5th day

I got to sleep in today b/c Uncle Albert and I decided to go out for buffet @ a close-by hotel. It was $198 HKD per person. The food was D-E-L-I-C-I-O-U-S compared to Canada's buffet standards and the choices blew me away too. There was fresh sashimi; the salmon was fatty and they even had red tuna. The tilipia fillets were good too (tai sashimi); way better than Richmond sushi's and Sui Sha Ya's. They had a Haagen Dazs counter for ice cream and a chocolate fountain. They also had a bbq station with various bbq'd meats, roast beef, and the other typical stuff you find @ classy buffets. Their salad bar wasn't too awesome though (River Rock casino's salad bar outdid them). The same applies for their roast beef; it didn't have any "beef" taste to it.

Heading out later to TST to shop around before having dinner with Uncle Khong @ 6:30.

Edit:

Didn't buy anything and went to this ghetto lookin place for dinner but the food was good. Better than the buffet earlier haha.

4th day

Woke up early to have breakfast with my uncle and aunt (bew kow fu and his wife) in Sheung Wan. We had dim sum and yea, I eat curry squid for breakfast every morning now haha. Another good dish there was a steamed prawn ball with mushroom attached to the bottom. Didn't take pics : (

Afterwards, just ran some errands with my Uncle and headed home to rest up.

Then I went out to the Wangpao area and finally bought a pair of glasses for $1020 HKD. The frame is made in Japan :D

Afterwards, went to a nearby toy store and copped these for my bro:

Now I'm doing some online assessments for physics which are due soon. Then gonna head out later for dinner w/ Poon and look around for clothes and some ring he wants :S

Edit:

After doing my hwk, went out to chill @ Martin's house for a bit to plan for the weekend. Then we went out for hotpot @ this place called Po Po.

The food was pretty good; again like last time, it's different from the food I usually eat. Afterwards, just headed home and played some Pokemon Yellow before going to sleep.

HK : 3rd day

Doing this rant today cuz I was too lazy/sleepy to type it up last night:

So woke up around 8:30 went for dim sum at Fung Sing (go here everyday for breakfast basically). Ordered the usual stuff, nothing new. Then went out to get my HK ID card done. Took about 1.5 hours to go through with the whole process. Then went back home and headed out to meet up with Poon.

He just woke up (around 2pm lol) and we went to some cafe. I had the baked pork chop rice. He just had some instant noodles.

Afterwards, we got lost trying to find how to get to Miramar shopping center. Took us about 1 hour to get there. We went in like 2 circles before finally finding it. I copped Alex's raw jeans (w/ da selvedge) @ uniqlo. Wasn't able to find Patty's jeans. They ran out of 31's.

Then we went to Mong Kok just browsing shoes and clothes. I didn't end up getting anything but Martin got 2 zipups @ Esprit. Spent around 2 hours in Mong Kok before going back home.

Yea so it took us around another 2 hours to get home cuz we couldn't find our shuttle bus lmao. Oh well. For dinner, we went to this taiwanese noodle place (forgot to take pics). It was good. Noodles were chewy and the beef was good. After that, I wanted to eat more food so we headed out to McD's; We got a Filet-O-Fish meal and a Grilled Chicken Sandwich (freaking got my wrong order as I wanted a crispy chicken but I was alright with the grilled sandwich too b/c I never tried it before). Then just went home, hung for a bit. He went home and I slept.

2nd day in HK

The day started off with me waking up real early thanks to jet lag. Just killed time by talking on msn and watching youtube vids. Then I went out for dim sum with Uncle Albert @ the same place as yesterday. Ordered some typical stuff like beef tripe, rice rolls and I decided to try out their "lao sah bao" to see if they were any good. Their "low sah bao" doesn't exactly "lao" that well as shown by the pic below. It was real solid but I did taste a bunch of egg yolk which I gave a tiny plus. Overall, one of my family's favourite dim sum place in vancity has lao sah baos that will just straight up kill these. Was disappointed with the quality of the baos here.

Then afterwards, headed home and chilled for a bit. Headed out to Miramar Tower to do some shopping. Ended up with a pair of uniqlo (made in japan chyeah) for real cheap cuz of some promotion. Uncle Albert paid for this being my bro's red pocket gift so I don't have to bring money home with me on the plane trip again. Pics will be up tomorrow cuz the lighting really sucks right now (it's 12am here).

Then checked out IFC tower @ Central to check out their Levi's LVC. They wanted $3000HKD for a pair of jeans. Nah man, I'm alright hahaha. Looks like I might not end up buying any jeans in HK.

Following that, I went to Central's Optical 88 for a pair of glasses; nothing stood out so I went to Tai Koo Sing's Optical 88. They had a much better selection but none of them were "me". Looks like I may not be getting glasses in HK either.

We were getting hungry and ended up at some HK-style cafe that I had been to before on last time's trip to HK (the one with the good pork chop buns). I ordered squid balls with ho fun. The ho fun was thin and delicious. The squid balls were awesome; they actually tasted like squid vs Canada's crap.

After that, went to City Chain (watch distributor) and ended up getting a Casio G-shock for a decent price as well (cheaper than Canada). After the purchase, we headed back home to rest.

Then I went out with my homie Martin to Harbour City shopping centre and hung out for 2 hours just browsing around shops. I didn't end up getting anything cuz they sold a bunch of high end stuff at prices I wasn't willing to pay. Nothing really stood out either. Ah well.

Anyways, went out for dinner with his mom and dad later at some restaurant serving Shanghai style food. The dishes were quite decent and were "different" from the usual HK style food I eat while outside. The dessert was some egg bread pastry with red bean pastry filling. Overall, the meal was filling (cuz we ordered too much haha) and was good. Now I'm back home finishing up this rant before going off to bed to KO jet lag.

Night all.

1st day in HK

The plane trip wasn't that bad actually. I logged in around six hours sleep total and arrived in HK at around 7:45am (their time). The plane had more than 30 movies, 70 "video games" (although not play-worthy), and 20+ tv series to choose between. They also had playable CD tracks and radio channels for music varying from cpop, jpop, and kpop. I ended up watching "The Invention of Lying", "Speed", "Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs" and some various other tv shows.

Now onto the flight meals (sorry, didn't take pics of it cuz I was too hungry and the though of taking a pic of my meal didn't come to my mind). Had the supper first:

- Red bliss potato salad with smoked salmon (this was quite good)

- Sweet and sour chicken with veggies and steamed jasmine rice (which I picked vs the other choices and it was quite decent; I love sweet and sour stuff)

- Apple cheese cake (I actually ate this too and it was decent; just didn't like the cheesy-ness of it)

-Coke (diggin the caffeine so I could stay awake to watch more movies)

Breakfast was:

-Fresh fruit

-Fruit yoghurt (did not want, did not eat)

-Warm croissant with ham and egg sandwich (ate but was "meh")

-Coffee (more caffeine so more movie time)

Yea, the person who was scheduled to sit in the middle of my row didn't show so the guy @ the other end and me just sat real comfy. Overall, it was a pleasant ride.

After getting picked up by my uncle, I just went over to his house and unpacked my stuff to get settled. Then we went out for dim sum (it wasn't super awesome but it was alright). Shrimp dumplings were a bit small and weren't oh em gee delicious. Mixed mushroom rice rolls only contained 2 diff kinds of mushroom vs the usual 3 back in BC (it was alright). Beef omasum sucked haha. Beef balls w/ beancurds were "meh". Uncle Albert seems to like it there though. Then he just showed me how to get around by foot, shuttle bus, and MTR from the home location. Didn't end up buying anything today (so far); it's only 3:22pm over here.

Edit: Slept from around 4pm till 8:30-ish. Then went out to a random place to eat. Ended up with this:

Veggies were decent. Sweet and sour pork sucked; worse than Cathay Pacific , hah! Then just went to a local Wellcome supermarket and copped some oranges as well as

Anyways, that's a wrap for today's rant. Hi Kevin, Mom and Dad : D

@ YVR preparing for departure

About 1.5 hours left till the boarding gates open and I'll be on my wonderful 14 hour trip to HK. Kinda stoked about all the shopping but I'll be missing all the great stuff that home provides. No messing around with my bro, no home cooked meals, no car talk. No going to Patty's for rengou vs zaft breaks while studying, no running the Terry Fox run, no bball-ing, biking and all that buttery goodness.

On a side note, I'll be updating this blog daily (hopefully) with pics.

Hope everyone has an awesome reading break and Happy Chinese New Year to all!

Hello World!

Just had myself a relaxing weekend. On friday, celebrated Alex Chen's 19th birthday. We went out to Insadong for dinner. Hm... for about $23/person (including tax and tips), it was pretty decent. Props to Amaris Tok for being our bbq cook and recommending us a good set for dinner. What stood out for me was the seafood pancake.

Inside were shrimp and squid bits. Tastes quite different from usual things that I eat. The dinner was also composed up of bbq meats (beef, chicken, shrimp, oyster) and overall, it was a "fun" dinner.

On Saturday, went out with family to River Rock Casino for their lunch buffet. Their salads and desserts were good; however, the same cannot be said for their entrees. Their roast beef sucked, it was dry and too tough. They had an Asian food section which sucked (spring rolls with cabbage inside, chow mein that tasted like white ppl chow mein even though the chefs were asian). White ppl food section: glazed carrots (who goes to buffets to eat glazed carrots anyways?), buttered brocolli, bbq spare ribs (that tasted worse than microwave-able ones you can find from your local Costco), etc. So definitely not worth the $17/person it costed us. Pop, iced tea and coffee are bottomless though (if that helps?).

After lunch just went out grocery shopping @ Aberdeen Centre and China World. Stocked up on junk food and stuff. Btw, China World sells asian Vita juice (4 packs for $10) at a decent price.

Didn't do much afterwards, just relaxed and started on the hwk.

Surviving on this nowadays during school day studying: