Life in the pink box: holiday

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Monday, April 06, 2009

Sakura season in Tokyo!

Back from our Tokyo trip and boy do i miss Japan already!
The sakuras were lovely... and best of all, they were pink! My favorite color! :P
Here are some lovely pictures from my trip!

And a special part of the trip was that I got to meet Bella!! :)
(Oh Bella... only shortly after we parted ways, I realized I forgot to get a picture with you!) :S

Wednesday, December 24, 2008

greetings!!

designed this for the company greeting and I'm putting it here too to wish you all a Merry Christmas and an excellent new year!
Happy holidays! :)

Tuesday, June 24, 2008

More rain! But luckily in a much lighter form.
We decided to stay in the Mongkok area as we were leaving HK in the afternoon.
Went to Fa Yuen Street again as I had to get pastries from the old bakery to bring back. Along the way we passed by the goldfish market.

I saw this cute pom patiently waiting for its master to finish breakfast. How cute! I think I saw the 2 of them(old man and dog) a few days before walking in the market. :)
What a good doggie!
Caught the hotel's airport shuttle to the airport and took in the last few sights of Hong Kong from the bus. Something about their dense living fascinates me...mish mash of apartments, old and new, packed closely together.

While waiting for our plane back, spotted some mascot planes... :)

And for my in-flight meal back, I had the beef noodle set. Must say that its not bad... :P

Hong Kong trip Day 4

It rained on us on the 4th day. :S
look at how heavy it was...

can't even see the skyline on the Central side.
We went to Harbour city in Tsim Sha Tsui to wait for the rain to get lighter b4 we crossed over to Central and Sheng Wan. At least there was City Super there to help pass the time! :)
We had lunch at the city super food court.

After quite a few days of no spicy food, we decided to try Curry-in-a-Hurry. (what a quirky name!)
This is an Indian stall in the food court selling curry sets. Well, not bad and also rather generous portions i must say! I had the fish curry set which also came with a mango lassi. Stuffed!
After lunch, with the rain gone, we visited the Western Market at Sheng Wan.

This is one of the historical buildings in Hong Kong island and houses shops and a bakery.

At the entrance, Mr D got 'assaulted' by one model tin soldiers at the door. Hahaha..
We walked along some streets near cat street and ladder streets(think i know why the name came about!) after that and my, you'll need lotsa leg muscles here as most of the walkways are made up of steep stairways as the city was built on the side of a mountain.

If I had to go to school this way, I think i might drop out after a while! imagine climing up all these stairs every morning! Urgh!

Stairs run up along every side path here! Those who stay here must have great legs muscles. They even have small stalls along the sides of these stairs! I was really worn out!
We ended the evening back at Kowloon, at the new and huge Elements Mall in Tsim Sha Tsui. Too tired to take the train, we took a cab back to Mongkok. :P

Hong Kong trip Day 3

OK so here are some day 3 pics.
Hmmm, day 3 seems like a super long day. we went to many places but i think I shall blog it as a good food day! hahaha. (coz think we had lots of it on this day)
we started out at the Mongkok area and visited the flower market. too bad its all see and no buy! heheh, they bouquets are so nice and reasonably priced!
Saw a cute corgi walking along the market.. so cute! :) I like corgis.

After the flower market, we headed to the nearby shopping street (fa yuen st, my fav)

and also went to the pastry shop there and got some munchies. :P After shopping, we headed for our 'yum cha' meal at Langham Place. This was like the highlight for the day. My sis had read about Ming Court's popularity and we decided to try it out and it was GOOOD!! :P
Ming Court, Langham Place Hotel
Level 6, Langham Plach Hotel,
555 Shanghai Street Mong Kok
We had:

Pan fried radish cake

Salmon and cheese tarts

Pan fried mushroom stuffed buns

Steamed rice rolls with scallop and green beans

Steamed sliced chicken with dates and herbs

Xiao long bao (soup filled steamed dumplings)

Pan fried vegetable buns

Just couldn't resist ordering the steamed custard buns! And no regret about this one at all! :P Best I ever had!
After the super satisfying meal, we decided to head down to HK island as the weather was looking good. (we were lucky.. there was a 90% chance of rain that day , or so the forecast said)
We heard of some shops round the wan chai area and decided to check them out. also heard of Xi Yan Sweets there, which had good desserts. Hahhaa, ok, so we have sweet tooths! :P And by the time we got to Xi Yan, we had already walked lunch off.
Xi Yan Sweets
1 G/F 8 Wing Fung Street, Wan Chai

There was only another table that was taken when we got there, so we mostly got the place to ourselves. Nice red. white and black decor. All the items on the menu sounded so good that we took some time in deciding what we should order.

My mom preferred to stick to more traditional desserts and ordered the lotus seed soup. :)

My sis, being a big lover of anything with osmanthus, went with the lychee ice cream with osmanthus wine and enjoyed every bit of it.

I had the apple crisp ice cream. The sourish taste of the apples was a refreshing difference from the sweet caramel. Yummy!
Mr D went for the tea set which had the option of an appetizer and a dessert.

He had the fried radish patty with XO sauce and had the

signature dumplings in ginger soup, which really blew us away! Most unique and best 'tang yuan' we've ever had with a peanut, sesame, salted egg yolk, sugared melon bits and butter filling. Slurp! This was the winner of the meal!