Day 4 (ish)

HELLO!

Don't know when I'm going to update my blog when I go on my trip, but until then... 

I am at Hong Kong Airport right now :) Flight leaves around 1:30pm and am I excited! Pro's of this trip (and hints of where I'm going) is that the new destination will be hot, sunny, and it has lots of cheap buys and yummy food. The one and only stupid con for this trip is that I'm sick... again. I was sick the beginning of break, now I'm sick again... probably from the sudden change of temperature in Hong Kong from t-shirt wearable outdoor weather to 2-3 layers needed for outdoor weather... 

All I can say is... 

*sigh*... No. Me. Gusta. 

Anyways, here's a picture of me at the airport, I is not a happy child when sick. 

Wish me a safe trip and fast recovery!

Bye for now! :)

Day 3

Hai :)

Lazy day today, got breakfast with the family and headed to Sunday mass with my sister and mom at St. Andrew's Parish. We met up with my grandma and aunts and uncles there as well, and went to (yet another) breakfast at Cafe de Coral. Didn't take pictures of the noms, sorry :(

Today's temperature was pretty close to Vancouver's fall weather, quite chilly and windy. Wearing a hoodie and a thin jacket was just (almost barely) enough (I'M SO WEAK). Anyways, shopped for a bit with the family for my trip tomorrow :D, checked out of the hotel and brought our luggage to my grandma's house. Went for more shopping (but didn't get anything) in Mong Kok with my sister for a bit before dinner at her boyfriend's grandma's place (she is the cutest thing ever, no joke). And then went back to my grandma's, waiting for the mini van was brutal because I was actually pretty cold and the mini van took FOREVER (almost 20 minute) to come. When we got to my g-ma's house, (you probably guessed right) we nommed again. They already finished dinner by then but they saved us food because we said we'd still eat when we come back (...of course we would). Menu for the second dinner: smoked salmon, pizza, spaghetti, chicken wings and prosciutto ham, usually it'd be the typical Chinese food, but it was my uncle's birthday today soooooo... NOMNOMNOM. I was a bit disappointed because I wanted the lasagna and Pizza Hut got the orders wrong :(

Birthday cake for dessert and now I'm packing for my trip tomorrow *excited*

Not sure if I'm going to be able to get wifi there, or if I'm even going to bring my laptop... but I'll find my way to update you guys as soon as I can :)

Day 2

Day full of noms, and nothing productive at all...
Grabbed breakfast with my family and headed to dim sum with my sister, her boyfriend and two of her boyfriend's friends. (Like I said, day full of non-stop noms)

 The dim sum place we went to is over 30 years old, an old style dim sum restaurant where you have to find your own seats and take your own dim sum from the food carts (aka the Hunger Games, if you don't fight for your seat or your food you're done.) How it works is simple, the food cart ladies will load the trolleys with dim sum, and they "park" in a certain place in the restaurant, literally once they leave the kitchen a mob of hungry people follow them. The dim sum ladies have a lot of attitude, they won't serve you unless they're "parked" and if you mess up the 'system' they'll give you an earful (NOT FROM PERSONAL EXPERIENCE). The only thing you're really given service for is the tea - they're famous for Pu'er (my favorite), and guess what else they're famous for? ...Lotus paste buns :3 :3 :3 :3 <3

Went to the IFC mall to look at a new wallet :), though I didn't get one (I couldn't decide, typical.) I saw some pretty nice ones at Kate Spade. Took a ferry across some inlet and casually got lost in one of the biggest malls I've been to yet. Harbour City Center, 3 connecting malls. My sister and her boyfriend  and I went our separate ways in the mall, I thought I could find them easily but.. nope.. got lost for probably half an hour or something. I do not like that mall.

Noms for dinner was a feast of seafood, considering that Hong Kong is pretty well known for it's seafood. We met up with my parents and my uncle at the market to buy seafood to be brought to a restaurant to be prepared for dinner. I almost knocked some lady over in the market place because it was so damn crowded (sorrynotsorry). Later on we met up with my grandpa (YehYeh) and my aunt and the feast began at a restaurant called Gum Bo.

Menu for tonight's dinner was:

Cheesy lobster
2 green onion/ginger steamed fishes
Steamed conch 
Garlic steamed scallops (the size of my bowl!)
Steamed whole chicken
Gai lan stir fry with ginger
Pea tips stir fry with garlic
Black bean sauce with some kind of seashell
Chili pepper and salted with some kind of prawns
Mango pudding
Green bean soup
Coconut pudding

Went to Forever21 after dinner to look for clothes for a short family trip I'll be going for a few days for New Years :) Location will be revealed soon! Gotta keep you guys hooked to this blog (loljk).

















Top left: Me, my sister, her boyfriend Joey and Cindy - the friend who brought us to the dim sum :)
Bottom Left: a sign in the dim sum place saying they don't take tips (aka you can't bribe them to give you food first LOL)
Middle: art display in the IFC mall 
Top right: view from the ferry harbour (it was foggy)
Bottom right: seafood market :)

GUESS WHO'S BACK, BACK AGAIN (day 1)

HELLO :)

Arrived in Hong Kong in Hong Kong date and time: December 27th 11-ish pm, after a gruesome 22 hour travel time. We were on Eastern China Airlines (reason being, because plane tickets are the cheapest in the amount of time we're given..) After probably 13 hours on the plane, there was a stop over for 6.5 hours in Shanghai and then another 2.5 hours on the plane to Hong Kong. Met up with my dad who was waiting for us at our hotel: Holiday Inn Express.
I'm just sayin... I could probably be the flight attendant of the company if I were to be one, and to work for this airline... I'm just saying that their service sucks.  Manners/politeness maybe a 2/10, and they only spoke Mandarin, nothing wrong with it... but if you're working for an airline that travels internationally; you should know at least some of the basics of English. I'm just saying. But the food was good :3

DAY 1:
Started off the day with complimentary breakfast from the hotel, pretty yummy I gotta say :) They give you a 4 sets of breakfasts to choose from (nomnomnomnom) got 3/4 because I went with my sister and my mom (my dad went out early). Went to the bank to finish off some paper work to claim my $6000 HKD, and went to see my grandma (PorPor) and relatives at dim sum. Non-stop eating since we went to Cafe De Coral, shopped a bit and went to my grandma's in Tai Po Tsai to eat birthday cake.

Got to my PorPor's 80th Birthday Banquet/dinner at 7 (we were supposed to be there by 6, and some of my relatives were already there since 4....oops.) at this Chinese restaurant. There were... a lot of people. Most of them are my relatives (distant/close), the distant ones only remembers me as a baby since I left ... when I was a baby. A lot of greetings, introductions and "Yes, I'm Kei Kei"'s.

Food didn't get served until 8ish, kind of late but it was pretty good. The typical Chinese banquet foods: roasted pig, steamed fish, shark fin soup, abalone, noodles, fried rice, veggies etc... The best part was probably the 'sao bao' (steamed bun with lotus paste inside, traditional Chinese birthday food)... you have no idea how happy I get when there are steamed lotus buns. I could eat them all day, every day and not get sick of them LOL <3

The next best part of the night was the end of the dinner. Not that I didn't enjoy it, it's not that. But it was when we (the family) were saying our 'Byes' to our guests, we took a lot of pictures. Not really normal pictures either, just casual photo bombing... and us just being..ourselves. LOL I'll post some pictures up, so you know what I mean.

It is 3:51 am HK time, 11:51 am Vancouver time. I think it's time for me to sleep, going to dimsum tomorrow morning (apparently they got them lotus buns there *excited*) and having dinner at my Grandpa's (YehYeh).

Good night and good afternoon :)