Hong Kong Revisited II

After a long rest from travelling, it's time to update this blog with some data. Hats off to wifey for the planning and scheduling, I totally sit back and relax. Recalling that I have done the planning to Italy, a swap of 'job role' is immensely satisfying.

Woke up early, prepared and got a taxi to the 'small' international airport of Penang.

Bayan lepas airport at dawn with some reflection of the glass :-)

The flight is full and we took off slightly late and the dreadful wait on the plane lasted for 3 hours.

Rolls Royce Trent 800 jet engine flying on Cathay Pacific flight

Another 1 hour transit time wasted on the bus to our hotel. It's a boutique hotel, Lanson Place at CausewayBay(銅鑼灣).

Lanson Place plaque at the entrance.

Map on google.

The concierge area or lobby of Lanson Place

The room that we checked in Lanson Place. Not huge but clean and cosy.

Queen size bed overlooking a school though.

The complementary breakfast serving area. A nice surprise that the package included a complementary breakfast, can save some extra cash :)

Serving area

The breakfast lounge.


The hotel library, I didn't have time to go through books.

Some effects on the chandelier.

Snapshot of Lanson Place.

Off to more shopping and eating ...

Hong Kong - Revisited I

Hong Kong island is rather polluted, the air quality is quite bad. But then, the food and shopping is the major motivation to go out and venture.


Some road near Lanson Place

I noticed in Hong Kong a lot of crabs for sale, I wonder if Hongkies actually like the crabs.


Not so auspicious words to some ...

We managed to find a famous 'wan ton mee' stall and the 'wan ton mee' is actually quite pricey. Snapshot of the menu below:


I took the HK$28 'wan ton mee'


A sneak shot of the small bowl of 'wan ton mee'

After a snack, it is shopping time, the 'Landmark' is one of the new shopping area.


Snapshot out from the shopping mall window, overlooking a street


Huge Christmas tree decoration


Snapshot outside 'Time Square' shopping mall.

We ventured into city super and took time to slowly overview the stuffs in the grocery shops.

Evening shot outside of Times Square

Tsim Sha Tsui harbour area.

Old vessel 'Bounty' in new age Hong Kong.

Another shot at Harbour shopping centre

Ferry docked near the Harbour area

Evening shot of the tallest building in Hong Kong

Panoramic evening shot

We did travel to a lot of good food stalls, I didn't take photos of all of it.

One of the best fish congee place in 'Wan Chai', nice congee, highly recommended.

As usual the sardine subway, crazy packed.

Hong Kong is a place where you walk till you drop :-)