First thing?
Breakfast!
Actually, despite not being a morning person, I love breakfast! To be specific, breakfast-type meals. I’m happy that someone came up with “All-day breakfast” term in the food industry.
I know it’s not healthy to start the day without any breakfast but I’d rather snooze away that precious few minutes than to spend it eating.
So, I headed out for breakfast…after 930am. It was pretty late but I had no plans and I wasn’t rushing anywhere. My goal is just to stay out of people’s way if I were to take my own sweet time.
This is Poreiz’s place. Gives meaning to high-rise buildings.
I didn’t need a map or directions to get to CongeeOne because we walked by it yesterday night.
I had the century egg+pork porridge/congee, of course!
When you eat alone, you have time and concentration to savour your food. Though it looks kind of watery, I can assure you it’s not. It’s smooth, “gummy” and full of flavour – thinking about it now makes me salivate! I wonder do they soak the rice overnight or do they boil the rice with broth instead of just water (then add seasoning)…how do they make porridge like that?
Going for HKD22, it is well worth it. Some places in Malaysia probably give you a sliver of egg in their “century egg porridge” but this one – I think they probably dumped one whole egg in the bowl!
I noticed that the few young girls that were in the shop were very si man with their porridge – just a tiny parting of the lips to slurp their porridge. Yours truly went at it like the sharks in Jaws, of course.
Hazel wrote a list of things I could do/see/eat for the day and I was to meet her back at home so that she could bring me to the hotpot place for dinner.
Her directions were precise. You wouldn’t be able to see it but I was nearing the overhead bridge, exactly like how she said I’d find/see it.
The very connected overhead bridge.
I think this was where I accidentally bumped into an older lady’s shopping cart (I had a bruise from it, too!) and she turned to look at me like she was going to give me the shelling of my life. At the very moment I bumped into her, the split second before she turned to look at me – I panicked and couldn’t think of the word “sorry” in Cantonese. When she did look at me, I just lifted my hand, lightly tapped my temple and managed to mutter, “Mm hou yi si.” Phew!
The very wide zebra crossing.
I think this is Sai Yeung Choi Street – Hazel mentioned a shop that she goes to for her gear(s).
I did think of browsing for a bit but when I got there, I decided not to. It’s dangerous to go in when I’m not quite prepared to spend any money. I may spend money I don’t have!
HSBC – people standing right outside the bank, looking at the share market updates.
I remember movies about people in HK spending all their money on shares and ended up penniless.
I was supposed to walking along PrinceEdward Road – have no idea when I go onto the parallel road, which is FlowerMarket Road. No wonder so many flower shops! D’oh!
Had to cross the road before I could get to Royal Plaza.
The story of how I got here started from Langham Place. I was slightly hungry then but didn’t dare to go into any shops because it was lunch time. So I went jalan-jalan. While walking around I saw ThomasSabo – I thought, “Hey! I could get Sze-Mien a present here.”
They didn’t have the credit card charm but the staff was very kind to point me to Royal Plaza. She even told me that they were having a sale on selected items. That’s how I walked all the way there (glad it wasn’t scorching hot!) – but the charm that I wanted to get wasn’t on sale. That’s when I texted LiMay to ask if she wanted to share!
End of my adventure. I’m tired, thirsty and hungry – and with all that, the walk home seemed so long!
Okay! Stop by Langham again for dessert!
The escalator enticed me sampai ended up on the wrong floor and have to walk a few floors down to the place Hazel suggested.
Finally!
I think it was past 230pm so the place was pretty empty.
Mango+Pomelo Sago dessert.
The presentation wasn’t too impressive so I didn’t bother to take a “before” – it was yummy, though!
Construction/repairs at most corners of the roads.
See that trolley? Common sight at MongKok.
Main road also got.
The tumpang culture in HK – to save space/time, I guess. I was told it was because of the rent – so they had to make sure they serve enough people, have enough table turnovers during peak hours.
C’est la vie!
Hungry mah, remember? So went to get this from 7-11.
Steamed rice (the rice very nice leh!) with XO sauce pork spareribs.
415pm eat one BIG bowl of rice…how to go for dinner later?
