Hong Kong, Macau

In short, my time in HK and Macao can be summerised as SHOPPING (again?! :$) and EATING! Thanks to all my lovely hosts. She was more happy than I was when I bought anything. Now my HK experience has leveled up to 201 - SHOPPING (Shopping 101 consists of tourist attraction, while 201 is focus on shopping). I passed this 201 paper in 東涌 as I managed to buy a sport cloth while I was carrying my backpackers on the way to airport :o My luggages has on my back, which has doubled since I left NZ (from 8 kg to 16 kg) :o

Life is too short to live in the past and my busy shopping has made me put my sorrow behind me and moved on. Talking about shopping, I am really uneasy when I am in the shops in HK. Shop assistances were too "friendly"and "helpful". They are constantly sitting on my tail and trying to "help". :x

Hong Kong

• Breakfast: 茶餐廳- 港式奶茶、雞肉湯米粉、火腿奄列 (ham Omelette)
• Birthday gift exchange
  
• 尖沙咀、旺角 Shopping, eating (pork neck noodle, pork soft bone noodle, pork feet noodle, 炸魚皮、檸賓 (lemon Ribena)、楊枝甘露)
  
• WHAT? The tea I was drinking was used to clean my utensils by them ?! :#
  
• Dinner: 木瓜焗飯、芥蘭冰鎮、Fried Chicken wrapped with beacon and vege, duck tongue and jelly fish, Fried rice)
  

Macao

• "Wow! Look at the bridges! How impressive!" "Doh! I'm so corrupted by those transportation engineers!" :x
  
• 威尼斯人酒店 (Vantiant Hotel): It's very extravagant, but it completely misses the essential of being Venice.
  
• 氹仔: What is "士多啤梨"?? "Strawberry!" :x
  
• 大三巴
• It was so cold that I ended up shopping even in Macao :x
  
• 媽祖閣
  
• Food: 焗葡國雞、葡式炒蜆、焗馬介休、薑糖、木糠布甸、榴槤雪糕、肉乾、杏仁餅、鳳凰卷、豆花、葡式蛋撻、咖哩蟹、非洲烤雞、葡式章魚燴飯、Tio Pepe

My lovely host told me that she spent HK$800 on average each day when she went on shopping in Hong Kong. Under her intensive supervision, I only spend HK$878 during my two and a half days visit. I guess my shopping skill could still be improved. In order to pass the next level of HK 301, one of the requirement is using 紅白藍 (a bag that ppl used after extensively shopping)

Hong Kong

• Breakfast: 艇仔粥、鹹肉粽、叉燒腸粉、奶茶
  
• We were hoping to check in my lugguge at Kowloon Station so we can go shopping freely. However, I would have to not only take the expansive airport express (3 times more), but also I needed to come back to Kowloon to take the express train. So I decided to carry all my luggage and went to this outlet shopping mall as we planned. Yes, I managed to buy more, even with my 11kg backpack on my back. I think my shopping training has been a good success!
  
• Lunch: 豬扒包、蜜汁雞翅、lemon tea