Hong Kong Revisited II - Part I

After some long off from international travel, it's time to travel and unwind. This trip is not so much of visiting places but rather to relax and go easy as the motto was 'Relax and Unwind'. Yes, it's Hong Kong again if you may ask.


The night scene from the peak, after a long queue though.

Enrolled at the Cathay Pacific, the package comes with a 3 day 2 nights stay in Hong Kong, inclusive of flight tickets and airport transfer, quite a nice deal, check it out!


Hong Kong Airport.


The airport transfer services, Vigor coach buses to hotels.

We decided to revisit Lanson Place, we had a nice experience with them, since it is a relax and unwind trip, we just wanted less hassle and less research on hotels. We were surprise on two things, we were given free upgrade to deluxe room, but we were not given complimentary breakfast. This means more costs as the breakfast is now a costly HKD 60 per person.


The entrance of the deluxe room


Queen sized bed.


Part of the bathroom.


Quite a nice environment for relax tour, choose Lanson Place.

The first thing to do in Hong Kong is definitely food. Having sampled Salon de the Joel Robuchon in taiwan, we went to Le Salon de the Joel Robuchon in Hong Kong, the Landmark to savour the high tea. The restaurant is adwarded Michelin 2 stars.


Overlooking the escalator in the Landmark


Overlooking another restaurant the 'La Terrazza'


The high tea costed $240 which is RM99 for 2 ( conversion rate RM 1 = HKD 2.42 ) , I think it 's quite worth it.


While waiting for food... we ordered the Pastries Set for 2


The home made strawberry jam with Devonshire clotted cream


The scones of different shapes, lemon and raisins scones


Milky and buttery taste just perfect scone


The small cup of Machiato Cafe and Cafe Latte. The Machiato is too strong and bitter to my liking


Blueberry cheese cake and Petit Fours


From left, Paris-brest, Mont-blanc, Macaroon ganache.


A slice of cake,, Exotique.


The array of sweet items.


The blueberry tinge of sourness with the mild cheese blends in nicely and very aesthetically pleasing with gold flakes.


The small but nice macaron.

Overall the pastries set is very nice, scones were served cold, if warmed would be better. I recommend this to those who likes to enjoy high tea. For Rm50 per person, it can't get any better, also you get to enjoy Michelin 2 stars restaurant food.

Hong Kong Revisited II - Part II

The following day, we ventured across the sea to Tsimshatsui(尖沙咀) area to visit a heritage site namely 1881 Heritage. Formerly the Hong Kong Marine Police Headquarters, now refurbished commercial area and also a high class boutique hotel, Hullet House. At the time of writing the Hullet House is going for rates of HKD4,000 a night.


1881 Heritage area


Adjacent building to 1881 Heritage


Camera savvy with cartoon motives


The directions to ???


Another view of the 1881 Heritage


The layout of 1881 Heritage

The 1881 Heritage is new, nice but lacks the historical ambiance that will strike the value. However, if you have spare time, and don't mind the traveling, you could give it a try. We then proceed to the Harbour City Shopping Mall for shopping and searching for food.


Spasso Italian Bar looks inviting ... located at the 4th Floor.


Magnificent view Hong Kong harbour ...


Nice surroundings ... green ...


The staff were preparing for a wedding reception, very nicely decorated ...


The Spasso menu, HKD500 per person is just too hefty for me ...

We then resorted to eat in the food court and it was a blessing in disguise will I will reveal later, but first, the food court food.


Fish ball noodle ... HKD 38


Fish biscuits and noodle soup also HKD 38

After the canto style 'fast-food' we went on shopping and exploring and then went for a famous cream brulee shop french style.


Paul Lafayet, french pastries ... located at 18 Hanoi Road, Tsim Sha Tsui, in a posh shopping complex.


It was actually a very small shop selling french pastries ... like ..


The people lining for the pastries.


Cream Brulee with the container, the cute container is given away too.


What is french pastries without macarons ?


And coffee orange cake with Mille-feuille.


Mille-feuille is a layered pastries with cream slice, typical French pastry.


Coffee orange cake is pyramid in design with cream cheese, coffee and cake.


Yummy , yummy ...


And a host of other pastries ...


And the damage is HKD 120 roughly Rm50. Each of those costs RM 16.50

After all the walking and exploring, it is back to the Hotel for rest. Later in the evening, we decided the visit the peak at night, during the previous Hong Kong trips, we never visited the peak at night. And it was a long walk and wait till the ticketing counter


That's a lot of people going up the peak at night. It was a long wait too ...


The jam and the open top bus.


Long queue to the tram.


Still waiting to go up the tram.


Up we go, not this one, this is a miniature tram.

And lastly, like all the other crazy bunch of people that goes up to the peak, we wanted to view Hong Kong from the highest peak.



I would say, you had better plan to trip to the peak wisely, probably you could also catch the fireworks, we waited for half an hour, thinking that we could get a glimpse of the nice show, but it wasn't to be, but then, the view is still fantastic. I should let it on longer exposure but the wind was quite strong, the tripod was swaying too.