双喜城酒家- Oriental Viva

Chinese people have a saying, 民以食为天 

So, celebrating birthday would be a good reason for us to tuck in with good food! 

My dad is a traditional man, so Chinese restaurant would be the best place to celebrate his birthday! 

And here we are at  双喜城酒家- Oriental Viva

龙 虾 肉 南 天 烩 鱼 翅 

 I love the broth! The pumpkin blend in well to this dish. 

缤 纷 乳 香 肉 

 I shall give a thumb up for this! But is only limited to one per person. The pork was crispy and goes well with all the vege. Yum Yum! 

治 味 猪 肚 捞 嫩 鸡 

 Not bad, we dont really take intestines but with all the onions,garlic, ginger marinate together we happily finish it.. 

豚 肉 月 光 波 菜 

豚 肉 月 光 波 菜  2

 This must be finish while its hot, too much starch in it. When it got cold, is kinda geli 

上 海 粉 皮 泡 椒 蒸 游 水 鲈 鱼 

 Not much comment for the fish, but you see the white kuey teow thing? That's quite special to me. 

鲍 鱼 焗 饭 

 I think i'd tried better one in China, but not bad =) 

Cake from Delectable

 The Chocolate cake taste good, but not the cream =X 

Happy Birthday Papa! 

We order the set menus for 6 pax RM388++
There are various other type of set menus available, you can check out from their website but it must be reserve in advance for taking the set menus!

This is our very first time visiting this place, to our surprise it was actually quite full house despite it is located at a very deserted 3rd floor, and corner place. Would love to go back and try other dish again =)

How to go there? 
Located at: 3rd Floor, Viva Home Shopping Mall, Jalan Loke Yew Kuala Lumpur

More info:-
http://www.orientalrestaurants.com.my/Restaurants/OViva/OVivaProfile.aspx?page=OViva_Profile

I love egg tarts!

I guess everyone know Hong Kong got a lot of hidden gem, below are the few of must eat restaurant! 

1. 添好运点心专门点(Lucky Dim Sum) -深水埗 (Sham Shui Po)

If you bought a Hong Kong Travel Guide, you will definitely go through list of Michelin Restaurant. Of course alot of it were really luxurious restaurant and not my budget to pay a visit. But this one star dim sum is definitely a good place to get good food and not hurt your purse! 

Famous Dim Sum Place 

clockwise from left:- 1.荷叶饭 2.酥皮叉烧包3.虾饺4.桂花糕

YumYum List:- 
1.荷叶饭  2.酥皮叉烧包 3.皮蛋瘦肉粥 4.虾饺 5.烧卖

How to go? 
Take a cab! Just tell the taxi driver the shop name and he know where to bring you ;)

Next, this is the unforgettable ice tea and egg tart i ever had, according to Mr Bf, is the best Cold Milk Tea he ever had in Hong Kong...

2。金风茶餐厅 - 湾仔春园街41号
Located in a little corner shop lot, took us quite some time to look for it but definitely worth the journey, we have to passby some wet market, toy shops and etc.. Actually i kinda like this place, it shows the real life style of Hong Kong people. Heard some bad comments that the food was serve cold but i didnt encounter any of it. My Chicken pie and egg tart was hot, i guess just came out of the oven. You can also see queue out there where many are taking away the pastry.

无冰冻奶茶。蛋挞，鸡肉派

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YumYum List:-

1. Cold Milk Tea (冻奶茶） 2.Chicken Pie (鸡肉派）3. Egg Tart (蛋挞)

How to go? 

港铁港岛线湾仔站-步行15分钟 

3。泰昌饼家 - 中环 (Central)

I think i dont have to say much for this famous bakery shop. If i'm not mistaken there're few branches of it. 

Kiss my yummy egg tart! 

YumYum List:-

Egg Tart (蛋挞) Egg Tart (蛋挞) Egg Tart (蛋挞)

How to go? 

港铁港岛线中环站-步行15分钟 

There's a lot of shops to walk around this area, also rather near to 石板街,going to share it at next post. 

4。 金华冰厅-旺角

Its a very famous cafe in the area, it had a great customer service and also good food! 

This place is full with people, from local to tourist. I think its famous for its oven made egg tarts! Just smelling at it make me hungry ^^ 

I think i forgot to mention that all the cafe might need to share table during peak hour, is part of Hong Kong culture =) 

YumYum List:-

Egg Tart (蛋挞) Po Lo Bun(Pineapple) 菠萝包 Milk Tea （奶茶）

How to go? 

港铁荃湾线太子站-步行10分钟 

Writing this post, make me hungry =(
Missing Hong Kong again... 

Stanley Prison?

If you were a TVB fans, you definitely heard o the Stanley prison (赤柱监狱） before, i always thought that's the place for prison and nothing much to see. I'm so wrong. See it for yourself 

赤柱/浅水湾 

Mountain VS Sea, great feng shui

Goin through all the shops in 

The blue building, appear in one of the TVB drama.

How to go there? 

By Bus 香港岛线中环站（Central Station)，乘巴士6A

It was quite a long journey to reach Stanley, you will pass by Repulse Bay first. If you have sufficient time, do take a stop at one of the beaches. Sadly, i only get to see it from the bus as is not part of our plan =( 

Go down at the end of the stop, and walk around at the town. 

Stanley Plaza/Market, you will be able to find lots of shop selling various type of things. 

Almost get myself a Iphone player dock, it was really cheap but was rather worry on the quality. 

Great place for photo shooting, love the ambiance.


After the sight-seeing, we take the bus out to 铜锣湾(CausewayBay)
I guess i dont have to say  much here, as what we do is shop all the way till we drop!
Longchamp- 崇光百货 Sogo
Hollister- 希慎廣場 Hysan Place (P/S: you can find the famous 诚品书店 here too~ )
Gucci/H&M/ZARA and etc, you can easily find them ;) 

After we done our shopping, our night plan is to 尖沙咀(Tsim Sha Tsui). I never watch the symphony of lights before, so we purposely waited till 8pm for it. It was really a disappointment =X 

Don't bother waiting for it.. 

Just enjoy the night view and snap photo along the 星光大道 (Avenue of Star)

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crystal cable car, dare to try?

有没有听过，如果没到过大屿山（Lantau Island)，就不算去过香港了！

I always been longing to visit the Buddha located at Lantau Island! My previous HK trip wasn't able to make it there, so i insisted on this round!

The red circled is the location of Lantau Island, you can reach there easily by MTR! Love the MTR system of HongKong, wish KL is so convenient too.

There's a small village and Buddha to visit after taking the cable car up to the the top.
I really enjoyed the 5.7km cable car, there's two type of cable car one is normal, the other one is crystal!
To really enjoy the view, take the crystal one. Its all transparent and you can see through it!.

Here our journey goes:

Starting point

Wheee, starting from seeing grass

Tada, see the sea! 

Once you touch down on the village, you can walk around. There's a starbucks over there too! My favourite store would be the 招财猫 shop,  its origin from Japan but the cat is extremely cute!!!

Love the lucky cat

Once you done the sight seeing, dont forget the shopping spree. HongKong is a shopping heaven. Before you reach the cable car to Ngong Ping 360, you defnitely passby a huge shopping mall. That's a must go place- City Gate! 

City Gate, the best place to shoppppppppppppp! 

Unable to go to every shop, but there's a few brand that;s really worth visiting - IT Outlet, Ralph Lauren, Coach, The body Shop, etc etc....  

Look at what we got! 

Of course, this is not just two person shopping bag ;p 

View from City Gate 

Do estimate a full half day for Ngong Ping 360 and City Gate, especially if you really want to shop. Our initial plan was only morning in Ngong Ping and leave City Gate before the day ends. Somehow, we lose control in our shopping spree.. 

Next:- 赤柱/浅水湾/星光大道 

touching down in Macau

One year past, and i'm landing again on Macau for my HK trip!

Bought the tickets a year ago, wait until my neck also longgggg.

 

  

The weather was awesome, look at the yummy clouds!

touching down at 7pm

 My stay in Macau was really short, less than 24 hours. From the airport, we took a cab, to reach Sintra Hotel. I was trying to look for free shuttle bus, but i think there's only shuttle bus to those high class hotel. It cost MOP38. Not to waste anytime, once I'd checked into Sintra Hotel we immediately took the free shuttle bus to 新濠天地。The shuttle bus comes quite often until 11pm midnight.

A new Mall in Macau

 

Spent the night shopping around Venetian as casino is not my cup of tea. I'd like to try my luck next time if i'm going macau again ;)

 

Had a good night sleep at the Hotel and head to the Jetty for the Ferry to Hong Kong.

I'm not sure whether you guys know that there's actually two jetty in Hong Kong? One in Sheong Wan(上环） another one in kowloon (九龙）. Was told by one kind Hongkee that the ferry to Sheong Wan is more comfy, so do choose wisely when you're buying your ferry ticket! It cost ard HKD150. 

 

 



Hong Kong, here i come ;)

Hi From HK, stay tuned

PS: do remember to try the famous pork bun and egg tart if you're in Macau and Milk Tea usually doesn't taste good

I love phuket day

Day 3 - I love phuket day!

 

Got this I love Phuket T shirt from a shop nearby to our hotel, 100baht for one piece! 

The material is quite good, and guess what, buy 10 free 1! Just nice for 11 of us! 

 Our plan for the day is to Phi Phi Island, Krabi

Krabi??? Dont feel weird, Krabi and Phuket are extremely nearby.
One of the must do thing in Phuket is of course ISLAND! 

Cost: 1200 Baht
Time: 7am leave hotel, waited until 10am only start our journey 

Itenary: 3 Island, Lunch included

First island: Phi Phi Lay Island..

The first island is super crowded, it's just a small bay with lots of tourist...
But we DONT CARE, we just wanna have fun..
We are young~~~~
hahah back to the topic, the bay was small but we still found a place to have fun

The weather was so so hot, we cant wait to jump inside!

Were only allowed 45minutes on the beach, and we sailed to the second island..

Too much time spent on the speed boat, sleep awhile first =p 

The second island.... is acutally not an island, we get to snorkel in the middle of the sea.

Clear water ^^ 

 

But there's not much fish.. =( 

Snorkel just for another 45minutes... and again, we sail to another island 

After all the fun, i'm already starving. Lunch is included, we landed on another island again. 

This island is alot bigger than the previous island. There's also some lodge houses, you can choose to stay a night over here too. 

After lunch, we had a quick walk around the island.

 If i'm not mistaken, this island was heavily hit by the tsunami in 2004, its now back to its beautiful look =)

After an hour 45mins, we sailed to another island again.
The last island, is the best of all..
Khai Island
I'm starting to miss it already..
The moment we step on the beach, is full with beach umbrella...
Colourful umbrella, is not free thou,
200baht each pair, is optional of course.
I personally think is quite fun to get one, relax on the chair and the tour guide will serve you with fruits and drinkss.. extremely enjoy ;)

Enjoying at the beach!

Yummy corn! another enjoy ^^

Of course, this place also have a beautiful beach! You can choose to snorkel or just simply swim around the sea. The water is super clear, you can see fishes swimming around you too!
We were too busy playing, so no photo taken around the sea ;p

Overall, i think the last island is the best.... hehe
I'm still missing it.. i wanna go back to the island again...


Getting alot tanner after the end of the day,
With no regret ;)