Showing posts with label San Francisco. Show all posts
Showing posts with label San Francisco. Show all posts

build your own door if there aren't any left

Saturday, 21 April 2012

Hong Kong and San Francisco were all kinds of awesome - eating and shopping non-stop!!

 Mango sago drink!

  ...with my roasted goose rice!

 Pork cutlet bun from Tsui Wah (翠華) 
which is one of my favourite restaurant/cafe (茶餐厅) in HK!

The famous condensed milk bun from Tsui Wah!
OMGGGG I MISS THIS NOW

 Of course we can't do without dim sum in HK ;)

 The food just kept coming it was crazy

Mango desserts from Xu Liu Shan (许留山) before some hardcore shopping!

 Mine!
The tiny glutinous rice balls are so chewy and to-die-for!!

After a few hours, we had bag within bag within bag...
SO MUCH FUN!

I've got a couple of questions on where's good to shop and eat in HK...
Here are a few of my personal favorites :)

S H O P

Fa Yuen Gai (花园街)
(Prince Edward station)
I would recommend going to this street for shopping first 
'cause it's the cheapest so you won't feel upset or cheated for buying the same piece of clothing 
at double the price somewhere else.

New Town Mall 
(exit D2 at Mongkok station)
3 or 4 storeys (I can't remember) of endless shopping! 
...only for girls though.
It's kinda like Platinum Mall/Far East Plaza.
I love this place!

H&M
Haha I know this is everywhere but I seldom visit Singapore's 
and HK has the cheapest H&M due to their weak currency.
My favourite outlets got to be the one in Mongkok and Tsim Sha Tsui 
which aren't as crowded as the one in Central, which always has no sizes.


E A T

Tsui Wah (翠華) 
I was first introduced to this restaurant by Sau and I've always been on the lookout for it after.
My boyfriend, my colleagues, my friends, everybody I know, 
LOVES this place!
Everything's nice but I usually order the condensed milk bun, 
pork cutlet bun and fishball/fishcake noodles.
Just go there ok???

Yung Kee
(Central 中環)
Famous for their roasted goose!
The last time I went, 
H and I had a feast of all their roasted meat!
Yummy but albeit oily.

Xu Liu Shan (许留山)
This dessert place needs no introduction, it's on every other street in HK.
Everybody knows it and everybody loves it :)

That's all I managed to pack into my two-day stay in HK!
Too short a stay to travel out of Kowloon and 
I cannot remember all the other nice places I went to on my previous trips.
Probably next time when I travel to HK for a holiday? ;)


Look, my new book!
I collected it from the concierge right after check-in and I was soooo excited 
I started downloading books despite being extremely tired.
It's lighter than a book and I think I made the right choice getting the Kindle Touch :)

 Skincare I got from Sephora.
Will do a review when I've got the time!

Omgggggg the besttttttt clam chowder from Boudin!
I don't have to travel all the way to Fisherman's Wharf just for a bowl of this anymore!
I accidentally chanced upon a Boudin Bakery right in the city of San Francisco, next to Macy's.
SCORE!


I've updated SHOPTIPPYTAPP if you're interested ;)

Back soon!

Rolly Polly Wolly

Friday, 10 February 2012


I didn't want to spend too much time shopping in San Francisco ('cause I've nothing to buy and I didn't want to make impulse purchases) so I suggested lunch to a few colleagues at Fisherman's Wharf.

Danny brought us for clam chowder!


 I've never had a bowl of clam shower to myself before, 
always a spoonful and decided it was enough 'cause I didn't like it.
But this was so good! 
The sourdough went perfectly with the soup and I was craving for another bowl when I finished!

We strolled around Pier 39 before heading for the second part of our lunch ;)





 That tiny island you see is Alcatraz!


 The sea lions stink.


Our second part to lunch was crabs!




Crab was huge and only US$20 but nothing like our chilli crabs.
Shared among the three of us and we were stuffed!


The most flamboyant car ever spotted in the city!


 Back in Seoul, Saufung brought me to this Korean restaurant in Hongdae 
which sells home cooked kinda food but we arrived too late, 
the restaurant was closing so the food just kept coming and coming... 
We had like 10 courses or something more. 
It was crazy but some of the dishes were yummy!
No pictures though.

As usual, we shifted to a cafe after dinner for desserts!
I was craving strawberry shortcake and there was a cafe just a few doors down selling it!

 Soooo good and not sweet!

A hot chocolate is essential to fight the cold outside



Seoul Tower from my room.
Don't be deceived by the sunshine, it was freezinggggg!


Lunch with my colleagues before shopping in Myeong Dong!
Gosh I miss the saba fish, the starters, the bean paste soup, the BBQ pork and even the rice...

I have a lot of cravings whenever I'm in Seoul haha 
and this time round it was the spicy rice cake with fish cake!
This looks SO YUMMY now that I'm looking at it again.
Sau is really the BEST host ever!
She searches for places to bring me to and satisfies all my cravings!

We each ordered this tasty rice with seaweed as a side 

 This was a drink mixed with South Korean oranges and soju.
A really delightful sweet drink 'cause we couldn't taste the alcohol at all!

I didn't know there was a difference between South Korean oranges and normal oranges 
till I saw it that night.
South Korean oranges have a hump!
(picture from google)


Currently at my 2nd home, London, now and it's snowing!
Normally I hate snow 'cause it wets my hair and the floor's slippery, blahblahblah.
But it's really so pretty, so magical.
And being in zero degree Celsius feels so comfortable after having gone through the -20dc torture in Seoul.