New Year’s Eve In Hong Kong

Time flies and its New Year’s Eve! Tomorrow it will be another brand new year!

This morning, we went back to the restaurant near our hotel for dim sum as it was so good that I can’t get enough of it. I noticed that they had stirred fried glutinous rice and hubby ordered the local favorite pork rib rice! It was indeed delicious… I am already drooling while writing about it…



After our sumptuous dim sum, we check out of Eaton Hotel and took a taxi to Hong Kong Island where we checked ourselves in at Conrad Hong Kong. We were so looking forward to the stay as the room is definitely bigger than the one we stayed in Kowloon. We considered ourselves lucky to be given a gorgeous room with a beautiful view. I knew that I will be spending the New Year countdown at the comfort of our own room as we were given the view of the IFC building where the fireworks will be showing. Really excited!




After shopping in Central, we went for our hi-tea at Temple Street. This is one extremely traditional café where you can find in Temple Street, it has a history of the first ‘Kar Wai’ (booth seats) built in this café. When we arrived at the café, we climbed up the narrow stairs to the upper floor where we were lucky to get the window seats. We ordered their famous ‘Po Lo Bao’ and their baked pork chop rice with a cup of tasty milk tea.





Our milk teas were served and within a couple of minutes, hubby finished it as it tasted so smooth and good. His Po Lo Bao was served next and I had to say that it was the BEST Po Lo Bao I had ever tried. It was soft, tasty and mmmmh…. YUMMY! My baked pork chop rice didn’t loose out neither. It tasted incredibly tasty with their special tomato sauce. The meat was soft, tender and juicy even baked! The fragrance of the rice was added an awesome flavor to it. Totally THUMPS UP!!!!



For dinner, we didn’t plan for an expensive New Year’s Eve dinner but a very simple and delicious one. We went to Central for our favorite beef noodles… YES, the curry beef noodles were heavenly though it was the spicy sort but it tasted great. I just couldn’t get enough of it and hubby had to order a beef brisket soup… Ooopppsss….



As we made our way back to hotel after buying some drinks and chips, we stopped by at the mall to take some pictures of Santa’s House. It was really cute and kind of like the display. We were all prepared to welcome Year 2010 in our comfortable pajamas and the local TV countdown programs.




The view from our room was simply fantastic… counting down… 3, 2, 1… Happy New Year and there the fireworks started on the IFC building right before our eyes…



Happy New Year my friends!

Day 4 In Hong Kong

It’s another cooling day in Hong Kong and not getting enough of the dim sum yesterday, we went to a restaurant near our hotel for brunch.

When we arrived there, I was taken by surprised that it wasn’t crowded at all… perhaps the locals don’t usually take dim sums as brunch… we ordered our dishes quickly as we plan to catch a movie in the early afternoon to be locals for a day!

I got to give the dim sums a thumps up at Cheers Restaurant! All the dishes we ordered were damn delicious man… I totally turned greedy after having the first serving of deep fried bean curd skin with prawn fillings. If you think the same one tasted great at our local Crystal Jade, then this is a totally WINNER! We ordered quite a few dishes but the bill turned out to be HK$98 which cost about SD 18 for two of us! I doubt we can get such awesome dim sum with such cheap price in SIN!








We went to Elements, the new shopping mall at Kowloon station for some shopping and also planning to catch a movie. The mall is really big and most of the boutiques were branded too. As we shopped around, I noticed the ‘bling bling’ Mercedes standing near the Starbucks café and was curious about it. When I looked closer, the car was covered with crystals. I thought of Ah Leng and took a picture of it.


As we walked the mall, we were attracted by the kids who were in the ice-skating right. Yes, the ice-skating ring is at the basement of the mall. It was really cool!



We went to get our tickets for the movie and what I liked about the movies in HKG, they were in Cantonese and the movie started on time. There were advertisements but movie started right on the dot.

Day 3 In Hong Kong

This morning, the temperature was about 14 degree and the weather man said that there will be rain in the afternoon. When I stepped out of the hotel, I wasn’t feeling the chill but I did enjoy the cool morning walk to the train station without feeling breathless.

We visited our favorite traditional dim sum restaurant located at Central and we were praying hard that it would not be crowded. Hey, my prayers were answered man! When we arrived, though it was almost full housed but we managed to share the table with some elderly. In Hong Kong, it’s really difficult to get a private table on your own!


Once we settled ourselves down with a sip of their ‘Pu Er’ tea, hubby went to get the food from the lady with the push cart filled with dim sums. There was a crowd whenever the push cart left the kitchen. Hubby managed to get a few dishes at a time just to fill my empty stomach. Finally after many attempts, he managed to get my favorite steam pig liver & pork. That dish was one of the reasons why I visited that restaurant even-though I have to fight for seats and share the table.






After our delicious and satisfying breakfast or brunch, we went shopping at H&M where I actually went MAD! The clothes were cheap and nice. I went to check out the children and maternity department and simply gone crazy! The maternity jeans I bought were really cheap, they only cost me like SD 20 per jeans and the kids clothes were such a great bargain! Anyway, I couldn’t resist and bought a couple at the end of the spree.

Initially, we planned to catch a movie but I was feeling a little tired after the mad shopping at H&M so, we decided to return to hotel to rest and at the same time… check out my damages. In fact, my damages were that bad so, I guess I will be back to H&M!!!!

Hubby told me that dinner will be quite a walk tonight and I did not mind at all as I already knew where we were going. For good food, I am willing to walk a mile!!! Okay, I know I sounded greedy but that’s me mah!

We arrived at Time Square as our short shopping stop before heading to dinner. I was really happy to know that Marks & Spencer was having sales up to 70% but was disappointed when I looked around the store as most of the clothes sizes were like size 14 and above!

When we arrived at ‘Keung Kee’, it was not crowded and we managed to get a ‘Kar Wai’ at the corner where we could have our privacy. Hubby ordered his favorite goose rice while I had the char siew rice and we added a plate of vegetables & soup. The food at the restaurant was simple but damn delicious. You can visit this place to get delicious goose at a more reasonable price than the one at Central.