Playing hostess with the mostess

We had visitors this month!
Aunty Alison was in HK for a training course, so she came early to spend the weekend with us!
(Well, not just with us, think she also wanted to see HK properly)

First up, we took her to City Hall Maxim Palace for some dim sum, then walk walk walk around Central the whole day!!! Started at IFC, headed to Landmark, walked along Queens Road and ended up having early dinner at Yung Kee.

Mmm.. famous roast goose!!! :P
Walked up D'Aguilar street to check out the night scene at Lan Kwai Fong, which was quite happening on that Saturday night. Think there was some kinda beer festival.A must to take photo with the famous signboard :)

Then, whilst I was sleeping, mummy and daddy took her to the Peak for some night views!

Luckily, it was a clear day so the view was good.

Unluckily, mummy's camera was acting up so photos are not that clear!

The next day, aunty Alison checked into her hotel, which was at Mongkok!

So, we went to the nearby Langham Mall for some lunch!

Had noodles and dumplings.. my favourite :)

Since we were already on Kowloon side, we headed to Tsim Tsa Tsui for some shopping.

Followed by sightseeing at Arena of Stars.

I was fast asleep in my stroller, so no pics of me!

Aunty Alison's favourite star - Leon Lai Ming!

After that, aunty Alison was busy with her training, so I went back to my usual routine of doing nothing much.

Here's a random photo of me with my hair tied up, and wearing a necklace hehe. So pretty?

The following weekend, aunty Alison came over to stay with us for one night before leaving for Sydney... Unfortunately, the weather wasn't as good, and it was raining.

But, the good news is that I get to wear my raincoat!!!

We headed to Causeway bay for another round of dim sum in the World Trade Centre.

Nice views of Victoria Harbour :)
Me and mummy wore matching Mickey t-shirts hehe.

Then, we walked to nearby Times Square for one final round of SHOPPING!

Coincidentaly there was a Harry Potter display outside the mall, so we posed for a few pictures with the Hogwarts Express... daddy also tried to be matching with me by wearing a yellow raincoat too!

Kinda looks like London weather, all wet and gloomy!
Ooh... platform 9 and 3/4.Found out there were more HP displays inside the mall!!!

As you can see, daddy and aunty Alison are big HP fans!!!

Pretending to ride the broomstick!

Wand duel!

Pet owl?Wanted! Undesirable no. 1.

Me in a rented stroller, not sure what the fuss is all about!

The mall even had some costumes for people to pose in!!! Think aunty Alison looked more like an elf than a wizard hah.
Did you notice daddy came prepared wearing a Harry Potter T-shirt!!!

Aerial view of Diagon alley :)

All in all, a busy but fun weekend!

On a separate note, have started attending summer camp at PIPS this week, so am less bored at home...

Mummy's also enrolled me for some Kung Fu lessons hehee.. no pics but have learnt to block, punch, walk like a table and crawl like an ant. Hmm.. will leave it to your imagination hee.

Adios~

4D3N in Taipei - Warning: Long post ahead!!!

So, as you know from the last post, daddy was on leave last week.

As there was a long weekend coming up (HK handover to China day) , we did a spur of the moment thing and booked a holiday to Taipei!!!

Daddy bought me a Trunki suitcase! Here we are, at HK International Airport :)



Love my Trunki! (but refuse to say Thank you to daddy still!)

We have arrived in Taipei!!! Waiting for our car pick up... Turned out to be a Merc! What a great start to the holiday!Since we arrived bright and early, we checked in to the hotel and decided to go sightseeing :)

First stop, Hello Kitty Sweets at ZhongXiao FuXing.
There's a nice couch right in front!

The shop was Hello Kitty from top to bottom!

Mummy bought me this chocolate tart! It looks a lot nicer in real life!

Couldn't get a seat in the Hello Kitty cafe. We were there at 12pm and were told to come back at 4.30pm!!! Couldn't be bothered so went searching for the famous mee suah place! Ah Zhong Mee Suah!

Out of curiousity.. I decided to try it and wow, it's so yummy!

I helped mummy finish the whole bowl!!! Greedy me.

Daddy also ordered some Or Chien!

Seems like most people speak either Hokkien or Hakka in Taiwan!

After that, since the weather was nice, hot and clear day, we decided to go to Taipei 101.

Took some night view shots hehe.

Day view shot.. ok ok I'm sure you know it's not the real thing, just a poster!

I get to enter for free! Woo hoo! The perks of being a shorty!

Pretended to ride a bus :P

Actually the whole time we were there, I just wanted to sit on the bus...

Anyway... here's the view of Taipei and beyond!

Did you know, Taipei is shaped like a sweet potato?

Picture perfect!

Then, we went to see the Damper... some gigantic ball that keeps the tower from swaying I think!

At night, we decided to be adventurous and check out the Shilin night market (in between Taipei 101 and Shihlin we also visited the Wu Feng Pu shopping district... !!! so Kiasu, was worried it would rain the next few days (per the weather forecast) so we tried to SQUEEEZE as much into the first day as possible)

Queuing up for the famous XXL fried chicken.. hmm.. OK OK only lah.

Check out the long line...!!!Bought a drink while waiting coz the weather was very hot. This drink was pretty good, some Ai Yu Lemon Jelly thing

As you can see, there's not many English signs and people only speak Mandarin, so we had quite a bit of language barrier. Mostly pointing and grunting haha.

Here's the chicken.. finally reached the end of the queue.

Actually, tastes just like Uncle Bob lor!

Walked around the night market and bought these cute Egg cakes... animal shaped! This was my dinner coz there was nothing else I could eat.

SAusages! POrk King!

The next day we were lucky to still have good weather, so we headed to the Sun Yat Sen memorial in the morning.

All pictures with both mummy and daddy are taken by ME! So, they look fat since I'm short and the camera is angled upwards haha. Too bad.

Me, with cap, sunblock, electric fan and mozzy repellent. Got bitten on day 1, so mummy got paranoid. Managed to catch the changing of the guards and the Salute.

They have a change every hour. Quite serious and solemn affair.

View of the fountain outside the memorial.

Can see Taipei 101. Stopped by a nice bakery round the corner, called Bread Societe. But wasn't hungry so didn't eat anything. Just enjoyed some free air con haha.

DAddy trying to steal the buns!

When in Taipei, think it's quite a must to visit Din Tai Fung, so we walked to the nearby branch on ZhongXiao E road. Reached at 11.30am and no queue. Left at 12.30pm , the queue was stretching to the road!!!

Mmmm... yummmieee! MY favourite!

After that, we went back to the hotel, as we had booked a tour to the North East Coast + Chiufen (an old gold mining village turned tourist attraction).

First stop, Bitou cape trail. The northeastern-most point of Taiwan... I think.I fell asleep on the way there, was a bit grumpy to be woken up.

After that, we stopped by the coast to look at some famous rock formation that supposedly looks like a bamboo shoot? Honestly, I can't really see the resemblance lor!

Then, last stop... Chiufen! Ahhh FOOD! NOW we're talking!!!

Had the famous taro ball dessert... yumyumyum! Followed by some beef noodle soup!

There were SO MANY stall selling all kinds of FOOD!

View from the top... every house in Chiufen has ocean views!

Nice!

Houses by the cliffside...At night we went to a night market near the hotel, called Tong Hua Lin Jiang night market. But no picS!

Day 3, we went to Ximending.. another shopping district. On hindsight, should have gone at night. Oh well.
Saw some action... lots of reporters... and fire engines...

Turns out, the cinema burned down!

Shattered glass panes.

Nothing much to do, so we went to check out the National Palace Museum.

All the people we spoke to in Taipei told us NOT to take taxi, as it was quite far away and better to take a MRT to Shihlin then take taxi to the museum from there.

Argh... what a bad idea that was! From Shihlin we paid NT180 to get to the museum. We caught a taxi from the museum back to the hotel and it was NT250! Not a huge difference actually!

Motto : Just taxi everywhere in Taipei! Especially if you have a young one + stroller!!!

Anyway, not allowed to take photos in the museum, but the main attractions was a jadeite shaped like a cabbage (bak choy) and a jadeite that looks like a piece of meat and some famous paintings of landscapes lah.

All the exhibits were things belonging to the royal families.

The only part we could take photos were in the courtyard, so this is what the museum looks like from the outside. Quite grand, mountain views.

Again , taken by me, so they look fat.

In the evening, we went in search of "yu tiau" and soya bean.

I google translated the soybean.com.tw website and found a branch on FuXing South road. No. 102 I think. Very very nice!!! The dough was SO fluffy!!!!

Check it out, made fresh on the premises!

I get to ride the MRT for free haha.

On our last day, we only had the morning, so we walked around the Taipei 101 mall.

Then off we went to the Airport.

Didn't realise the Taipei Taoyuan airport was full of Hello Kitty things!

Here's the Hello Kitty nursing room...
Hello Kitty telephone booth!

Hello Kitty shop

Hello Kitty PLAYGROUND!

And Playroom! Spent like a good 20 mins here!

Sadly, it was time to go back to HK. But all in all, good trip. Managed to do lots as the weather was good the whole time.

Flew EVA AIR, which was quite pleasant. There were cartoons to keep me entertained :)

Hope you all liked the post.