3rd day in hongkong

kowloon city park - only a 5 mins walk from our hostel building, we decided to visit the kowloon city park the night before. once home to the famed kowloon walled city, it is now a park with a public swimming pool, an aviary and many ponds. a drizzle started as soon as we started walking in the park, so we had to make use of our jackets and double it as a raincoat.




video showing our hostel room


将军澳 - we agreed to meet ching man at her hongkong's residence the day before for breakfast. she stayed at her uncle's place at 将军澳 Tseung Kwan O. This area looked like a singapore hdb town with many tall blocks of flats with a shopping centre in the middle of all the buildings. it was nearing lunch time, so we had a brunch of wanton noodles, another famed hongkong dish.



















ice-skating @ 太古 - after brunch was a short discussion about where to go next. although we had planned to go 炮台山 the day before, the 2 gals decided it was too late and there was nothing interesting (yeah.. to them) there except cannons and that i will be disappointed even if i really went there. being the lone guy, i was naturally the minority and can only "painfully" agree to not go 炮台山. instead, the gals especially baby was so excited about going 太古 for ice-skating... haiz... gals...



















stanley market and jumbo restaurant - we made our way to stanley market via bus from central after a tiring session of ice-skating. at least now i know how to balance on ice-skates and inch forward... haha. stanley market is actually somewhat like our holland village, except it is situated near the sea. there is the hongkong maritime museum near the market area. when we went there, it was too late and the museum has closed for the day, nonetheless we took pictures of exhibits that are available outside the museum. after a short stroll around the area, we head for Aberdeen, whereupon we were taken to a beautiful floating restaurant (Jumbo) via a motor boat (those kind that u see along singapore river).







lam kwai fong - similar to the mohammed sultan or clarke quay of singapore, lam kwai fong is a street with many pubs and bars of many different themes. ching man's sister was already waiting at the central mtr for the 3 of us while we rushed down after a lovely dinner at the Jumbo. we settled down at the dish cafe bar finally after scouring almost all the pubs to find one with the appropriate atmosphere. i ordered 'orgasm', a drink with a mix of vodka and baileys and dunno what else. the night ended there, and ching man also ended her role of a tour guide to us... foodcheese is by themselves again for the remaining 2 days...