Joei & Me

Day 2

As luck would have it, the world premiere of Transformers 4: Age of Extinction is during the same week that we're in Hong Kong.   We heard that Optimus Prime arrived the same day we did so we decided to go look for him.    Before we started on our quest to find him, Gene suggested that we first buy drinks at Hui Lau Shan.

Hello! I'm back from my US trip so hopefully I have time to catch up on my blogging in the next few weeks.  But before I continue with my posts about our recent Hong Kong trip, I want to write about this first.

I'm sure all of you heard about the big controversy surrounding an event sponsored by PLDT and Manny V. Pangilinan (MVP).  If you haven't, well, there was supposed to be a game between NBA players and the Gilas Pilipinas team at the Smart Araneta Coliseum last week.  Patron seats reached P23,000 ($511) each but since there are a lot of basketball fans in the country, tickets still sold despite the steep prices.  Turns out, the NBA did not allow its players to do this event so the 5-on-5 game against the Gilas team was canceled and the players resorted to scrimmage and drills.

As luck would have it, I was given passes by one of the sponsors of the Gilas Pilipinas team (thank you Max's Chicken! #pusotothemax) so NBA fan T didn't have to buy tickets to the game.

While eating our egg waffles, we walked to Pak Sha Road to find NikeLab.

After eating, Di took us to Times Square in Causeway Bay.  It's easy to go there via the Mass Transit Railway (MTR) since the station exit is directly at the lower level of the mall.

By the time we got out of our hotel rooms, it was already after lunch.  Gene suggested that we try The Sweet Dynasty for our first meal in Hong Kong.   However, we had a hard time finding it even if Gene is familiar with the area.  We went around and around, getting hungrier and hungrier for every block we walked.

Since my friends are the ones who frequent Hong Kong, I let them pick our hotel.  We stayed in a serviced-residence/boutique hotel called Butterfly on Prat which is in Tsim Sha Tsui, an urban area in Southern Kowloon, Hong Kong.

This is the colorful lobby of the hotel which always smells good whatever time of day. 

I still have travel posts in my drafts folder but while my memory is fresh, I want to tell you about our trip to Hong Kong last week :)