Life Without Boundaries 逍遥自在: November 2014

Sunday, November 30, 2014

Hong Kong & Macau Trip - Day 5 - Hong Kong and home

After the breakfast, not much time left as I need to quickly rush to pier before I miss my ferry.

Arrive at pier with about 15 minutes before my ferry departure time.

There is news that some student is gathering and doing demonstration. So I hope I can get to Tung Chung safely. Far away from Central. The train proceed as usual, hardly feel any interruption to my plan. But I do wonder if I should pass by Central or not. Maybe if I am not carrying the heavy luggage, I will do it.

Tung Chung is the last place to shop for outlet in Hong Kong. It is so near the Hong Kong airport that almost 80% of tourist with time left will spend their Hong Kong dollar here before boarding their flight. The mall offer some storage locker for big luggage but I would suggest you not to care looking for it as there is hardly enough locker for all the visitor/tourist here. Plus none of the shop stop me from entering their shop with the luggage. Some even have a special area where you can temporary leave your luggage for a while. I did leave for a short period at one shop. Keeping my eyes on the luggage in case someone steal my things.

Hong Kong & Macau Trip - Day 4 - Macau

Pre Hong Kong & Macau trip | Hong Kong & Macau Trip - Day 1 - Comic Avenue | Hong Kong & Macau Trip - Day 1 - Victoria Harbour | Hong Kong & Macau Trip - Day 1 - Avenue of Star | Hong Kong & Macau Trip - Day 2 - Wong Tai Sin & Australia Dairy Co | Hong Kong & Macau Trip - Day 2 - Sheung Wan, Central, Wanchai, Clearwater Bay | Hong Kong & Macau Trip - Day 2 - The Peak | Hong Kong & Macau Trip - Day 3 - Tim Ho Wan | Hong Kong & Macau Trip - Day 3 - Ap Lei Chau Outlet | Hong Kong & Macau Trip - Day 4 - Macau | Hong Kong & Macau Trip - Day 5 - Hong Kong and home

Plan for the Day : Go to Macau and visit famous place in Macau such as Senato Square, Ruins of St Paul, etc
How to go Macau from HK : Pier at Sheung Wan and Tsim Sha Tsui sell the ferry ticket to Macau. Trip will take about 1 hour. Sheung Wan Pier is within walking distance from the MRT

The night before is more quiet. No gangster fighting. Anyway I pack the luggage and check out from the hotel early in the morning. Even though the hotel included breakfast but I never had one meal here.

The boat ride is quite stable. Don't feel the seasick. A surprise thing to see that the boat itself have free WIFI.

Outside of the pier, there is a list of free shuttle bus that you can take to more famous and large hotel, such as Venetian Casino, Starworld etc. The hotel I am staying is not in the list. But taxi is easily available here.

The hotel room is not ready when I check in the hotel. I leave my luggage with the concierge and go to nearby 官也街 Ruo do Cunha. This street is famous for good food and souvenir for tourist.
Yes, just reach Macau and I start to look for things to eat. XD

The day is still early, most shop just begin to operate.

First stop is a Macau cafe. Must try the Portuguese Egg Tart and Macau Pork Chop Burger.
The egg tart, sure taste better than the one I had in Hong Kong.

Next is Crab Porridge. This shop is quite famous and is recommended by many Hong Kong celebrity too.

After so much of good food, I decided to walk to nearby Starworld casino and Venetian. Both casino is very impressive and big. But not much photo taken here.

Back at my hotel and finally get to see my room. It looks like a mini villa or a studio. My only complain is the bath tub is so big that filling it up with water took almost 30 minutes. Beside this the room is fantastic.

I need to take a taxi so from Taipa to reach most tourist spot at Macau. Due to heavy traffic, the taxi refuse to actually stop at the St Paul Ruins and ask me to get out nearby and walk on my own.
Oh well.... I guess everywhere taxi is the same.

First stop is the Senato square. I almost can't recognize the place even though it has appear so many times in various different movie and tv drama.

I don't know what is the name of this building. But can see it is historic portugese design. So it should be old. Probably a hundred years old.

Inside need to be real quiet because can see some local people is having their prayer session.

After I come back, I found an article in the net, it say next to this statue near the St Paul ruins, that is a famous "Lover Lane". Hmm... not for me.

The front of the famous St Paul ruins. Almost a must visit place if you come to Macau. If you never check in here, you haven't visited Macau yet.

Many people told me the ruins is really just the front entrance still standing. From the back, you can't see a building or a church. I climb up the stair just to take this photo.

Next stop is another meal at a macau cafe. Steam egg desert this time. I really eat a lot in this trip...

The famous Lisboa casino. The casino really transform Macau from some small town to a major tourist spot it is today. Since casino and gambling is prohibited in China, millions of chinese flocking to Macau to gamble every year. And with the China economy going stronger, the number continue to grow.

The original Lisboa casino is getting old. Thus a newer casino is build right next to it. The design of the building looks very weird but I heard that there is some feng shui behind it. It is like many sword pierce right thru the center of the casino. Into the heart of gambler. So that they die losing all the money in the casino. I wonder if it is true.

Nearby here, there is a few more big casino such as Wynn.

Back to Ruo do Cunha for my dinner. The starbuck here looks very cute.

This is a famous portugese restaurant at Macau. But some find the food so so. Some feel it is good.
I heard a customer ask the waitress to recommend the nice food here, and the waitress comment is "I can't recommend for you because the food I find tasty might not suit your taste". I don't know I should say she is very honest or rude.

A cup of special red wine cocktail here and grilled beef rib steak. The steak feel dried but kind of good. I guess the waitress is right. Coz normally there will be some sauce to go with the steak but here it is quite plain. Can only say the portugese style food does not suit my taste bud.

Return to my room and enjoy the beautiful night scenery from my room.

Saturday, November 1, 2014

Hong Kong & Macau Trip - Day 3 - Ap Lei Chau Outlet

Pre Hong Kong & Macau trip | Hong Kong & Macau Trip - Day 1 - Comic Avenue | Hong Kong & Macau Trip - Day 1 - Victoria Harbour | Hong Kong & Macau Trip - Day 1 - Avenue of Star | Hong Kong & Macau Trip - Day 2 - Wong Tai Sin & Australia Dairy Co | Hong Kong & Macau Trip - Day 2 - Sheung Wan, Central, Wanchai, Clearwater Bay | Hong Kong & Macau Trip - Day 2 - The Peak | Hong Kong & Macau Trip - Day 3 - Tim Ho Wan | Hong Kong & Macau Trip - Day 3 - Ap Lei Chau Outlet | Hong Kong & Macau Trip - Day 4 - Macau | Hong Kong & Macau Trip - Day 5 - Hong Kong and home

Plan for the Evening & Night : Outlet Shopping at Ap Lei Chau (鴨脷洲) & Mongkok (旺角)
How to go Ap Lei Chau (鴨脷洲) : From Central Bus Terminal take the bus 590

Hong Kong is most famous for shopping. And today, my plan is to visit the outlet heaven part of Hong Kong, Ap Lei Chau.

After visit to this place, my learning experience is if Prada, Burberry, Coach is very expensive for you and you never think of purchasing the handbag, then you can skip this outlet area. Reason if a Prada normal price is RM5,000++. Even after a 50% discount, the bag will still be RM2,500++.
Please consider your budget before you visit.

For those who is not afraid of credit card debt, please continue to get a full detail of outlet shopping in Ap Lei Chau.

This is the bus stop at the terminal. You can use the Octopus card to pay the bus ride ticket. The bus depart every 30 minutes. And in case you wonder where should you got off the bus, well the last stop is where we want to go. So get off when the bus stop.

The 2 highlighted yellow spot is the terminal bus and the Prada space warehouse.

Once you reach here, you need to take note on the Marina Square. That is the location of Prada Space Warehouse. Prada Space Warehouse is official Prada outlet. Out of season item is sales here. Discount is about 30%-50%. But some people claim that you can even find item with 70% discount. Male and female clothing, shoes, leather wallet, handbag and even perfume.

I did not took photo in here because it is not allowed.

After finish your shopping at Prada warehouse, we are not done with the outlet shopping.
Another outlet shopping here is the Horizon Plaza. There is 30 floor in this building and you can find furniture, kids toys, books and branded clothing outlet here.

To reach, first walk towards the bus terminal again. Continue the other direction of the Marina Square.

From the bus terminal, follow the yellow highlight in the map above.

If you see this Shell sign, you are in the right direction. However the Horizon Plaza is quite far. You will need to walk 5-10 minutes more to reach Horizon Plaza. Luckily there is only one road. So you can just follow the road and continue till you see the building.

Finally reach the Horizon Plaza.

Above is all the list of outlet available here. There are more but is mainly furniture and kids toy. Only the above outlet is selling fashion related things.

If you are going to this place on a normal day, you better leave around 4pm. Because too late take the bus, and you might stuck in the Central traffic jam with the office worker leaving the office.

Dinner for the night, is roast goose rice. This shop is at Central area.

When I reach the shop, I see the Michelin 2014 awards here. They just got it for the year 2014.

One of the best roast goose rice I ever had.

After this nice roast goose rice, return to Kowloon area. And go to Mongkok area.
The area in Mongkok is famous for a few different district. Such as goldfish street, ladies street, sneaker street etc. All these street still maintain the street identity but it is slowly losing that appeal.
In fact after a walk here, I find it is very tourist spot. Mostly shopper are the tourist. One thing need to mention though, the Mongkok on Sunday night, is full of street performer. Some is really good.

Sunday, November 30, 2014

Hong Kong & Macau Trip - Day 5 - Hong Kong and home

Hong Kong & Macau Trip - Day 4 - Macau

Saturday, November 1, 2014

Hong Kong & Macau Trip - Day 3 - Ap Lei Chau Outlet

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