This is a super random post.
I don’t think I need to account for my actions, especially to you. It’s my home, of course I get to decide which part of the house I want to go to! Why bother so much. Keep in check your attitude first.
Anyway, I’m pretty excited about the HK trip. I really am!
Each day I’ll do alittle research on it.
We were deciding between Taiwan and HK. HK is much easier to navigate and to get around with public transport.
I doubt I have the time to research on TW. Getting around isn’t all that simple and it takes time.. etc etc. Besides, he hasn’t been to HK before.. soo…
I went HK when I was 9. I wasn’t at the age that I know how to shop. Going with parents meant that they’d go on tours. But I think they extended the trip. I remembered my uncle’s friend stayed there. We went up to their place, it’s beautiful.. we went to a restaurant for meal, fantastic food. Ladies street was a very vibrant place at night. My parents would buy lotsa CDs or isit cassette tapes then? I can’t remember but they seem to have made friends with the stall owner. I only know that I was stuck at that particular stall for very long!
Fast forward 9 years later, I visited HK again. It’s the first time I’m overseas with my friends. Imagine my excitement then.
I did intensive research, but I hadn’t start surfing forums yet so most of my information I got was from those HKTB, or from my cousin. While I was there, we stayed at this hostel. It was super small. Two single beds and I put my luggage standing upright, there’s no space to walk in between and the toilet is super small!
We went to this dim sum place for brunch. It was the old school kind, with decors of the 60′s. Lin Heung Tea House. I kept a copy of their namecard. apparently the name of this tea house never left my mind. It’s those kind where you watch TVB dramas when they go for tea. We got seated in a big table. they don’t have small tables for individual groups so you share your table. Waiters come by with a pushcart and you take what you want to eat. We learnt how to drink tea from the traditional cup with the lids on (You know, those cups that the emperors used to drink from?), thanks to this really friendly elderly couple who saw that we fumbled quite abit with the cup! They event treated us to a plate of dimsum. It’s not all expensive, and we even went back for brunch the next day!
one thing to note, their char siew bao is really delicious! hee, we didn’t manage to have them on the first visit. On the second visit thanks to Annabel cos she waited for the trolley right outside their kitchen that the chef or waiter took pity on her, and gave her a set of it. heh!
Lin Heung Tea House 蓮香樓
160-164 Wellington Street,
Central, Hong Kong.
Open 6am to 11:30pm (closed bet. 4:30 to 5:30pm)