Hong Kong - Day 4

It's day 4 and today i am going to explore Central. Woke up and took a train straight to Central for breakfast. Upon reaching Central station, first thing i am going to do is to find a place for breakfast. So i went in search of Wai Kee porridge, i am not exactly a porridge fan but i heard porridge in Hong Kong is very different from ours (Singapore) ... the rice is boiled so thoroughly that it had dissolved ... it took me not very long to find this porridge place and i ordered lean meat and century egg porridge along with fried dough and rice roll... had a very full and fulfilling breakfast. The porridge indeed tasted different from my mum's porridge and those i ate in Singapore so far.


Next stop, i went in search of Man Mo temple... took a 10-15 minutes walk to reach my destination. Initially I thought the temple was those big and grand type but the temple turned out to be quite modest in size. As today was a weekday, there isn't much tourists around, good! So i toured around and took some shots of the temple interior. After my visit to Man Mo temple, i took another long walk of about 30-45 minutes to further down Central... to take some shots of some iconic buildings such as Bank of China Tower but due to the glaring sun and hot weather, i decided to take just a few photos and took a train back to Sheung Wan station in search of Kau Kee beef brisket noodles which is strongly recommended to me by a friend. It took me quite a while before i find the place and i nearly went into a similar name shop. And alas! i ordered the wrong type of noodle, should have ordered the rice noodle :( but this noodle indeed taste good and the soup broth is very rich with favor. I like! I will eat it again the next time i visit Hong Kong.



After lunch, i decided to take a tram up to The Peak and get ready for sunset photo taking. The journey up The Peak via the tram is pretty fast, along the way i seen for myself how steep the slopes can be, just imagined you had to climb your way up to The Peak! After exploring around The Peak surroundings for a while and i decided to take cover at Starbucks and sit down for a drink to kill some time while waiting for sunset since i can only visit the viewing platform on a single entry basis and it is way too early to go up to the platform now. Time passes very fast and soon i am on the viewing platform and the usual me took an unconventional approach to shoot a different angle from the viewing platform that usually people will do... hehe, too bad there is no sunset to be seen today due to bad cloudy weather but i managed to capture some good cloud movements from the angle where i was shooting! Overall i find the usual photo spot for The Peak had been "shot to death", so i only shoot a couple of shots and left The Peak to look for my dinner, actually intended to eat Mak's Noodle (Wanton Noodle) but they closed too early, so in the end i settled for a typical Hong Kong cafe nearby for dinner. Dinner isn't fantastic though.


And that's it for day 4 for me... resting for the night for day 5!



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