Holiday in Hong Kong with Hubby and Baby --- Day 2

We had a very early start for Day 2 because of the free half day tour.  Anyway, we were very lucky with this tour as initially, we were suppose to meet at another hotel in Tsim Sha Tsui.. but we got a message that the tour company will come and pick us up from our hotel instead.  So yay we don't need to wake up so early afterall. 

Hubby and I decided to have our breakfast in the hotel itself as the bus will come and pick us up at 8.45am.  Anyway, we went for the buffet breakfast and well.. we have come to a conclusion that any hotel in Malaysia can serve better breakfast. 

The tour starts of by bringing us to visit the Typhoon shelter area where it was optional for us to pay for the boat ride visiting the fishing boats and boathouse.  While we were on the boat ride I was more impressed with the yachts that was docked there! For eg:

Dream Yachts

 

More Dream Yachts

Boat House

So after the boat ride, the tour took us to a Jewellery Factory and as expected like what we went through in China, they have to lock you inside a small room explaining their history blah blah blah before they allow you to walk around the retail area.  Clearly, we were not interested to get any jewellery from there so it took us 10mins and we were out of there.  After the jewellery factory, we adjourned to visit the Tin Hau Temple at Clear Water Bay and also the beach.  The temple was crowded with tourist from all over the world. 

The last stop was at the peak.  We decided not to follow the bus back down to Central as we would like to experience the tram ride.  And also, I was getting hungry and I saw Mak's Noodle and that's one of the restaurants that was highly recommended online... so the more reason to stay longer up on the peak.  So hubby just snap snap a few pics and off we go to the Mak's Noodle for more noodles and wanton!  But after what we had the night before Mak's Noodle seems nothing special anymore.  Even the wantons cannot beat what we had the first night.

View of Central from the Peak

Prawn Roe Noodles

Wanton Noodle

After lunch,we took the tram down to Central and walk and walk and walk towards Lan Kwai Fong to get the famous egg tarts.  After asking for directions and finally we found THE place also highly recommended online for egg tarts.  The bakery is called Tai Cheong  Bakery.  There were also chicken and bbq pork pie so we bought one each and 4 egg tarts.  Guess what we got cheated! We didn't see when they were packing the egg tarts so we assume everything was in order.  And what a surprise when we went back to the hotel for a break we decided to try the egg tarts and guess what there were only 3 in the box! Not going back there anymore!  By the way, the pies taste much better than the egg tarts.

As some of my friends are probably aware, I'm so addicted to watching TVB dramas that I was looking forward to check out Lan Kwai Fong... you know with the steep road with pubs by the side eventhough I can't drink now but just to see what is it like.  Unfortunately, what we found was the street called Lan Kwai Fong flat street with no pubs :( Also, we remember clearly in almost all TVB dramas we see them walking down a very long flight of staircase and finally just when we were about to give up hope we found it!

We didn't do much exploring in Central itself so we decided to leave and went to Citygate Outlet Mall and bought nothing there as things were not as cheap as I thought they will be! After that we decided to go back to the hotel and rest before going out again for dinner.

Of course, while we were resting I took every opportunity to watch some TVB dramas! LOL Anyway, because we had the pies and tarts for tea we had late dinner at Ladies Market.  Again, we will walk from one end to the other end looking for dinner (by the way there were many Japanese Restaurants along Ladies Market) and end up in this restaurant that serves everything under one roof from roast meat to fried rice.  We ordered 'pot rice' with pork and salted fish, a plate of vegie, roast duck & char siew and beef fried rice.  Out of all that I have just mentioned, only the fried rice was good.  The 'pot rice' was the biggest mistake I made for ordering it coz the pork smell was so strong that I couldn't take it so I end up swaping with chris for his lovely beef fried rice.  I told Chris NO MORE PORK in HK!