Hong Kong - 2nd Day

We decided to go to Disneyland on a weekday, so we spent the whole of our 2nd day in Hong Kong there. We decided to go for breakfast at one of the local shops nearby our hotel before beginning our journey to Disneyland.


We ordered chee cheong fun, porridge, wantan mee and beef ball noodles. The food was quite good, and the coffee was nice.




After breakfast, we took the MTR towards Sunny Bay. Once there, we boarded the MTR that will take us to Disneyland. Even the trains' windows had the famous Mickey Mouse symbol and the train's interior was very different from the normal MTR trains.
We reach Disneyland around 9am. Seen here is the entrance to the Hong Kong Disneyland.

On the way in, there was a very nice fountain with the many figurines of Disney characters around it.
Even the tickets are so nice. Each one had a different Disney character on it. However, Disneyland only opens at 10am, so we sat around on the benches outside to wait for the doors to open.
Around 9:50am, we started to queue at the entrance. When the doors opened, the workers checked everyone's bags. Initially we thought they wanted to consfiscate all the drinks and food that people bring in. But it wasn't that because they allowed those who brought food and drinks to pass through. Hmmmm, wondered what they were looking for ? Weapons Of Mass Destruction ? Or are they planning to consfiscate all the Bugs Bunny, Tweety or Snoopy that people bring in ?

After we passed through the gates, we took a photo of the big Mickey with the Disney train station in the background.
On our way inside, we saw a Pluto character and went to take a picture with it.

At the Town Centre, we quickly went to queue for a photo with the stars of Disneyland, Mickey and Minnie. Nice leh....
Altogether in Hong Kong Disneyland, there are 3 "lands". There's Tomorrowland, Fantasyland and Adventureland. We went to Tomorrowland first, and went queuing for Space Mountain. It was a very exciting roller coaster ride in the dark. You feel as if you're really in space, with all the stars zooming past you. We went on the ride TWICE but sis decided not to go again. In fact if I had the time, I would have gone on it a few more times !!! Sis waited for us at the Comet Cafe nearby.

After that, Ade, Evelyn and I tried the Buzz Lightyear Astro Blasters. It's a very kiddy ride, where you sit in a "car" and you can use the "gun" in front to point at shoot at the bad guys to get score points. Ade scored the highest followed by me.

Then we collected sis from the cafe and went to see Stitch Encounter. There are sessions in Cantonese, Mandarin and English. We decided not to wait for an English session, so we just joined the Mandarin one. It was a very very funny show, with the cartoon Stitch interacting with the audiences. Very enjoyable indeed.

By the time we came out from the show, it was close to 11:30am, and the Golden Mickeys show begins at 12pm, so we went queuing for it. The thing about all these resorts, you have to queue for everything, and they don't provide benches for you to sit while waiting. Sigh.......

The Golden Mickeys is an "award show" for the Disney characters. Quite entertaining.

After the show, we decided to have our lunch as our stomachs were beginning to growl. Although the food was not that great and quite pricey, we really liked the utensils. Just look at the bowl. It's side handles had Mickey's symbol on it. Nice hoh ?

After lunch, we then went to watch the 3D Mickey's PhilharMagic show. Again, a very enjoyable show with the storyline about Donald chasing after a magic hat and getting into all sorts of trouble.
In the theater, as we waited for it to begin, I suddenly had a whiff of eggs and when I looked around, I saw an old aunty peeling an egg for her lunch. Hehehe...
Ade and Evelyn went on the carousel after the show, then it was time to get back to the Main Street for the 3pm Disney Parade. Instead of walking, we decided to take the train from Fantasyland back to the Main Street.

In the train, we had a glimpse of the whole of Tomorrowland.
We managed to get some seats for the Disney Parade, but I sat with Evelyn while sis sat with Ade right across the street. While waiting for the Parade to start, I dashed into Mickey's House and took some photos.

There was this couple sitting next to us from UK, and they had adopted a very cute African kid. He kept pestering his dad for popcorns, then he also played with Evelyn and myself. Very nice and friendly kid, not the least bit afraid of us at all.

Just before the parade started, some very stubborn woman and her daughter decided to stand right in front of our seats to watch the parade ! Even though many berated them, they refuse to move ! Talk about rude people ! So in the end, Evelyn and myself had to resort to standing on our benches in order to be able to take some decent photos.

After the parade, we went back to Fantasyland and saw "Merlin" near the carousel trying to find a "king" to pull the sword out from the stone.
From Fantasyland, we went to Adventureland. We went on the Jungle River Cruise, which had queues for English, Cantonese and Mandarin. We chose English of course, and it was the shortest queue ! Hehehehe.....

Quite an interesting ride, and our boatman kept saying "Say goodbye to those on land, it may be the last time you see them !". We passed by "elephants", "crocodiles", "hippos", and even a "danger zone" where there were geysers made by an angry "God".

Then Ade and Evelyn decided to take the river cruise to Tarzan Island. Sis and myself opted out as we didn't want to climb up the Tarzan tree ! My legs just couldn't take so much walking and queuing. Instead, I went in search of the Jumbo sausage. It was quite delicious.
At 5pm, we all began queuing for the Festival Of The Lion King show. We had to wait for 1 whole hour, and I can tell you, my legs were so tired. Made me wish I had brought along Yoko-Yoko to apply !

Finally at 6pm, we were allowed to enter the hall. Finally, we have places to sit ! The show was quite grand and elaborate. It was about Simba reminiscing how he became the King of all Beasts.
By the time the show finished, it was already closed to 7pm. Since the fireworks starts at 8pm, we decided to go back to the Main Street. We saw the Disney workers pulling the line to demarcate the border, and we managed to get a place just behind the line. Finally, there's no way anyone will be standing in front of me and blocking my view !

Sis, Ade and Evelyn decided to go collect the photos taken with Mickey & Minnie in the morning, and to pay a visit to Mickey's House. Since I had already been there, I became the designated seat reserver and bag watcher. It was really boring sitting there. Luckily I had my iPod with me. The square began to quickly filled up with people who wanted to watch the fireworks.
Finally at 8pm sharp, Ade and Evelyn managed to come back just in time for the fireworks to begin. It was really wonderful and spectacular, unlike the lousy one we saw in Putrajaya last year. Really worth the wait.


After the fireworks, we went shopping for souvenirs as a remembrance for our visit to Hong Kong Disneyland. I wanted to buy a very nice Mickey lanyard, but unfortunately, they were all sold out.

For our dinner, we decided to go back to town for dinner. Unfortunately, the shop we chose wasn't that great. Food was ok, but the coffee was not nice at all. We saw quite a few tables ordering some crispy fish skins, so we also ordered them, but it was so-so only. The noodles, rice and porridge were quite okay though.

After dinner, we went to Sweet Dynasty again for desserts before heading back to the hotel and dropping off to sleep. I practically smoothered by legs with Tiger Balm after taking my bath to try and ease the pain. (No Yoko-Yoko ma, use Tiger Balm as replacement lor....). It helped a bit, but not much.

Hong Kong - 3rd Day

This morning we woke up and went to McDonalds for breakfast. We ordered the Ham n' Egg Twisty Pasta. It was really delicious. Don't understand why Malaysia McDonalds can't have this on their menu.

Evelyn ordered the Big Breakfast set. Almost similar to Malaysia.
Ade ordered the Sausage McMuffin, also something similar to Malaysia.
After breakfast, we took the MTR to Tung Chung as we wanted to take the Ngong Ping 360 Cable car ride to Lantau Island, where the Tian Tan Buddha Statue is. Tung Chung had a huge mall called Citygates that had a lot of outlets for brands like Nike, Adidas, Polo Ralph Lauren, Burberry, etc etc etc.


The whole cable car journey took about 25 minutes, and it had an "angle station" where the cars makes a turn of about 60 degrees before proceeding on it's journey. On arrival at Lantau, we have to pass through the Ngong Ping village where there are a lot of souvenir shops and restaurants.

Finally we reach the foot of the big Buddha statue. Sis and I decided to just take a picture at the foot of the long staircase, since we had already "made the journey up" many years ago ! Hehehe, we let the 2 youngsters climb up the stairs while we went in search of the "San Sui Tau Foo Fa" which was not only delicious but very smooth as well.
Meanwhile, Ade and Evelyn finally reach the top and took a photo with the Buddha.
This picture was taken during our journey back to Tung Chung. You can see how far and high up the cable cars go. Sis was actually afraid during the whole journey !
By the time we finished our window shopping in Tung Chung, it was already close to 4pm. From there we went to Times Square Hong Kong just to take a look at the Hong Kong landmark. Then we took the ferry from Wan Chai as we wanted to go to Temple Street for dinner.
Temple Street is famous for its claypot rice, and we ordered 2 pots. One is claypot pork ribs and another one is claypot waxed meat. When the rice arrives, there is this bottle of dark soy sauce for us to add into the rice, then to mixed it up before eating.

Although the claypot rice is quite nice, Temple Street was sooooo quiet ! There were only a few stalls around, unlike the last time sis and I were in Hong Kong. Now, it's even smaller than the pasar malam near my house !

From Temple Street, we decided to go to Ladies Street. Now that is a really happening place, with so many people milling around, and it's like Petaling Street x 2. There were also many shops around. I bought a "skin" for my iPod and Evelyn bought her football jersey. Can't remember it was Ronaldo or Ronaldinho. To me, all same same.
Our last stop of the day was back to Sweet Dynasty. This time round, aside from the Walnut soup, we ordered Birds' nest egg tarts. Very small but quite tasty.
We also ordered some "Har Gau" but it was so-so only.
Evelyn ordered the Ginger Soup Glutinous Ball which took such a long time to arrive, and it's not even as tasty as those in Malaysia. I think even the ones sold in our pasar malam taste better !