Monday, 28 August 2017

Hong Kong Day 1 and 2

Before we flew, we heard of typhoon in hong kong!
Luckily by the time we fly, 
the typhoon was over...
It is my first trip to hongkong in summer,
i dont know is it just summer
or because of the recent typhoon,
it was super hot and super super humid
that i think it was worse than in Singapore!
I was hoping the rain and typhoon cool the weather, but nope!
Having the little bean in my tummy didnt help,
is like im constantly carrying a personal radiator! 
Pregnancy tiredness and the heat was definitely draining my energy daily...

Day 1: 
Anyway we took the mrt to the airport in the morning,
took the flight at about 11am and finally arrived HK about 3pm+.
By the time we found our hotel (located in Prince Edward) and checked in,
it was already 5pm+ and i was truly starving!
It was partly my fault that i didnt ate at the airport thinking we will arrive hotel soon
and there was a long queue for check in... brrr
or should i blame my need for 2 hours feeding, haha.

Maybe is the flight, jetlag, weather, hunger or just been pregnant
I was not in mood to visit or do anything touristy (include taking photo)
We did managed to walked to mongkok and surpised at how crowded it is on a monday
and in the end finally found a congee place for dinner!
I know the weather is hot but i can never resist congee in hongkong,
it is always sooooo good...
And i lost count the times i wanted to eat congee
but didnt because husband was getting bored of it.

I dont know if  is me or the prices really increased in hk
(even my sister mentioned of the price hike before my trip)
I do felt that things are much more expensive in hk
that we did overspent a little on our budget.
Even eating at cha chan ting felt more expensive as usual.

After the dinner,
we walked around a little and i managed to buy my curry fishballs
which is always bad but i defintely need to buy and eat in hk, haha.
Husband gets to admire the famous colorful signboards
Some usual groceries for the hotel room
and we went back to rest at about 8pm+.
1 of the main point to go back was that i was still having my all day morning sickness
and need to puke after most of the meals.. (that dinner)
Since the next day we are going to the big buddha in lautau island,
husband found out that it was better to buy the cable car tickets online
and spent his time buying the tickets for us for the next day,
while i was eating snacks after puking, haha.
And we rested for the day to gain energy for the crazy next day...

Day 2
I think the common event of everyday is to buy bread
for me to snack during the day, in case i wake up hungry at night and for breakfast.
I must be really helping the bread economy during my stay!
And it helps that i was missing the soft asian bread after 1.5years of the french bread..
I think husband must felt pregnant too,
he was eating everytime when i ate, haha.

So, the day started with breakfast of bread
and we took the mtr to tung chug station.
Thanks to the online tickets, we managed to skip the queue 
and board the cable car shortly.
All day morning sickenss makes me prone to motion sickeness
that i even had cable car sickenss
and didnt really appreciate the view on the way...
We then arrived at ngong ping 360
 and stopped for snacks of soya beancurd and instant noodles.





After a short walk at ngong ping 360,
we finally went to the big buddha!
I think ill be tired to climb the stair when im not pregnant,
and being pregnant makes is 100x harder.
It didnt help with the hot weather that i was constantly findling shade.
And i didnt share husband's excitement and photos taking.





Thereafter, we went to visit the nearby Po Lin Monastery.
It was then, we took another drink break and i decided it was enough for me.
I encouraged husband to take the wisdom path alone
while i will wait for him in ngong ping 360 
(among the air conditioned shops)
and im glad for this plan
as he truly enjoyed the walk
and the rest was good for me.




I think husband was hoping to stay longer in lantau island
but i was so tired and unwell that i suggest to go back to hk.
Which was a good choice because there was no queue for the cable car
and i was starving by the time we arrived at the mtr station.


Since there was a outlet shopping mall,
we went to search for lunch.
We didnt have much choice except for expensive restaurants 
But luckily i spotted that we can buy bentos from supermarket
 and there was a small area to eat!
After our bento lunch, i was given 1 hour to shop
and managed to bought 2 tops to survive for the trip
and we left to return to our hotel area.

I cant remember what we had for dinner,
i think it was  cha chan teng,
a place where i have to use my lousy cantonses.
I dont know why but im always so stress at ordering food in hk
because my cantonese sucks and the waiter/waitress are so fierce
that i warned husband not to have special requests or change his mind while i order, haha.

 we went back to pack our bags to go to macau the next day!
Just to be safe, i even called up the hotel in macau to make sure it was open
after watching news that the macau was much affected by the typhoon than hk
and we didnt really felt hk was affected at all except some fallen trees.
And the hotel told us that everything was functioning as per normal except some hotel attractions
so we were happy to go!



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