Hong Kong Day 3 (12th Jun)

Breakfast

Venue : Cafe De Coral
Total Bill : HK$37

Was thinking of trying this place's barbequed pork rice, as I had read rave reviews about it from some bloggers who frequent Hong Kong. However, we didn't know that the place had different times for the different meals. So, we were in time for their breakfast, which means to early for lunch, which starts at 11 a.m.

In the end, we just had to settle on their breakfast sets.

Chicken in glutinous rice

Macaroni and ham

Ocean Park

Entrance fee : HK$208

Bus ride : HK$10.60 (per trip per adult) - a non-stop double-decker bus ride from Admiralty MTR station right to the entrance of Ocean Park

The Aviary

Scarlet Ibis

Eh... think those two should be the same family with the Mandarin Ducks. We were kind of rushing through this confined aviary coz the husband was afraid of getting "bombed" at as all the birds are allowed to fly freely in the area.


As Ocean Park is built on both sides of a mountain, there are two ways (by escalator or cable car) to travel up and down to visit the two main areas of the park, the Headland and the Lowland.

We took the super long escalators, 4 in all, from the Lowland to reach the Headland. Each escalator's length is so long that there is an on-going message playing all the way to warn people of safety, and there is also a member of the staff at the end of each escalator to monitor what is going on along the escalator through a CCTV.

Pacific Pier

This is the place where tourists can see the sea lions and seals swimming and being fed.

This is a real seal. I think it's somehow trained in a way that it's made to stand there for people to take pictures of it. It jumps into the water when the feeder throws fish for it to eat. But after eating, it will climb out of the water and go back to this position. It's very funny.

Sea Jelly Spectacular

Shark Aquarium

Atoll Reef

Cable car ride (down from the Headland to Lowland)

The Hong Kong Jockey Club Giant Panda Habitat

Dinner

Venue : a rather small old-style noodle stall at a corner of Temple Street

Total Bill : forgot to take note, but should be less than HK$50

My first bowl of Hong Kong wonton noodles. Needless to say, it was good. Like what my sister-in-law mentioned, food is the thing in Hong Kong. You can't really eat anything "bad" even if you just walk into any eateries anywhere. No overcooked noodles, or soggy rice, or tasteless foods. At least that was the case for us during this 4-day stay.

Ladies Market & Temple Street

As the husband mentioned, it seemed like there were much more to see and buy when we were at the Ladies Market 5 years ago compared to now. I thought the same too as, surprisingly, we finished the walk through the Ladies Market in less than an hour.

Also, there was not much to shop too. Between the distance of about this stall and maybe two stalls away, they would be selling the same thing. So, in the end, I thought about it carefully, the Ladies Market may seem to be covering quite a long stretch of streets with what seems like a lot of stalls, but in actual fact, the things sold are only about less than 10 types, maybe?

Temple Street seems a little better in regards to the variety of goods. And the best thing was, it is only a two-street walk away from our hotel. In the end, we bought most of our souveniers from here.

Supper

We had supper that night coz our dinner was at 4 plus. So after walking through Temple Street, we came across a really old-looking bakery shop. It was very small, and divided only into two areas, the selling front and the baking area behind. And as with old bakeries went, the products should be good. So, we got the 20 Wife Biscuits, which are the you-must-buy-this-in-Hong-Kong food, and 3 Po Luo buns, which is also a famous HK food.

And the buns were good! For my non-Chinese friends, I'm sorry to say that I don't know how to explain this Po Luo buns to you. Honestly, I'm not even sure if there is any special ingredients in it or not. Haha. But there is this layer of slighty crispy and fragrant biscuit-like thingy on top of the bun which gives it the yum factor, other than the soft and spongy feel of the rest of the bun.

And for the husband, he had char siew (roasted pork) rice (HK$22). This was actually the second pack of char siew rice he had for supper two nights in a row. It was also by chance that we stepped into this roasted meat stall to get the char siew rice the previous night, and since then, the husband had been raving about the roasted pork and we went by again to get it for the last night at Hong Kong. The husband said that if not for the custom restriction, he would have bought back a whole string of the roast pork. Haha.