December 30, 2009
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Christmas 2009 @ Hong Kong
Since I had a 7 days leave over the Christams I flew back to Hong Kong to get together with friends there, though I fly back to HKG a lot, it’s not that easy to catch up with them during public holidays and they are actually in town…and I also finally met up with a xangan…..
Luckily there was not snowstorm in Vancouver and my flight arrived HKG on 24DEC night quite on-time thought it took totally 14 hrs in the air…..and I managed to meet up with my friend Alwin for a Christmas Eve buffet dinner at the Jen Hotel around Sai Wan( Western Hong Kong Island) for the food…frnakly not much to talk about, but the Christmas Mood which made up everything…..
On the Christams day met up with friends for Tea. at the Azure of the Lan Kwai Fong Hotel…a new hotel open recently, and the bar Azure is located on the 29th floor which over looking the busy Central to bad it’s also a very foggy day in HKG been told that the airport was a mess……thank god I arrived a night ahead…
after the tea some of us still felt hungry, cos it was the first meal for them as they were partying till the Sun came out…! Therefore we went to the most famous Tsui Wah for a Late Afternoon HK style Tea….
Boxing day Yum Chai lunch with old schoolmates, and turned out to be a ‘camera gathering’ since we all had our plan afterwards, either going for hiking, BBQ or just like me going to the Malls…. and Lumix GF1 seems to be a hot pick this winter….
Then walked around at the Elements Mall, hahah one of my friend said I’m a ‘Elementholic’ and yes Ido like that Mall very much..
And they had this promotional performance of the Musical Chicago as the Australian cast will perfrom the show this May in Hong Kong….
Performing ‘All That Jazz’ and ‘All I Care About’
the 3rd day of Christmas went to have the Cantonese Vegetarian Dim Sum lunch at this 心齋(Pure Veggie House) which was really tasty, at first I thought it might be the MSG effect, but to be frank, I was not that thirsty after the meal…..
I like the Steam rye-rice roll and the house special Hot-Pot rice most…..
On the 4th day of Christmas first hang aorund at TST
taking the Star ferry from Central to TST, by-pass the entrance of the Ocean Terminal/Harbout City, then
to the new Heritage 1881
Then went back to Central to have tea with CurryPuffy at the cafe/tea house of Joel Robuchon, though the choices of tea leaves was not as distinctive as other 5 stars hotels, their dessert was eventually nice
Le Chocolat Noisettes – chocolate Hazelnut cake
L’exotique – White chocolate and passion fruit cake
La charlotte aux framboise – Raspberry Charlotte Cake
and I forgot this one….will update on the comment once I could find the answer it’s a savoury dish
and the price was not that expensive, we spent less than HKD200 …and of course CurryPuffy and I had a long long chat…….
Before I went for a Movie(Sherlock Holmes) at Time Square , they were busy setiing up stuff for the countdown on 31DEC
Comments (3)
I’d love to visit The Veggie House next time. The pastries at JR are quite good and not too overly sweet, glad that we finally met up. Lucky you got to “visit” HK almost every week!
Mmm… those miniature burgers look pretty good. I’m not sure I could handle so much desserts in one sitting. My pants will not fit!
It’s great that you met up with Gary as well.
@CurryPuffy - the veggie house is really worth a try….it’s nice meeting you as well….
@ElusiveWords - haha if I have told you that it’s for 3 persons, it’s not that much actually howeverI think Peninsula and Inter-Continental are more generous on the portions,