaring at the goddamned security personnel.
The flight delayed at around 8:30 which it means it took off at 9:30 or so, and we got to HK at 11.
The old airport was used to be in Kowloon if I'm not mistaken. now the HK international airport is in Lantau.
I knew when I walked out the plane and saw the chinese words with english words under them, I knew I'm not in Manila anymore, let alone the Philippines.
As I was in immigration I was in awe. I was in an airport? but there was practically everything there. a mall, a bunch of restaurants, and even a place where you can have a shower.
HK is pretty..."hilly" we passed by a couple of peaks riding the A21 bus towards Tsim Tsa
Tsui from the airport, since the only one who requested for transfers was for 2 + 1 child. So
that shuns me and my sister to riding the public transportation with a family friend. Which
opted me to ride on a sweet double decker overlooking a magnificent view of Hong Kong.
Almost everyone is trendily dressed in coat and boots. and a LOT of boots i say. in different shapes, textures and colors. those long tshirt dresses and skinny pants and also a lot of converse chucks. both genuine and imitations.
I can safely agree to Renan's insight with regards to seeing a BUNCH of pretty chinese women all over HK. pretty, stylish chinese women. and I was still at the airport.
Anyway the bus stopped at Kimberley Road in front of the Miramar Shopping plaza. Then the Hotel Miramar.
Everybody was famished, except me who ate some siopao tita rosie gave me from the plane ride, anyway we ended up eating at this restaurant that served noodles, congee and the typical chinese food like barbeque pork (asado am i correct?) and soy chicken.
I missed their stir fry noodles very much and I ordred it straight away upon seeing the (thank god) chinese menu with english subtitles.
My sister ordred the chicken feet and dumpling noodle soup. While mom, dad and my other sister ordered barbeque pork, soy chicken, and fried vegetables consisting of eggplant brocolli and stuffed green peppers.
Let me tell you something about HK's stirred noodles. The noodle it self is so flavorful that eating them alone is a pain.
Luckily, as i expected, when the server (whom was too cute for words by the way) gave me my order, it came with its proper neutralizer. the soup.
The clear broth soup really compliments the flavor of the noodles (which came with a side of greens and oyster sauce for more flavor). if you feel like you're getting sick from the noodles. you can slurp a few times on the soup and you'll be a-ok to eating again. :D
pricewise, it's a bit steep. my noodle was a whopping HK$38.00 which is roughly around PHP237.5 i don't really know, but taste-wise. it's really good. the charsiew pork was meaty and flavorful, very juicy and tender with just the right amount of fat. Also the iced red bean with herbal jelly drink was a treat.
One thing that I would like to try is the authentic HK yam-chaa. which i haven't had the opportunity yet.
anyway after that was a side trip to de dolce. a gelato store near the resto. the price was HK$28.00 for 2 flavors or one either on a cup/cone, HK$37.00 for the premium flavors...
I had the raspberry/mango combination. Thank god the woman speaks english, so did the cute server guy at the resto. He had that nice hair...all layered and pop star looking.Back to the ice cream... :P
the mango was perfect. In a sense, it captured all essence of a perfect mango yoghurt. sweet, and the slightest hint of sourness to it. the raspberry was the usual.
what was intriguing is the fruit flavored yoghurt really had fruit pieces...amazing. not the artificially flavored yogurts like the ones in manila.
afternoon was a power nap. a quick powernap and dinner was at the lavish buffet spread at the Hotel Miramar. They were having a crab special. crab everything. steamed, appetizer, tossed with garlic, all types of crab in soups appetizers and the main course. the feast was amazing, there was a grill where you can ask to cook prawns and fresh scallops drenched in what i have a feeling is wine.
dessert was amazing as well.
after that we went to Miramar shopping center where my sister and i bought new flipflops that was on sale. 1 pair was HK$59.00, when you buy anything from the store, you get another pair for HK$29.00 so all in all its like HK$88.00 for 2 pairs. or PHP275.00 for each pair.
cheaper than havianas. Just as cute,
after that i had to zoom back to the Hotel for some...unexplainable emergency....
Tomorrow will be off to shenzen. or wherever...
o_o
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