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.
Friday, September 24, 2010
Hong Kong Revisited II - Part II
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1881 Heritage,
Hullet House,
Paul Lafayet,
Spasso Italian Bar,
The Peak
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