Happy New Year~~

We all wish you have a Happy New year. Have more fun in 2008! Wish you all have good time in this year. :) Hope to see you in Hong Kong. :)

Local Style Restaurant inside Municipal Services Building

This is the "in-house" version of Da Pai Dang.
They are inside the Cooked Food Markets of each Municipal Services Building, which is a public multifuncational area organized by the government. You can almost find more than one of such markets in each district. Normally, they are sharing with the wet market.





Here is a list of Cooked Food Markets:
http://www.fehd.gov.hk/pleasant_environment/tidy_market/Markets_CFC_list.html

Shopping @ APM Millennium City

Another shopping mall in Hong Kong. Some of the shops in the mall operate till 2am, or even dawn.

You can enjoy shopping here, also you can have entertainment like cinema, karaoke and dining here.





http://www.apm-millenniumcity.com/

The mall is located in Kwun Tong, which is a old district, however, you can walk across the MTR station to feel the typical Hong Kong old district at Yue Man Square. There are some stalls there selling street snacks like fish-ball, tou-fu-fa. Therefore, you can see the difference of modern and old Hong Kong in Kwun Tong.

Transportation: Exit A2, MTR Kwun Tong Station

Merry Christmas

We wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. :)

Here is a church band singing and playing with the public at Wan Chai. They are sharing the peaceful and glory message of Christmas to everyone there.

Cable Car [Latest news]

It was reported via media recently, the Ngong Ping 360 Cable Car is supposed to have trial run during these couple of weeks. If the trial run is smooth, the cable car will reopen at 31st December. Stay tuned.



Updated: In this afternoon (18th December). MTR announced that Ngong Ping 360 will be start to operate at 10am, 31st December, 2007.

Bird's Nest / Dried Seafood

Famous dried seafood and bird's nest can be found in Hong Kong.

Dried abalone 鮑片
Dried mushroom 冬菇
Dried scallop 元貝
Dried whelk 螺片
Fish maws 花膠
Nostoc 髮菜
Sea cucumber 海參

The above are famous Dried Seafood can be purchased in Hong Kong. Together with Bird's Nest.
The following link introduce some basic knowledge of Chinese Dried Seafood.

http://www.consumer.org.hk/website/ws_en/news/press_releases/p33902.txt

You can find some of the shops selling such products at Wing Lok Street, near Western Market. More of the shops can be found further at Des Voeus Road West, west to Wing Lok Steet. You can find road sign at Western Market.

Sport shoes street (Fa Yuen Street) Hong Kong

Sport shoes street (Fa Yuen Street, Mong Kok) is well known to Hong Kong citizens that there are quite a lot of shops selling sport shoes, sport fashions, hiking and camping equipments. Nearby is Ladies Street(Tung Choi Street) and the multi-storeys computer shopping centre.

Just a few minutes walk is Sai Yeung Choi Street where you can find a lot of electric shops selling lastest models of cell phones, digital cameras and other home appliances.

So, a whole day should be reserved for shopping, dining and walking around in Mong Kok.

Transportation: MTR Mong Kok Station, Exit E2.

Have a nice trip in Hong Kong!