It was my first trip to Hong Kong and it was the May Holidays in China. No doubt it was considered peak period as I could not get a seat to fly out of Singapore on Cathay Pacific and, eventually, had to take United Airlines. (Jet Star was not cheap either for the same flying period.) United was relatively good, and it is part of Star Alliance, so I got to accrue miles too.) Departed Singapore at 6.40 am and arrived in Hong Kong at 10.30 am (approximately a 3 1/2 hour flight, costing SGD 550, including taxes, etc).
I was a tad disappointed with the long queue at the immigration going into Hong Kong. Waited in queue for about 1/2 hour before I finally got out. Headed to get a Krispy Kreme Donut (Terminal 1 Arrival Hall) for a snack, while I waited for Ms Lee to arrive. I did not wait too long as her flight was only 1/2 hour apart from mine.
How to get to Hong Kong City from the airport? It was so easy. You buy those train tickets (about HKD 90 per pax) from the airport and then you sit a very nice comfy train to go to Kowloon Station (Airport to Tsung Yi to Kwoloon). From Kowloon station, you then can take a free shuttle bus to go to the hotel we were staying at – Empire Hotel, Kowloon.
The hotel is situated in Tsim Tsa Tsui, and was very near the train station. Very centrally located and near a lot of places – Mongkok, You Mei Tai, etc … (Hotel was booked together with a flight from Shanghai to Hong Kong, on dragon air, from cTrip for about RMB 5000+).
Met up with KC for lunch that day for nice dim sum.
After that we went to walk walk around near the river … on the Kowloon side … had a drink at Starbucks by the river.
After long, long, walk, we went in search of food for dinner … We followed instructions in a book and found this very interesting store along the Temple Street Market that serves very delicious Claypot rice and loads of other things …
Above are pictures of the Oyster Omelete (Yummy!), and Lai Liu Ha … and I realized that we were too eager to eat the food that we had not taken pictures of the claypot rice (the most impt one) and the vege we had. The entire meal cost about HKD 100 only … =)
After dinner, we went to walk around a little and ended up making wrong turns a couple of time and ended up walking a lot of “yuan wang” road … oops!!!
It was a tiring day … =)