Hong Kong Study Tour Day 7 & 8

This lovely day, Prof Aminaton treat all of us a lunch at Tsim Sha Tsui. We mingle around with Muslim friends as throughout the trip they did not join us (the Chinese) during our free activities due to their eating restraint. 

Then, we spend the other half the day to eat the famous dim sum at (.... I forgotten where is it located) Tim Hou Wan. People practically line up for their dim sum as they are famous of their Kuai Fa Gou and the Char Siu Pao. You will regret if you did not tried these at Hong Kong as it was the most ...Fabulous food we ever tried. Satu Makan Dua Mau. 

Then we tried the dessert at Tong Pak Fu. The desserts were worth trying as the ice is so soft then the usual ‘Ice Flower’. 

Then we went buy biscuit from Kei Wah and Hang Heong. The butterfly biscuit from Kei Wah was nice but the Lou Po Peng from Hang Heong was normal only. Then we get ourselves few pairs of Baleno socks, around RM5 per pair at its promotion price. Then we also get ourselves some formal long sleeve and slacks from G2000 at around RM45 per long sleeve!!!

Day 8, Tuesday, this was the day we went back to Malaysia and most our wallet were already empty. You can buy last minute souvenir at CLK airport and souvenirs from Disneyland. We snap some few group photo and greeted each one of us as some of us will continue to further their studies and some will work at different places. The conclusion of the story is, Hong Kong was a nice place to visit if you have visited Taiwan. Their railway and public transport was efficient and suitable to backpackers. You can get branded shirt at Hong Kong at cheaper price while at Taiwan you can get all types of fashionable clothes (unbranded but with acceptable quality).

Hong Kong Study Tour Day 6

Early in the morning, I and Yang How went to church service. You can found church quiet easily at Hong Kong. After that, we meet with the rest at the Star Ferry Pier. Attention, do not buy your ticket from the agent. You will notice there are several counters actually selling ticket to Macau. Do proceed and insist to buy from the New World First Ferry Services counter which will cost you around HKD290. If you bought from the agent, they will charge you around HKD320. You may request for departure time of ferry from the counter. The earliest from Tsim Sha Tsui is 7am. Last trip back from Macau will be at 10pm or 1030pm. When we reach Macau, we get ourselves a map of Macau for references. 

The public transport there was very cheap. Macau do accept HKD as MOP, so you no need to went through the hassle by converting the money and pay for the transaction difference between both currency.  We drop of at Senado Square and walk all the way to St Paul Ruins. We have our lunch at Wong Chi Kei which is famous of their noodles. You can find most of the Macau famous thing on the way to the ruins. A little tips, do not buy biscuit on the way to the ruins, but only after you visited the ruins then you get yourself some of the Macau famous biscuit and egg tarts so that you no need to carry the entire souvenir up to the ruins and back down. 

Then we headed back to Wynn’s Casino for it Musical Fountain. On the way, we have the famous Portuguese Egg Tart at Margeret’s Cafe e Nata, the egg tart taste was legendary! I forgotten the actually location, however, it is on the way from Senado Park to Wynn’s Casino and it is located at the back of the street. We took Wynn’s Casino free shuttle bus back to harbour and hop on to the Venetian’s Casino free shuttle bus. 

Venetian Casino is famous of its beautiful architecture and it is the largest single structure hotel building in Asia and the fourth-largest building in the world by area. Another tips for future visitation to Macau, you can actually hope on to the Wynn’s Casino free shuttle bus from the harbour and walk to Senado Square. It is only around 10 min walking distance from Wynn’s Casino.

Hong Kong Study Tour Day 5

We went to Hong Kong University (HKU) for their laboratories visitation. Due to our visitation was in middle of their examination, they were unable to organise us a campus tour around HKU. Their lab instrumentation was similar to those we watch in movies, old facilities yet sophisticated. HKU students have more influence than their lecturer and they have the choice whether to attend a class or skip it and lecturer was not allow to record attendance. May be they felt university student should already have the ability to decide anything on themselves. UTM, UTM....when is your turn? 

Lab visitation last for around 2 hours. We then head toward to have lunch at the famous Wan Tan Mee. The Wan Tan Mee really live to its name, Ichiban!! We have our after lunch desert at Western Market, after that, we head to the Peak Tram Station on the “Ding Ding” Tram.

We pay in package HKD200/pax for the round ticket, Madame Tussauds and Peak Tower entrance fee. We have Mc Donald at Victoria Peak. We visiting the peak at the wrong time as haze was surrounded the peak and we basically saw nothing. We went to Lan Kwai Fong after that. Lan Kwai Fong basically consists of many pubs, nothing really special over there, so we went to Causeway Bay. A lot of shopping malls located at Causeway Bay.

Hong Kong Study Tour Day 4

At Day 4, we went to ARUP for site visitation. ARUP had arranged four different site visitations mainly regarding on slope stabilization each with different site constrain. 

Bravo to ARUP as they provide food and transportation for the whole day and we felt we are the VIPs coming to inspect their site. Their construction site was super TIDY!! In Malaysia context, it is insane for such tidy site to exist as this has direct link to their cost. That night, we have tour around Temple Street. Temple street had more eateries compare to other place in HK and yet affordable. There are a lot of shops selling Guai Lin Gou at Temple Street. There is a specific shop which sold a quite expensive Guai Lin Gou Tea in a bottle, but the taste was superb.

Hong Kong Study Tour Day 3

At Day 3, we went to Hong Kong Geotechnical Office (HKGO). In the morning session, we went to Public Work Civil Laboratory (PWCL) for lab visitation. 

In the afternoon, we have some speeches regarding on the history of geotechnical issues in Hong Kong and development of HKGO. 

They surely went through hardship and many people have died for their boost in development. That may be the reason why they so concern about the safety on site. Contractors have to get approval on several matters before they can proceed on their work. We have our dinner near Tsim Sha Tsui and went to Victoria Harbour and Avenue of Star. This 2 places just a walking distance apart. There will be Symphony of Light every night (8pm if not mistaken) near Victoria Harbour. There will be a platform for audience purposes and it is free of charge.