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Lantao Island (大屿山)

November 5th, 2008 | by jys |

Today is the third day of our HK trip. Time flies ya!! Today we will have a lot of activities as well. We are going to Tung Chung (东涌) City gate Outlets shopping center (東薈城名店倉) to shop for branded stuff. I did some research and the City Gate outlet is like a branded factory outlet, got Espirit, Giordano, Bossini, Levis, Adidas, Nike and many many more. Then we will be heading to the Ngong Ping 360 （昂坪）, to take the Ngong Ping Cable Car to the famous ‘Dai Yu San’ (Lantao Island 大屿山) . What do we have there? The giant buddha (大佛) and vegetarian food. Sounds great right?

Before we start our journey, we picked another char chan teng (通达食店) which is near to our hotel to have breakfast. Guess what i had for breakfast? The famous HK curry fish ball! hehe..After breakfast, we took MTR to Tung Chung.

FL’s friend is also meeting us today. Apparently he had not been to Lantau Island before even though he had worked in HK for almost a year. So he took this opportunity to go see see 6 6 with us. When we arrived at the Tung Chung station, he’s only on his way. We decided to go to the City Gate to shop first.

Maybe I had put too high expectation on this City Gate Shopping Centre that is why I felt a bit disappointed when I see those branded shops. There’s really a lot of shops there but the clothes or the bags are not really that nice lar. Out of so many branded shop, I only managed to buy a t shirt and a bag from Espirit.

FL’s friend called us when he arrived at the Tung Chung station. So we left the City gate to meet up with him. The day before, I told him I would like to try the Chinese Red Bean Pudding (缽仔糕) but I can’t seems to find any. He promised to buy one for me to try cos there’s a stall selling near where he stay. And he did brought 2 pieces of ‘put zai gou’ for us to try! I love it but FL said not nice. hehe..

What’s next? It’s cable car time!! So scary lar, I’m afraid of height ler, but die die also must go up to Lantau Island! hehe..

It was about 11am and again, we saw something familiar, long long queues!! ~sigh, seems like everywhere i go also need to queue lar..

While we were queuing, I saw this super geng auntie, she almost climbed out just to wipe the outer window!! Salute to her!!

We thought it’s our turn after we got our tickets but who knows, still need to queue lar!! really pengsan!!

FL and his friend were happily looking down, up and taking pictures but me, I just look straight only. Dare not look down at all! ~sigh.. So the photos below were all taken by FL, not me. hehe..

Finally finally finally, we were there!! I’m so brave lar. hehe.. Cannot be so happy first lar, later have to go down by cable car also ler.. :p

It was already about 2pm. We decided to have our vegetarian lunch first before we climbed up these stairs. No energy lar!!

It was a hot sunny day, stuffy and hot. We were all sweating, with umbrella, with cap, with my little fan, I still feel so hot!! Some more need to climb these stairs.. phew..

We spotted the altar of the famous Hong Kong Singer, Anita Mui inside the big buddha. Remember to keep your vegetarian lunch resit as you need that resit to enter into the big buddha. No camera was allowed so I didn’t manage to take any pictures. After spending 30 - 45 minutes there, we went down.

The weather is really very very hot. We decided to rest a while and tried the Moutain Water Tao Fu Fa (山水豆腐花) at a small shop. Nothing special lar, we can get better ‘tau fu fa’ here!

There are 2 rows of shops there, shops selling food, tidbits, souvenirs, clothes and etc. We only went in because there’s air con!! Since each of us have HKD 10 cash vouchers, we used that to buy ourselves a drink at the famous Honeymoon Dessert (西贡-满记甜品). Yummy Yummy!!

It was 4pm+ and we decided to leave the Lantau Island. Again, we have to queue to ride the cable car. Suddenly the weather changed, from bright sunny hot sky to a sky full of dark clouds.

I’m glad I’m not at one of these cable cars cos the wind is really strong. When it started to rain, I open my umbrella and guess what, my umbrella is broken the minute i opened it!! The rain was so heavy and the wind was soooo strong. It was really very scary!! The cable car stop service because of the weather. We were all stuck there for an hour!! No place to sit, everyone standing and squeezing like sandwich.

When we were finally back to Tung Chung, it was already 6pm+! On our way to the MTR station, we bought two egg tarts from Pie & Tart Specialist (蛋挞专门店). These egg tarts taste really nice!!

It was really a very tiring day. We decided to go back to our hotel to take a bath before we go out to find food for our dinner. We found a very nice shop selling yummy beef noodles ‘ngao lam min’ （牛腩面） and wan tan mee (云吞面) with big big wan tan!! Ahh, I miss the wan tan sooo much!! hehe…

That’s our third day of Hong Kong trip. It was exciting, fun, scary and full of adventures. hehe, what a day!!

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