Day 2

On the second day we got up late and tried to go for some Dim Sum in a place recommended as the best Dim Sum place HK has to offer, Maxim’s Palace. We made our way to City Hall where the restaurant is, climbed the two flights of stairs and found it it was closed. Serves us right for not leaving this house till about 2pm. We did successfully have Corn flakes for breakfast and found out the HK milk actually taste ok, and not like cats milk as expected. But it costs about $20 per litre.

We used our Octopus cards for the first time and it made getting around easy and so cheap. A bus is around HKD5.7 (approx 50p), the tube is around the same and the trams are HKD2. We got back into Central and looked around the escalators again for somewhere to get lunch. We settled on a Sushi place with a conveyor belt of wonders. I ate Japanese Eel and some bluefin.
The OctopusCard kills the OysterCard, might’ve mentioned this but you can pay in most shops and places like Starbucks – even my works vending machine uses them.

We then got the tram up Victoria Peak which could still be paid for on Octopus card. It was HKD47 to get up and down. It's so steep






At the top was... more places to shop, A 3 story mall at the highest point of HK. Hong Kongers just love to shop, you can’t believe the scale of it – its one designer shop after another and when you move onto the next district its the same again. We must’ve seen more than 5 Louis Vutton shops without even trying. From the actually peak there were some spectacular views and really worth the trip up there.











We took a wander into Lan Kwai Fong which is the trendy super cool Bar area started in the 70s. We quickly stumbled across a Bar called Al’s Dinner that Katy’s boss used to work at and got some photos to document the discovery for her. Please note that this place serves a basket of crispy bacon for HKD48, I can’t believe I managed to not order but I don’t think long will pass before I do. (10th May and I’m still resisting)









Happy hour runs in Hong Kong from about 3-9 although we did spot one or two that ran from 12pm-10pm. As Happy hour at Al’s diner closed at 8 we moved onto some sort of Latin bar with a HH till 9pm and continued the cheaper drinking. HH makes the drinks roughly affordable coming in at around HKD38 so about £3.50. Not cheap but better than the full price.

Dinner was a late night affair which took us to a Chinese fast food place. It was a fairly earthy place and you weren’t quite sure what you were eating at any one point but it filled the hole. I’ll gloss over the slightly pink chicken.
We passed over Ebenezer Kebab which was a tough one







We then moved onto a bar and spent a good amount of time looking at a sign saying Tribal Car Pet Cave. We debated for ages what this place might be. Some sort of old fashioned Car that takes animals to a troglobitic venue. We then worked out it said Tribal Carpet Cave. And that it was simply a Carpet shop. Earlier on in the evening we’d had a conversation about how many members the Boy Band 5ive (4 apparently) had so I think the Happy Hour drinks were taking their toll.