Travel & Food Hunt: Luxurious for the Commoners: July 2008

It's our last day in Hong Kong. I started to miss it already... I guess it goes the same for Ms A as well. Est? Hmmmm... She's floating on love clouds so... *cough cough* =D

We decided to stop over a normal coffee shop around the corner of our hotel for breakfast. Ms A went for her usual favourite noodles with luncheon meat set, while Est and I ordered macaroni with egg sandwich set. It's set only cost HKD20+.

Tea with milk

Ms A's noodles with luncheon meat and chicken wings.

They've ran out of macaroni, so I got beehoon soup and topped with ham slices.

Egg sandwich

It's really time to move off after the breakfast.

The hotel's bell boy was helpful with our luggages.

Taking the HK Express train back to the airport.

See the exhilaration in Est? If you're travelling by Jetstar, remember that you'll arrive at Terminal 1 of HK airport and departure at Terminal 2 instead.

I think HK's airport is really cool and artistic... Oh nooo... I miss HK!!

Remember Saint Honors?? The famous HK bakery name that got Andy Lau to attend it's opening of their 1st shop at Marina Square. I love their strawberry cakes/ tarts best, and it's also the time I got myself hooked with strawberry cakes. Also, my life decision to make strawberry cake my signature birthday cake for the rest of my life! kakaka... sounds too serious?

But They really have the best cakes that I've tasted. The famous ones was the Swan cream puffs. Kinda sad they'd closed down then.

Why I am back at the Kowloon station? We had left our umbrellas on the trolley at the station before we board the express train. I offered to go back and look for it, while the gals continued shopping at City Harbour. I wasn't in luck; the umbrellas had most probably been picked up by others. I was really upset =(

Esprit factory outlet; I bought the most and the cheapest no. of pieces here.

Another hour or so before boarding the plane, we were (or only me?) frantically looking for Krispy Kreme. I actually led my nose to do the smell-search job.

A choc for Ms A, custard for Est and a pink strawberry for me! The latter's a new flavour.

The strawberry donut wasn't great, but nice enough to keep me thinking of it after I was back in Sin.

Waiting for the time to click away and my donuts from the kitchen.

Crazy I'm not, only regret I fear. 6X6 boxes of donuts are on the way back Singapore.

It's the 4th day of our HK trip. Time flew by pretty fast. We sorta gotten use to the weather and most stuff here.

Had my mushroom pie the morning. It's great! The pastry crust is sweet and soft. The combination of the pastry with sauteed mushroom and cheese is such a savory pie for an empty stomach! Everitin was gone pretty soon!

We were to visit Macau for the day. The ferry terminal is easily accessible via MTR train. In the MTR station, the info board was flashing advertisements... Colourful further more?

They have huge areas for stations but small housing...

The exit to the Macau Ferry Terminal.

There're also a better class of ferry offered. But helicopter too?!

Just as we were about to go through the custom for Macau, I realised I'd forgotten my passport. And Est thought she lost hers upon checking.

So we hurried back, not before returning the ferry tix to the counter. The service staff was v.v.v. kind enough to exchange the tix for cash in return.

We were so worried for Est as we travelled on the train back to hotel. We thought about going to S'pore Embassy, report loss of passport and all...

Well... all worries were in vain, as Est found hers in her luggage, tucked away under layers of her clothes.

Can you spot the Yaohan Departmental Store at the background?

We're heading to Venetian, one of the new casinos in Macau.

Oh... MotoGP is coming to Macau!

We've finally reached Venetian after about slightly more than 30mins.

It has very grand and classic interior, with European settings.

Hunger set in after much walking and photo-taking. We decided to settle for a nice meal, meaning more expensive and extravagrant.

Potato Leek Soup

Roasted Pigeon

Cappucino for me

I like the designs of the cutleries. Elegant and chic at the same time.

The roast pigeon was a let down. It was unlike the ones I tried at the Cha Chan Ting when I visited HK years ago. It wasn't crispy to start with.

Est had a beef hard roll sandwich. Indeed, the bread was VERY hard! The sandwich was pretty simple.

I ordered a club sandwich. Better than Est's I muz say!

Tomato sauce in a different style. The waiter served these jars and opened one-by-one for us.

It was pretty late by the time our food arrived and when we're done with it.

The casino (was fully packed by majority PRC)

The foodcourt

S'pore chefs bring glory to the nation, even in Macau.

The gals at home muz be 'salivating' if they were to see such a huge Fancyl shop there.

We only realised we had 1 hr to visit the rest of Macau before our ferry leaves for HK. The staff advised us to stay on since travelling to and maybe fro will take more than 1 hr especially during the peak hours. I was very disappointed but couldn't blame anyone.

So we missed the Ruins of St Paul and other great sceneried and food! We vowed to go back Macau, soon I hope. And Ms A took a pic of this postcard for my remembrance.