~bb's diary~: Hong Kong part 1

Hong Kong- is one of the popular place to travel in Asia-Pacific. It is a country with high economic growth and high standard of living. I visit to HK on the beginning of Jun 2011. Excited!! Honestly, I definitely fall in love in this country after I visit HK. I went to HK for 7 days with my baby ahd his friends.

Before leaving Malaysia

Excited!! My mum specially lend me her original Longcham bag..
WOW!!

Goodbye Malaysia

My baby and me took Malaysia Airline to fly to HK.

Although the flight ticket is very expensive,

but what i feel comfortable along my journey

They provide dinner: bread, fish rice, egg salad, dessert, chocolate and pepsi.

Nice dinner and i love it.

Besides,

you can request to get some souvenir from stewardess.

Hong Kong Airport is the world's best airport.

Accommodation:

There has 2 types of accommodation you can choose in HK.

First, budget hotel

Second, 4 or 5 star hotel.

The accommodation fee in HK is quite expensive.

The room normally cost for HK$500 above per night(RM200 above)

Another things you need to know is

the price for the room is not fix price.

It change everyday depends on the season.

This is the budget hotel i stay in the first night.

It quite small but comfortable.

I stay in the Marriot HK Skycity Hotel near to the airport start on second day.

The room is so big for 2 people.

It so comfortable and

i really like it.

But,

the price for this room is around HK$1000 above per night(RM400 above).

So, if really want to save the cost,

choose budget hotel is better.

Transportation:

Another things make me feel impress in HK is
the advance transportation.
There are 4 transport you can use in HK.
1) Taxi

There are 3 type of taxi:
i) red (as pic above)-only can go city(HK, Mongkok..) and airport
-the cost expensive a bit compare to other taxi
ii) blue- only can go Lantau (大嵎山）area
-so, you just can take blue taxi to go Lantau area
-If you stay the hotel nearby airport,
i suggest you to take blue taxi instead of red because blue taxi more cheaper.
iii) green- only can go Xin Jie (新界)area
-the cost cheaper than red taxi

2) Small Bus

If you are the HK drama fans,
you sure have see this bus before.
You can take this transport if you really know how to take.

3）Double Decker bus

This bus only drive in selected area.
It is so convenient for HK people to go one place due to
the efficiency of the transportation.

4) MRT

Most of the time,
i will take MRT compare to other transprtation in HK.
The MRT in HK really convenience and fast.
It normally take 5-8 minute to reach the station.
Compare to Malaysia KTM or LRT,
you totally will feel suck about the Malaysia Train system.

Once you reach HK Airport,

the most important thing to do is to get a HK map.

You can get it in airport.

After that,

you can take MRT from airport to go

1) tsing yi 青衣

2) kowloon　九龙

3) Hong Kong Island　香港岛

So,

you have to know the hotel located in which area.

Then,

you only can change the train when reach one of the station.

Food:

HK has a lot of famous food that you must try if you come here.

1) Roast Goose 烧鹅

You can't find the roast goose in Malaysia .

2) Hong Kong Dim Sum 点心

har gao虾饺

chu cheong fun猪肠粉

xiao long bao小笼包

3）HK Polo Bun 波囖包

4) HK Milk Tea 奶茶

5) Ice Lemon Tea 冷柠檬茶

6) Gong Zai Mee公仔面
i love the HK Gong Zai mee.
If you feel hungry in the midnight,
you can go 7-11 to buy the cup mee.
There have a lot of flavor and
it really delicious and
you can't find it in Malaysia.

HK people mostly will use their octopus card (八达通）widely in HK.

This card same with the 'Touch n Go' used in Malaysia.
The advantage of the octopus card is
you can use this card for payment in various of place such as
-MRT
-Bus
-Vending machine
-7-11
-fast food restaurant
-supermarket
-and others
In order to encourage people to use octopus card in HK,
government set the lower price for the transportation fare rate to
octopus card user compare to those buying the train ticket.
Although the difference of the fare rate is not really large,
this strategy look effective to encourage people to use it.

Although i went to HK for 1 week,
i'm not visit to many place in HK.
I plan to go Macau and Shen Zhen if i visit HK next time.
Most of the time,
i went to go shopping when in HK
Needless to say that,
HK is the heaven of shopping.

The shop that you need to go in HK:

1) Sasa Shop

- it is a famous shop for skin care, hair care, body care and fragrance

2) Esprit Shop

3) Bossini Shop

4) Geordano Shop

- famous clothes shop in HK

- the price really cheap compare in Malaysia

5) branded shop

-Gucci

-LV

-Prada