Hongkong Trip Part II

HK - 27 Jul 2011

Ocean park today! But first, we decided to go and look for the famous dim sum restaurant, Lin Heung teahouse, for breakfast. 3 years ago, we failed to locate this place and had been moody over it ever since as we saw recommendations from almost everyone who visited HK. And yes, we managed to find the place this time.

It is really a typical HK teahouse, where there are many old folks reading newspaper while chatting over tea, aunties shouting "siew mai" while pushing carts of dimsum around the teahouse. Tried the Siew Mai, Lo Mai Gai, Char Siew Buns, etc. Not bad but not really fantastic we think, though I really like the ambience.

Lin Heung Teahouse was located in Central. To me, this place is like the CBD of HK. However, it really amazes me that there was a stretch of shops (like wet market) along a slope right smack in the middle of all these atas stores in the CBD area.

Reached ocean park at around 11am. There were so many people and the weather was terribly hot and humid. First to the aquarium. I still think that sg's underwater world is better.

My main purpose of visiting ocean park is to see the pandas! It was so cooling inside the panda enclosure that all the giant pandas were happily snoring away. One of it gave a lazy stretch and looked up at the tourists, then went back to it's beauty sleep. Red pandas are very cute too, managed to catch one eating.

Took the cable car up to the summit. Though it is quite scary, but the view was gorgeous! Shared the cable car with a middle aged couple who were fellow singaporeans. As both of us are not fans of exciting rides, we just walked around.

Queued for the ocean park tower. View was fantastic from up there too but the ride was too fast. Before we know it, it was descending back down.

Next, to the pacific pier to check out the sea lions. They are so cute! Swam gracefully too!

The next must-see, according to hubby, is the chinese sturgeon. They have lived in the Yangtze river for 140million years, since dinosaur era?

By this time, we were so hot and sweaty and tired and we decided to leave. Took the super comfortable ocean express back to waterfront. Good bye ocean park! Bought a sea lion cum cushion for baby zq.

Had a late lunch at around 330pm at 生记粥面 opposite our hotel. Hubby had 清汤萝卜牛肉面 while I had 皮蛋瘦肉粥. Hubby's soup was good and my porridge was fantastic. What was special about it was that the lean meat was shredded and there is a mouthful of pork with every spoon of porridge. The porridge was very tasty and smooth. Yummy!

Had a rest back in our hotel before we proceeded for shopping at Mongkok. Shopped at Argyle center and H&M at Langham Place. My loots for the day!

Ever since 3 years ago, my hubby's HK fren brought us to this small dessert shop at Tsim Sha Tsui, I have been thinking about it and craving for it. The soy bean curd is so smooth that it really slides down your throat. Nowhere can match it. Went to look for it but it is gone! Though we don't really remember on which exact road it was, but we had a vague idea where it is near. However, we walked all the streets near Tsim Sha Tsui but cannot find it. Sad! No choice, went to Sweet Dynasty for a very late dinner at 930pm.