7 am Sunday - 18th May 2008 - 2nd day of our stay in Hong Kong :

Good morning Smartie & Sparkie!!

Heheh our 2 precious babies were already seated back to back against each other on bed when Dear & I woke up & saw them…………& we both swore that their behavingly so adorably has got nothing to do with us at all!!

What amazingly beautiful sights upon waking up - Smartie & Sparkie must be silently playing with each other while we were still sleeping under the comfortable warm blanket haha!

And a Very Happy Happy Merry Cheery 6th Wedding Anniversary to both Dear & Myself - a most gorgeous White Wedding Cake with Pinky Roses with a loveliest Wedding Couple standing atop CARD which I secretly hid all the way from home to Beijing to Tianjin to Chengde & now to Hong Kong……then surprising Dear in our Harbour Plaza Resort City hotel room upon his waking up this very special morning!!

This most sweetest memorable day 6 years ago was when Dear & I celebrated our Marriage with our Chinese Customary Wedding & Dinner :

I was really delighted to chance upon this most beautiful 3D Wedding CARD when I was holidaying in Johor Bahru with Dear sometime back………& of course I immediately grabbed & paid for it knowing that I’d be needing it this very special day of ours!!

Haha actually, I’m a Cards lover & have been since I was at a very young teenage age - I remember I would make all sorts of lovely unique special cards such as “Birthday Cards, Xmas Cards, New Year Cards, Missing You Cards, Wishing You Well Cards, & All Kinds of Reasons & Occasions That I Can Think Of Cards etc etc for friends & family members & loved ones who’d been studying or staying abroad!!  

At the same time, I loved to shop for Cards & purchased them for keepsake or future future use, & since then I’ve been really obessed with Cards & these habbits of mine never stop till today!!

And do you know I’ve now got hundreds of Cards to my Collection todate & I figure I’ll never ever be able to send them all out till my very last breadth on earth haha!!

And here’s some words of appreciations for my hubby Dear on this so pretty CARD - Happiest 6th Wedding Anniversary to you my dearest darling - Muacks Muacks love you so much so much :

Well, below is the Name Card of our Hong Kong tour guide Nick Yeung, who’d be bringing us on this 2nd day of ours in Hong Kong - a complimentary City Tour of Hong Kong - well, not entirely free cos we’d still need to pay for our optional Breakfast & Lunch, as well as Tips for Nick & the Coach driver etc, a total of S$60 or more for both Dear & myself : 

Nick & the Coach driver picked us up at Harbour Plaza Resort City & brought us to downtown Tsim Sha Tsiu (Kowloon) for breakfast Yum Cha (or Dim Sum) - a combination of 2 Restaurants in one :

Name Card of Foo Lum Fisherman’s Wharf Restaurant, Hong Kong :

Name Card of Pleasant Palace Restaurant, Hong Kong :

We’re now entering the Restaurants - Hong Kong people love Yam Cha (a term in Cantonese meaning “Drink Tea”) & the Restaurants were already packed with locals & tourists by 9am then :

Dear seated at our dining table, with 6 other tour mates of ours - a Puerto Rico & Swedish couple who were living in Singapore, a Singaporean Mom & Daughter pair, & another Singaporean elderly Chinese couple :

Below show the Restaurants’s Dim Sum selections which diners normally tick on the menus on whichever items they wana order & the Hong Kong Cuisines will be served to them - too bad we’d no say at all on this breakfast of ours cos our Dim Sums were all ordered by our tour guide Nick :

Chinese Crullers (or “You Tiao”) - Most Crunching & appetizing :

Savoury steaming hot Pork with Century Egg Congee (or “Pi Dan Zhou” in Chinese) - the Hong Kong people usually like to dip the “You Tiao” into the Congee for breakfast - simply delicious :

Vinegar (best for Congee) & Red Chili Sauce for Dim Sum dipping :

Deep Fried Spring Rolls - very crunchy & tasty :

Huge Bamboo Basket filled with Char Siew Bao (or BBQ Pork Buns), Siew Mai (minced Pork with Shrimps), Hao Gao (Shrimp Dumplings) & Pork with Vegatables Dumplings - all so yummy yummy :

It was Dear & my very 1st time seeing such gigantic Bamboo Basket of Dim Sums :

Beautiful Beautiful :

See how huge it really was - view from on top as I immediately stood up & took a snapshot; followed suit by our Swedish tour mate heheh :

Steamed Rice Flour wrapped with Char Siew (or “Zhu Chang Fen wrapped with BBQ Pork”) - very very nice - Dear’s all-time favourite :

Dear & I had a  good breakfast - though we’d been thinking we would both order lots lots more if we were both dining alone & not on a tour group cos we both love Hong Kong Dim Sums haha!! GREEDY GREEDY us!!!

Anyway, we both had a really good chat with our tour mates too, when the Swedish man commented that Dear held his chopsticks really well, & that his Puerto Rico partner was only starting to learn to hold chopsticks upon arriving in Singapore, & that he too can’t hold his very well. And I was also sharing with them that I can’t hold my chopsticks well either & that I even once poked my grandma (who was sitting beside me) with my index finger when eating with my chopsticks!!! Haha it was all so funny!!

Dear later started teaching them his correct way & tactic of holding chopsticks & we really had fun chatting & having Yum Cha together, & Me introducing to the Puerto Rico & Swedish couple each & every of the Dim Sums that we ate, telling them of their different names & ingredients etc etc!

Well, I’ve put in the following a Slideshow containing the rest of my photos taken inside the Yum Cha Restaurants, with pics of my most yummiest Dim Sum - Bao, Siew Mai, Hao Goa & Egg Tarts Souvenir Magnets from my World Souvenir Magnets Collection - enjoy enjoy :

It’s toilet break now after Yum Cha before we set off on our morning tour in Hong Kong - see you later!!