Hong Kong Day 3

Trip to Hong Kong would not complete if without trying dim sum. These are delightful, mouth-watering Chinese snacks served in steaming bamboo baskets and eaten with pots and pots of Chinese tea for breakfast or lunch. Steamed pork buns, shrimp dumplings, beef balls and pan-fried squid with spicy salt are just some of the local favourites.

A man wearing patrol shirt and taking his dogs for walk 

Early Market in Mong Kok

Residential place in Mong Kok

Early chit-chat 

 After long search and filter by popularity and pricing, I recommend a dim sum restaurant located at Mong Kok, Tim Ho Wan Dim Sum Specialist. 添好运点心专门店. Please be mind that the queue time is extremely long. From far, we saw a long queue but the shop has not yet starts serving. However, I am not regret for spending 1 and half hour queue for this. This restaurant worth my 5 stars apart from long queue. Let me explain why, come to dim sum, the meat quality should come at the first place. No doubt the shrimp and fish are so juicy and succulent and you can’t stop a bite. They served Chinese tea and it is refilled for foc. I ordered for pork bun, pork dumpling, shrimp dumpling, fried fu zhok, steamed pork buns and Osmanthus cake. The services are excellent; waiter and boss are friendly and teach tourists the way to eat dim sum and takes photo for the group. We are glad to see the bill price is cheap and it makes me to give 5 stars.

The queue before shop opened

Tick the food you want to order on the list

Shrimp Dumpling

Steamed port bun

Pork dumpling

Fish balls

Fried FuZhok

Osmanthus cake

Long queue for dim sum

Mong Kok is known as popular shopping street market in Hong Kong. For fashion lovers you could find bargained handbag, handphone case, camera, shoes, clothes and many other things. There are few streets where you must-visit. Lady Market(女人街)(D3 exit from Mong Kok),  Tung Choi Street(通菜街), Xi Yong Choi Street (西洋菜街).

Lady's Market

Tung Choi Street signboard

Along the crowded streets, there are a lot of good snacks which are curry fish ball, egg puff(鸡蛋仔), stink taufu(臭豆腐), Yoji mannose (杨枝甘露).

curry fish ball

Egg puff

We missed to go to Stanley because had wasted some time on the breakfast queuing. Stanley is a small town situated at the South of Hong Kong Island. It has a very beautiful beach and you could buy a coffee/tea and sit at the café beside the beach and enjoy the breeze. Personally I think Stanley is a very relaxing place to go after tones of shopping and people squeezing. Travel does not need to visit all the must-go places. In fact, it is the time to relax and slow down our pace which we have missed in our daily life.

In order to reach Stanley, take subway to Causeway Bay (exit B), cross over the road and take bus 40.

銅鑼灣站的B站出來出站，過馬路到斜對面的波斯富街旁的登龍街街口
(即大新銀行旁的街口) 小巴40線赤柱村↔銅鑼灣（登龍街）

The attraction place in Stanley are 赤柱市集, 濱海餐廳街、美利樓, 赤柱卜公碼頭.

At evening, we went to Causeway Bay and there is all about Shopping again and you can take a stroll for Fashion Walk, Island Beverley, The Lee Gardens, Lee Theatre Plaza, Times Square and World Trade Centre.

Causeway Bay

Forever 21 at Causeway Bay

Chui Hwa Restaurant

Day 3 is basically about shopping and walking. My girlfriend really enjoying and perhaps this is the natural behavior of woman. On the other hand, I enjoy eating and trying new food and snack, looking for some gadget. See you in the next day.