Hong Kong revisited: Day 2

It was pretty much a free and easy day so YL and I ventured out for an early dimsum at the dimsum place I ate in last year. Tau Heung, at 3F Silvercord Mall, corner of Haiphong and Canton Road. Cheap, delicious, and because we had to share a table with two other families, we got to mingle with the locals. Not being able to read Chinese was quite a drag when it came to the menu, but there was a HKD$1 bowl of dumpling in chili oil on promotion that morning. And it was good. Only thing missing were the pushcarts. Did some research online about this place and the dimsum here's apparently made to order, and it's also cheaper compared to other places like Maxim's, the popular dimsum place at City Hall.


HKD$1 dumplings on the left and some other stuff we had...

Then it was off to Central on the Star Ferry.
From there we took a tram to Sheung Wan, walked around the old rustic part of the city, past the dried seafood, sharks fins and birds nests (even dried star fish), up to Possession Point and down Hollywood Road which led us to Gage St, one of my favourite streets in Hong Kong (I also like Peel St among others). It's like a long wet market, but we weren't hungry yet, so we looked for Tai Cheung Bakery at Lyndhurst Terrace, the place for famous egg tarts.


We shared one, and it's the best egg tart I've ever tasted. It's the best... Flaky melt-in-the-mouth pastry, wobbly egg custard, all straight out of the oven. It's the beesssstttt.... We later found out they had a branch in the food court at the shopping mall connecting to our hotel.

We then explored the escalators abit and then back to Gage St where we had tea and coffee at Lan Fong Yuen, a very popular place for char chan teng stuff. It certainly was an authentic place, though the char chan teng style of coffee and tea was too sweet and cloying for me. Opposite is the a roast meat shop which Anthony Bourdain himself had been to. Now this place was a disappointment. Not only was the siew yoke (roast pork) expensive, it wasn't very good. The roast pork I had last year at another eatery in Hankow Rd at TST was better by leaps and bounds. Stuffed, we hopped over to TST by MTR to check out Muji, Uniqlo and a few other shops at a shopping mall. There were some pretty good bargains. As well as some very nice shoes. Our feet were already killing us by then, so we decided to head back to the hotel to rest.

I couldn't sleep, and decided to go back to Hui Lau Shan and had a whole mango pudding all to myself. Aaahhhh.... bliss. Totally content, I took a walk, exploring the Flower Market and Bird Market (right behind the hotel), ho hum ho hum, nothing much there, though the flowers were pretty. Sigh, what I would do for that mango pudding right now. Smooth mangoey pudding in thick mango juice, topped with juicy mango pieces and a scoop of mango sorbet. Slurp...

Later that evening, it was the company dinner at Lai Yue Mun. It was a bumpy ride by ferry to the fishing village, with booze a plenty along the way. Knocked down a couple of beers and I was all happy by the time we reached the restaurant. Of course I wasn't as looked as I drunk, despite my red bonkey mackside face and bloodshot eyes. The food was decent. And there was even a baked lobster in cheese. Wahhh... No pictures cos my batteries decided to go a little wonky on me then. After dinner was a ride up some lookout point, and we went back to our hotel. KO-ed in no time. Heh.

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