What do you got? We just got the Hong Kong waffle.
This is what it looks like.
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Good morning from Taiwan. It is currently 7:59 and we are heading to the train station
Sabrina and I are off on a little bit of an adventure today. We're heading to Hong Kong
We have a train to catch in about ten minutes
It's a 8:22 right now. Our train leaves at 8:29. So we are rushing to the train station right now.
We are now in Taichung. We are looking for a taxi to the airport now.
Taichung airport?
[Where?]
Airport? Okay. How much? [$600 is enough.] $600? Okay.
Okay, so we're in the taxi now on the way to the airport
That was just an hour and a half train ride, and we have a short haul flight
which is also about an hour and a half, I think. So, we should be there soon
Taxis in Taiwan are extremely cheap. This is an only $24... NT$600 drive to the airport
which I believe is about 50 minute drive, so pretty good deal
Made it to the airport. No problems
All right, we're through security at the Taichung Airport. This is an awesome airport.
We're playing Wii right now waiting for our flight
It's in about half an hour
We're playing some bowling on the Kinect
And Sabrina's winning
Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to Hong Kong. The local time now is 3:00
Okay, we're in Hong Kong now.
We just landed. We're catching the Express link into the city, Hong Kong Central
So I'm pretty excited to be in hong Kong
I'll tell you what I do know about Hong Kong is, the Chinese call it "xiang gang" [香港].
which means fragrant harbour, and also it is home to superstar Jackie Chan
My idol. And basically it has some of the best food in the entire world, so we're going to eat ourselves to death
All right, so we are in Hong Kong. We've made it out of the metro system and on the ground
I haven't really explained this yet, but Sabrina and I are only here for exactly 24 hours
Right now it's 4:30 and tomorrow our flight is at 6:10
So we have to go about an hour and a half early, which means we're going to be eating lots
So let's go
This is the Chungking Mansions behind us. Sabrina and I opted not to stay there because of several reasons
But we're staying just down the street. So we're heading to our hotel now to check in
So we're checked into the hotel
Let me give you a little tour
There it is
Welcome to our small hotel. We have three beds actually, even though we only wanted one
You don't book ahead of time in Hong Kong
it seems pretty hard to get a good deal. So we booked a place with three beds
Wasn't too bad, it's clean
There's water, there's Wi-Fi, air conditioning, everything we need.
So we're not spending much time here anyway
Actually I have no idea what the name of the hotel we're staying in is
When I booked it. It was called the Super Inn
but then she took us downstairs to the Super Hostel Limited
you can see there, but now I'm looking at the...
pillowcases and they say Happy Hostel.
Umm, I'm not really sure.
We're heading it now and we're going to eat
Okay, so Sabrina and I are waiting at the Dim sum restaurant now. It's called One Dim Sum
It's a Michelin-starred restaurant
it's supposed to be some of the best in Hong Kong and...
Therefore probably the world. There's a bit of a line obviously, so we're waiting about 10 minutes
And we're running on a tight schedule because we have a cruise to catch at 8:30
Okay, so we're done at the dim sum restaurant
and we raced down to the water so we can catch a light show that happens every single night
The view is amazing. We had the food.
Now we're getting the view and we're waiting to go on our boat, which is here in just a few minutes.
Check this out
This is the boat we're going on right here
Okay, so we're done the cruise on Victoria Harbour
I would definitely recommend that to anyone coming to Hong Kong
And we're going to head to the Temple Street Night Market now
What did you think?
That was the most amazing thing ever
I don't think I elaborated on how much we really ate at that dim sum restaurant earlier on
We spent at least $30 and each dish was only about three or four dollars
it was all amazing and I want to go back as soon as possible
Yeah
One?
It's a white guy
Yeah, this one is freshly-made
Chef... [he] has been filming you throughout
[Even a Ferrari can't compare...]
I'm really clumsy. Okay, so we just walked through the Temple Night Market
They didn't really like you filming there, so we didn't film too much
We made a couple purchases. I made a total impulse buy and bought a chessboard
Didn't even really look at it first, but I bought it because I thought it was pretty cool
We're just going to try to catch a cab home now, and call it a night
Okay, so that wraps up our first day here in Hong Kong
Definitely the cruise was the highlight of the day today. That was so much fun
Our first thoughts here on Hong Kong are that the people are not so friendly as in Taiwan or Taipei
But it is an extremely cool city
a little intimidating but you get used to it. It's really busy
So far, everything's gone really well and we are extremely excited for tomorrow
So, thank you for watching. I'm going to end the vlog now. Bye bye
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