2011 Hong Kong Trip Part 1

Took a short and rather impromptu trip down to Hong Kong with Sean and Jonny last week. Stayed at Tung Chung since Sean's mom has a condo there. The air in Hong Kong is much better than back here in Singapore and also the weather was a lot less humid.

Sean's mom's apartment. Very cosy place.

That bottle of Martell costs us only about SGD 60.

Ferried down to the central area on our second day for some shopping. Almost everything was a lot cheaper than the stores in Singapore, and they have a gigantic Apple store. All we have here are Apple re-sellers.

Big Apple store where people go and play games on the iPad2s but never buy anything.

We were on a Vans ferry. Coolest ferry ever.

The tall building's got its head in the clouds.

So we made it to the central area after a relatively short ferry ride and was pleasantly greeted by the low prices of fashion apparel.

H&M

Gucci

The Devil's brand of choice, Prada.

Oh and did I mention Jonny bought his first pack of cigarettes in Hong Kong?

Sometime around 5 in the afternoon, it started raining so we decided to seek refuge somewhere before heading down to the night market in Mongkok. And where else is a better place to do so than at a hotel lounge during Happy Hour? Drinks were going at two-for-one prices, so we went nuts with that. Pretty good deal, I must say.

High

Slightly tipsy.

Sober.

Very friendly Filipino lady with an amazing voice and Jonny was totally smitten by her. Why am I not surprised?

The rain finally stopped and we headed down to Mongkok in search for quirky stuff at the night market. Did not manage to get weird sex toys, but we did see animal-shaped thongs for men. The place wasn't too crowded since we went on a weeknight, so there wasn't much squeezing to do.

I think everyone knows that these are all fake goods, yet vendors still try to pass them off as  genuine.

Jonny fell in love with a timepiece.

Lots of iPhone covers and pouches on sale. It's almost as if no one in Hong Kong owns a Blackberry.

Massage plus happy ending anyone? HKD58 only, from the old lady holding the signboard.

That's all I have for now. Coming up next, our arduous journey to the Peak and Madame Tussauds. The semi-adventurous trio (that's us) meets fake celebrities and slowly but steadily make our way up to the top of the highest mountain on Hong Kong Island.

Watch this space.