10 Days trip - fourth stop Hong Kong!

if i'm not wrong, this is in the train from GZ to HK!

arrived! trish has motion sickness so every time we travel, she will instantly sleep. leaving me to entertain myself the whole. ride. hahaha...

trish say she feels happier in hong kong because i know the place well. haha.. actually i also a tourist mar.. also not very sure...

the first minivan that trish took. but it was a really rough ride! like the bas mini here. the moment we alight, trish terus say she want to vomit ... panic me!

the condo that my friend in HK stayed at. came down terus saw "Fisherman's Wharf" right in front. ahhahaa... gosh. first in macau now in hk. behind the condo, there's a nice place that people jog and just take a walk after meal.. very nice and relaxing. this was something i discovered during my first trip here. really misses this place.

after dropping off our luggage, we came down for 'mah lat mien'... another sze chuan noodle. ahhaha... seems interesting but i think trish was concern with the layer of oil. hahaha... superb! came out crying!

then i took trisha next door to this famous dessert shop. the menu was all in chinese and so we asked the girl to patiently explain to us what they have but the ingredients she mentioned in chinese we also unsure what is it! hahhaa...

trish ordered the black. i ordered the white! just happened so! hahaha... hers is hot. mine is cold! we are THAT different! all the time.

her friend told her that gong cha is a must try so ever since we arrived, i think trish tried one flavor every day. i only try one on the very last day!

after lunch, we loiter and shop around that area. can't remember if we bought anything but that area can really 'be shopped'! waited for my friend to come back from work and have dinner together. she came with her two sons and we ended up in a japanese restaurant that posted the notice outside to say "we will try as much as we can not to use products imported from japan" due to the radiation. hhahaha... my friend is actually quite a funny mother! then after dinner, she took us to try this shaved ice dessert! yummy! her son wanted the yogurt but she didnt want so she tried in all sorts of ways to deter him but ended up we got that flavour too! hahaha.. interesting!

the next morning, trish went with me to visit my grand uncle and aunty. they are in their seventies. and when i insisted to pay for the meal, she took the bill and sat on it not allowing me to pay wor! hahaha... i mean even trish can see they really sayang us by ordering a lot for us to eat. ahahaa.. they've been saying wanting to visit malaysia one more time but because of his health, it would be difficult for him to travel... dizzy lah, need to lie down lah... and instead of taking pocket money from me, they gave me pocket money to spend in hong kong! every time after visiting them i become emo... cos i misses them. they stay at sheung shui and to my amazement, i even remember how to walk from the station to their flat!

the thing i'm not used to when taking the minivan in hk is that i have to shout when i want to alight. feels super weird! hahahaha...

we came back from my grand uncle's place and went roaming the hong kong streets. some interesting stuffs. some not so interesting. some rude vendors. some friendly vendors.

we almost didnt try this because trish didnt want me to be left out cos i wont be able to eat the famous double boiled milk dessert but i insisted that she try because it's really good. so i took the steamed egg instead. IT WAS REALLY GOOD! SO GOOD THAT I CAN STILL WANT IT! =P

see how clean the bowl you'll know how good it was lor.

for dinner, we ended up in a food court. i had udon but trish went to get the yam pie from mcd as she really really wanted to try it.

next morning, we woke up earlier, went to mc cafe for breakfast. see the other family in the photo, they are koreans! the toddler so cute.

trish has this MINI DIANA camera that she brings around (a new toy from her birthday presents) and so we went to hunt for the shop that sells diana's accessories. took a bus from the apartment and alight outside the science museum and walk to the shop.. only to find out that they open around 12pm... two hours from then.

we then went to walk around and discovered the stars avenue. the one i didnt go the last trip. we also took a walk down and trish was like having the time of her life shooting photographs from all three cameras! hahaha

then we rushed off to tung chung which was so far away and discovered the outlet malls and went crazy shopping at all the branded goods... and bought a lot of stuffs from the Esprit and then rushed off to CENTRAL to meet my supplier. She bought us the 'put chai kou' cupcake! hhaha.. and she's pregnant! She called me from the streets cos she say she saw me wearing MM shoes. She was wearing a pair too!

then we rushed back to loomography shop to get the films for diana and rushed up to take the tram up to the peak. took some photos and rushed back down to meet my friend for dinner. we were super super late. supposed to meet at 7pm, we arrived around 9pm or later. we took the doubledecker bus down from the peak. i was kinda concern for trish sake and true enough, the moment we arrive, she went straight to the toilet and vomited .. poor her. the price to pay for enjoying travel with motion sickness.

this time we had dinner with the husband and the two sons. japanese buffet pulak. ahhaha... i think this trip we had japanese 3 times in the ten days. i think the kids like jap-food.

after the buffet, he insisted we try the 'chau tau foo' (smelly fried tofu).

see trish's seriously in doubt face?! hahaha.. it's really stinky but the taste not bad. smells sourish like rotten spoiled food. and that's the younger son. ziqi.

that's trish and the older son. zijing. so funny expressions! i was having gastric that time and didnt try. the dad quickly bought me gastric pills.

THIS is the view from my friend's house! amazing isn't it. just love it.

next morning, we had breakfast, final shopping, grabbed our bags and went to take the ferry back to macau and fly off from there!

we were quite late and had to run all the way to catch the ferry!

since we found about the free rides from the casinos, we alight from the ferry, took the shuttle to the venetian hotel and walk to the other shuttle from the hotel to the airport. all for free! yeah! save all the money! waited for the check in, bought some last minute biscuits and off we flew back to KL! hahaha... Chris Leong came and pick us up around 2+am andby the time we reach home, i was ready to crash all the way! hahahaha....

one thing trish said about this trip was that it's the first time she travelling in asian countries (i didnt know that) but in this trip, we both experienced so much more on being a local than being a tourists. in macau we stayed at the residential area instead of the hotel, in gz, we had a local taking us to all the local places and in hk, we stayed a residential area also and the visit to my grand uncle n aunty's place was like seriously looking into the old ppl's lifestyle playing chess under the trees... all the real lifestyle of local people in each places. a different experience altogether! =)

and i finally completed the ten days trip posts before the next trip! phew!

10 Days trip - third stop Guangzhou!

Guangzhou was kind a last minute add on that we decided to go. But mostly, I wanted to go stock in or at least scout for some stocks. But in the end I didnt buy anything because I didnt want to stock in imitation goods! and everywhere I see, it's seriously 'inspired by' this brand or that brand.

We just arrived via a bus from Macau. Met with my friend's friend and the first comment he gave was that "yah.. i heard from sendy that malaysians like to wear flip flops when going out." Me and Trish was like *blank-face + huh?!-is-that-a-problem?* but by then of course we know that everyone is well-puffed before they exit and we were walking around in flip flops and without makeup. hahaha... ohwell..

we were really glad for a decent room after the two nights of shivering in cold in macau. after check in, we went lunch. they prepacked the utensils and bowls and plates but we still need to rinse it with the hot water. means still not so clean lah..??

Guess what! the first place he (my friend's friend = LZH) took us to a museum?! We were like.. "no.. it's ok. we can go other places." he insisted and it's the first time we meet him so we dare not be too forceful but after 30mins, Trish is already bored to tears. So we speed up the walking so that we can come out faster. hahahaha...

Ok. Here's the thing - the museum is actually a tomb of one of the rulers in that area years ago. they dug his tomb and turned it into a museum and display all the artifacts! So, it was quite a weird experience for me! hahaha...

So this is the actual tomb. when the ruler died, all his wives, favourite concubine and their favourite servants were all buried with their favourite jewellery and gold and such. So the space u see below has different 'chamber' which they were buried according to their importance .. which we can now walk in to see. Not sure if it was interesting or eerie but yah.. i went in too out of curiosity and came out fast fast! But i guess it's a tough job being the ruler's favourite since you'll have to be buried with him when he die... err.... good thing it's no longer legal now.

when we came out, we saw this off duty officers playing a game so naturally we took a photo!

a candy store. after i took a shot, she say, "NO photo taking" forcefully. so i stopped. but not sure what's the harm done?! competition? er... ??

besides a lot of candies, everywhere i see a lot of ppl! imagine the queue in every shop. seriously long. i see the queue, i decided not to buy d lah...

that's trisha trying to get a drink. see the cute little her trying to squeeze in...? she's desperate already at that point where she declared herself to be dehydrated! hahaha...

we continued walking and didnt buy anything to my LZH's uneasiness. hahaha.. he was pretty sure were going to run amok and buy and buy and buy.. end up we didnt get anything and went dinner. i forgot what did we had.

this was the next morning's breakfast, a few shops away from our hotel. soya milk and dumplings and pau. all eat dry and bland. but it was interesting. i didnt really mind for the new tryout. ahahhaha... i think the first night we each bought a padded winter jacket. Mine's YELLOW! hahaha..

and the day started... with walking all the wholesalers... OMGEEEEEEEE... we seriously walked soooooo much. but hardly bought anything. lzh was like "if you two split up and walk maybe will be more fruitful" - he's caught on. me n trish almost always like different things and could hardly agree on something we both think is nice and worth buying. ahhahaa..

finished walking for i think 4 hours or so then went lunch. LZH got to know that we eat spicy so we ended up in this spicy restaurant. sit in and i was excited already... after days of no chilli, this is good!! hahaha...

green colour all is chilli ok! good! i like this!

fish! good. super spicy. i like!

my friend was suffering... so we went for dessert to cool down! hahhaa..

by dinnertime, he was suffering already! but this time, it's the szechuan food. and seriously, when he open the menu, he can already fear the spiciness! ahahhaa... but the best. seriously the best szechuan i've tried. made me so missed it that i started searching for sze chuan food when i came back!

that's the beef and the chicken cubes i think. both extreme spicy! the chicken cubes was too salty for me after a while. but the beef... ooo... tenderness yo!

the spiciness can numb your tongue and your lips goodness me! after 5 mins, we were all numbed but trish was saying "not spicy also".. ahhahaha.. she GENG ah!

both me and trish are vege eaters and trish can survive on salad everyday kind of person. so naturally, we will eat this vege a lot... but in actual fact, my friend ordered this so that he can have one dish that's not spicy and after a while, he told us not to invade his dish anymore else he would have nothing to eat! hahahah... we of course stopped lor but the vege was soooo good! it's call "hoi sui pak choy" which means literally "cabbage cook in water" (or something like that) because the soup looks clear but in reality, it clear chicken soup. so ... i love it! yet to find it in kl though.

another dish call "sui chu yue" literal translation to 'fish cook in water'. goodness! spicy!!!! but yummy!! remembering all these now is making me so want to eat them again.

after the long walking days, we went back, drop all the packages and went to massage! yeah! the difference between massage here and there is this. Here, we emphasize on 'feeling'.. the slow and relaxing movements to help you relax, unwind, breathe... there.. it's like 'make it worth the money'! a lot fast and hard rubbing! but after the super worth the money session, we feel totally loosen up! good!

they first make us soak in this hot, traditional herbal water. murky and black.

back and neck massage. later went to another room for a full body massage. while were in this room, there's a huge lcd screen tv that was showing one of the current hong kong series (the story was set in the olden days)... i can see that trish do not really understand. every time there was a funny part, everyone in the room laugh except trish! ahaah...

since yesterday was the last night and i didnt buy stocks so i bought for myself! the jeans jacket is new! =)

and finally remember to have one picture with lzh! in fact, the only picture. ahhaha.. taken right before the ride in the train to hong kong.

trish took this when we were taking the escalator in the guangzhou train station. we were really blessed in this trip because lzh paid for almost everything from the cab rides even to the hotel and all the food. except one lunch i paid and of course if we buy things, we paid lah.. but other than that.... he paid for everything else.

that's the end to GZ... heading on to HK! yahoo!