Date: 23 Dec 2008 Monday (Day 03)
11:00AM Ready for the day…
I know it’s late, but we were very tired from all the walking yesterday.
Wah! The people were still queuing! Were they there all night?
Hmm.. guess what they were queuing up for? Answer – Queuing up for the launch of a new condominium.
No more water!
11:45AM 太å Prince Edward MTR
JR topping up our Octopus cards
Crowded train… similar to Singapore’s train.
Searching for directions
12:10PM ä¸çŽ¯ Central
Exit at D2.
So many branded shops.
In search of 香港莲香楼. We read somewhere that this place sells really nice dim sum.
Walk, walk and walk… This was more tiring than yesterday! We were climbing uphill…
Oh, Sanrio store…
Old shop house
12:30PM 香港莲香楼
FOUND!
So crowded! Everything there is self-service, i.e. have to find our own seats… We gave up after waiting for about 10 minutes…
More climbing… Are you able to visualise the steepness of the pavement?
What’s this?
Everybody seemed to be scanning his/her Octopus card over it. JR went over and scanned our cards too.. It’s actually a machine to rebate 2 HKD to our Octopus card.
ä¸çŽ¯è‡³åŠå±±è‡ªåŠ¨æ‰¶æ¢¯ Central Mid Levels Escalator
We climbed from å¨éˆé “è¡— Wellington Street to 鴨巴甸街 Aberdeen Street then to å£«ä¸¹é “è¡— Staunton Street. Turned into 嘉咸街 Graham Street and back to å¨éˆé “è¡— Wellington Street.
12:55PM Our Brunch
Advertisement… Let’s go in…
It was also crowded there but we managed to find 2 seats, sharing with 2 other ladies.
The menu…
Newspaper cut out from The Sunday Times!
Vegetables
JR’s 云åžæ°´é¥ºé¢
My 云åžé¢
Total – 86 HKD
13:15PM Full and satisfied
This Chinese herbal tea store was full of customers.
Hee, we also bought a cup of 凉茶 each.
We continued walking from 嘉咸街 Graham Street to 皇åŽå¤§é“ä¸ Queen’s Road Central and stopped by Sasa and Watsons. Bought a bottle of vitamin C and a eyeliner pen. We turned into 畢打街 Pedder Street. We visited the LV there. The items there are more expensive then the ones in Singapore.
14:13PM On our way to 铜锣湾 Causeway Bay
14:30PM 铜锣湾 Causeway Bay
We came out from Exit E and walked along 怡和街 Yee Wo Street.
Turned into ç³–è¡— Sugar Street.
We visited the toy room at 16F of 铜锣湾商业大厦 Causeway Bay Commercial Building.
Rows and rows of toys.
Life-sized Batman
15:00PM 記利ä½æ²»è¡— Windsor House
We left 铜锣湾商业大厦 Causeway Bay Commercial Building and went to 記利ä½æ²»è¡— Windsor House at å‘Šå£«æ‰“é“ Gloucester Road.
Bought an egg tart and a 丹麦å¼è è包 Pineapple Danish Bread from Yamazaki Bakery.
Photo taken while queuing up for the lift up to the 7th floor – Toys“R“Us.
JR with his toys!
Queuing up again for the lift up to the 11th floor – The computer level there.
16:00PM SOGO
We walked along Great George Street to Sogo.
Nothing much to shop there… everything is similar to those selling in Singapore.
Mochicream
Beautiful box
6 of them!
Yummy little treat. Its a glutinous cake made from pulped rice and inside is a cream filling of different flavours. It is usually served almost frozen and is best eaten about 15 minutes later. We bought a packet of walnut cookies from æ’香 too.
We walked along 怡和街 Yee Wo Street to 波斯富街 Percival Street followed by ç½—ç´ è¡— Russell Street.
Reached æ™‚ä»£å»£å ´ Times Square.
17:05PM æ™‚ä»£å»£å ´ Times Square
All prepared for new year countdown.
Sculptures artwork exhibited outside Times Square.
17:22PM Dinner
We went directly to level B2 in search for Watami. We read that this restaurant serves very good Japanese food.
Nobody in the queue.
石锅牛肉野èœçƒ§ Beef & Assorted Vegetables BBQ in a Stone Pot
Delicious!
牛油烧带å Baked Scallops with Butter
明太åèŠå£«çŽ‰å烧 Cod Roe & Cheese Rolled Omelettte
Yum yum…
香蕉朱å¤åŠ›èŠè² Banana Chocolate Parfait
Me & my 黑èŠéº»é›ªç³• Black Sesame Ice cream
Christmas performance by kids.
Indigo Child exhibition by Carrie Chau.
19:40PM 西港城 Western Market
Took the MTR again to 上環 Sheung Wan.
Walked from å¾·è¼”é“ä¸ Des Voeux Road C. to 西港城 Western Market.
西港城 Western Market is one of the oldest structures in 上環 Sheung Wan.
20:16PM ä¸çŽ¯ Central
We were back to Central!
Central was decorated with this 30 metre-tall Giant Dazzling Christmas tree in Statue Square.
More photos on the night view of Central:
20:55PM Back to our hotel room
JR”s new toys
Our empty Mochicream box.
Our empty Mochicream wrappers
21:20PM Still queuing
People still queuing downstairs!
00:20AM Supper
We had our dinner too early! We were hungry, so had no choice but to have supper at one of the restaurants opposite the street.
柑桔蜜
JR’s 蒜茸猪扒
My 乾炒出å‰ä¸€ä¸
Ice-cream for dessert.
Total expenses for Day 03:
| Item | Cost (HKD) | Cost (SGD) | Exchange Rate |
| Top up Octopus Cards | 200.00 | 38.02 | 5.26 |
| Brunch | 86.00 | 16.35 | 5.26 |
| Herbal Tea | 10.00 | 1.90 | 5.26 |
| Watsons – Vitamin C + Eyeliner | 146.90 | 27.93 | 5.20 |
| Yamazaki Bakery | 14.00 | 2.66 | 5.26 |
| æ’香 Walnut Cookies | 9.00 | 1.71 | 5.26 |
| Mochicream | 82.00 | 15.59 | 5.26 |
| Transformers Toys | 809.80 | 153.95 | 5.26 |
| Dinner at Watami | 216.70 | 41.20 | 5.26 |
| Supper at 春日茶é¤åŽ… | 88.00 | 16.73 | 5.26 |
| Ice-cream | 12.90 | 2.45 | 5.26 |
| Big bottle of water from 7-eleven | 25.00/td> | 4.75 | 5.26 |
| Hotel room Internet | 20.00/td> | 3.82 | 5.23 |
| TOTAL | 1720.30 | 327.06 | |
| * 5.26 Exchange rate from Change Alley |
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