Hong Kong Revisited DAY 3 (2010-0118)

My sister arrived on my 2nd day in HKG and Branda and I joined her and her travel mates/colleagues on the third day… itinerary of the day was to head to Lantau Island to the Big Buddha, experience the Ngong Ping 360 ride, mine would be the 2nd time and first time for the rest of them…and shopping at Citygate, which was rather disappointing this round… none of us left the mall with any buy…… except for the medicated plaster I bought cos I freaking sprained my ankle lo while walking to the MTR after breakfast! Such a spoiler!

Stopped by for breakfast at a shop nearby to the Prince Edward station… Not sure if appetite was not really good, wasn’t hungry or the food is just not that appetizing :P The glutinous rice dumpling was so oily and the ones we have here is so much more nicer :P The porridge was ok though… and the noodles was a little bland….

In the MTR to Tung Chung… Ngong Ping 360 station is just adjacent to the Citygate Outlets and connecting Tung Chung station.

Outside Citygate outlets…

On the way to the Ngong Ping 360 station.. they had put up the Chinese New year and CNY decorations already..

Queue to enter the cable car… it can accommodate up to 10 person for each cabin… you either ride on a normal cabi or the crystal cabin with crystal glass cabin floors.. so you get to enjoy the view of the below your feet… and of course it’s slightly more expensive…

Nice view all around and good thing the weather is cold too…

More views….

Bird’s eye view of HKIA and also DHL Hong Kong Hub…. I discovered that on my first visit there… haha…

Myself, with Branda and sis…

Finally arrived to the upper station and the Ngong Ping Village….

Tea house in Ngong Ping Village…

CNY deco all up, ready to usher the year of the tiger…

Display of few different cable car cabin from around the world…..

There are 3 different monkeys, mascots for Ngong Ping… This is one of it… :D

And what’s the commotion at the Bodhi tree???

Ohh… TVB celebrities!! Bosco and many familiar faces!

They were shooting a Valentine’s day program…

We were all pretty excited… and all busy playing paparazzi…  last visit I did not see any celebrities also!

We took the opportunity to take photos with them as well :D

And they were nice enough to allow… although the producer actually said they have busy schedule ahead, so no photos with the celebs.. we, of course totally ignored him ler :P

I don’t really know her name but have seen her in a fair share of TVB series…

Most of us that have grown up watching TVB series would have known this lady… she have starred on loads of series… and she’s pretty friendly too… she stood near to us and started chatting and asked us where were we from.. and said she comes to Penang once in a while…  and even asked about our Kek Lok Si :D (She once came to Penang, purposely to go Kek Lok Si only)…

And of course who does not know Bosco Wong, one of the high rising TVB celebrity, also the ambassador of Kim Gary… After a good one hour chasing celebrities, we headed to the Big Buddha….

  With my sprained ankle, I still managed to climb up the stairs and down again…

The Big Buddha….

More photos…..

  View from the Big Buddha….Group photos!!

15 minutes slow walk to the Wisdom Path….

Words of wisdom carvings… which I do not know how to read :P

On our way back to Ngong Ping village, stopped by this place for tau fu fah (they used fresh spring water from the mountain it seems) and black sesame dessert…. the tau fu fah is slightly different.. Instead of palm sugar like we have here, they have like ginger soup and some-like crushed honey combs… I didn’t really like it…

Had McDonald’s, Ebi Burger, breaded patty with fresh prawns! Nice… and did our non productive shopping, or more like window shopping at the Citygate Outlets…. good 4 hours or more wasted…

While my sister and gang headed to Mongkok for shopping, and I’ve done mine the previous day, I headed to Langham Place to find of the very much  and highly recommended durian pancake by Tzu. Did not manage to make it during my last visit and told myself I must go try… It’s from Honeymoon Desserts… and they have several branches around Hong Kong, China and also Indonesia!

The pancakes… i bought both durian(green) and mango (yellow) pancakes…  it’s like crepe/pancake with cream and durian/mango. And the aroma… the moment I opened up the box of the durian pancake at the hotel room, it practically smelled like gas leak! haha.. Imagine! But it was yea.. good! and nice! So thanks to Tzu for the recommendation…

The we headed to Tsim Sha Tsui for shopping and dinner, had something light and soupy… great on a cold night…. I had rice in soup with wantons and Branda had rice noodles with beef balls… or was it fish balls… can’t remember.. at around midnight, went back to the hotel to get some rest my then already swollen ankle.. jia lat… :P

Coming up Hong Kong Revisited DAY 4 (2010-0119)