Okay, so this is our first snack of the day. Apparently there's ten
like local traditional snacks in this area
This is a tofu like a silky soft tofu. And this is sugar. What do you guys think?
Good morning, everybody. You guys keep walk out, I will catch up
We're at the famous Big Buddha here in lantau island
Hong kong my best friend Alyssa and husband been came to visit us here in Hong Kong
So this week is going to be full of a mixture of touristy things and local things
We want to give them the best of local
So I feel like if you're travelling to Hong Kong is gonna be a good vlog to watch
There's this is gonna be a good vlog watch to get some ideas of some things to do
some things that are on the guidebooks and may be off so they came on
Saturday night we've done a couple things first, but this is our first leg thing of temples and more traditional stuff
We just found these hats
It's a beautiful day
It's not the end it's the journey yeah
Guys are trying to get to the Buddha. I just keep stopping to take photos and buy things
This brings back memories, eh yeah here we are seven years later exact same spot, but we both have husbands
Liked it so they put a ring on
Keep you safe and keep you out of those devil thing, evil. Thank you. Keep evil away.
so its kinda of like the eye
Don't use it, if it's broken just throw it away because it's something bad happens
then break that
My dad likes to wear those beans
so Tom wanted to buy him one from here
I mean that's kind of a cool idea to collect some from all over the world and stuff different meanings behind them
So just next to this main temple here you can get vegan or vegetarian Buddhist food
And vegetarian dim sum
a ton of wild cows. I don't know if they're really wild they're tagged
But there's a ton around here. Just walking around when you drive up here. You see them
just walking on the streets and hanging out just
Hang out here. It's another one there. They just freely walk around no one's controlling them
Just saw the giant Buddha, we saw the temple back there
And now we are heading to there's like this little shopping street full of little shops and snacks and we're gonna see what we can
Find there before heading to the cable car
One good thing I noticed about this area is they don't work you off like at most tourist places?
Especially in Canada like a theme park or something touristy
They would charge you a ton of money for everything
But the ice cream we had was about a dollar you had for like three four dollars
so yeah, everything's like priced really well and fairly Oh
Rough start and open on the rough start
He's highly considering start do it he's analyzing the situation
If you go straight or diagonal
And
there's even signs
Warning you not to do this. Very dangerous. Very dangerous.
He must critically analysed the exact path and timing in order to get through. Oh
Is he backing out?
There, is he backing out Oh
10 out of 10 everyone
Fans are going wild. I'm pretty sure this is his wife. any comments? Oh
That was
Such a nice day. So good highly recommend this place
I haven't been here since I went last time with Alyssa seven years ago, but
yeah, it's like
it's a lot to see a lot to eat a lot to do
and you can spend the whole day here
So we are
all sweaty I am so sorry
But we're back in the car we're gonna head to a supermarket right now and pick up some groceries for a barbecue tonight
we're just gonna hang at home
Karam on the grill
toms on the wine Alyssa's on the dancing
I've made two styles. My family likes it really crispy
And this was less so I don't know what you guys prefer today this morning something pretty exciting is happening
So too-faced is opening up here in Hong Kong finally
Finally finally. I'm so excited for that and they reached out to me and they wanted to come by and bring me a surprise
They said they couldn't just send it to me in the mail they need to be here
So I'm very curious what that's gonna be all about. Okay, what do you think? They're gonna
do
I can't figure out anything at all
Know it's going well. I think that they're
Going to bring something
large that won't fit in the mail Oh yeah true and
Maybe they want you to wear like a mascot?
No
Cuz I originally I thought they're going to bring someone to you and then to meet you but like I don't know
Anyone, that would come by like surprise
We are just making our way up the peak now
it is so interesting
It's so concentrated here, but then there's also so much green
so it's like a circle of green around and then all buildings in the center and then
The lake is like it's like a tootsie roll
Like the center the cheese on it
We always go back there how many times we've been there we always like going back there's a nice little restaurant there
We like to have brunch with Rosie sometimes, you can hike around there. The view is really really nice as you saw
It's definitely a must do when you come to Hongkong it that can be the number one tourist spot in hk
Now we are still in TST and there's like a promenade along the
Harbor here and it was newly renovated. It was closed for a while and just opened like two or three weeks ago
I want to say so I haven't even seen the newly renovated one
I'm here again for the first time just like the restaurant just now and that restaurant was really really good by the way we loved
everything
so
yeah, you're just a little sleepy too much food got another coffee and
We're very full. So we're gonna take a walk
Look at the lights by the harbour side, there is some statue. There's a Bruce Lee and
It's been really nice night walk. But there's a lot of people
We're currently at a ten thousand Buddha's monastery and we're walking up
It's just a lot of stairs a lot of Golden Buddha inside us all the way up the mountain
one other things you need to do when you come to Hong Kong is get foot massage and
My favorite place to do that here you can go anywhere
There's there's all kinds of different price range places
And one of my favorite though is 10 feet tall because they have really nice clean rooms
they have a good selection of English magazines and Chinese and
At their central location, you're going to order Froyo and smoothies those up, you can't here but they do have like some candy and
and different teas and stuff we're gonna have dinner after
we are going there
Chinese foot massages are really nice because your your foot is connected to so many areas in your body
we've been doing a ton of walking and it's just gonna make us feel like moving so
I'll get my stuff
Because you never liked English magazines are so expensive if yours are imported and they're always like late I always like
Now we're at our last stop of the day
Our favorite dessert place Lotus Garden is literally just down the street from Nante this pudding
baked sago lotus seed pudding and
This one sesame dumpling soup
It's just Alyssa and I today, we're out shopping in Causeway Bay we're going to there's going to be a mix of like
expensive malls and
Inexpensive malls, so we're going to go to some of the cheaper
We're gonna go to a cheaper mall cheaper
Like I'm gonna say is not a market but a relatively inexpensive mall right now called island beverly (?)
I'm gonna see soon as I get out here so love for right? Oh
This is totally different
It's always Island Beverly when you're in Hong Kong
If you look upstairs like up
You'll find a lot of these smaller malls that are just a whole bunch of boutique shop
A lot of the clothes are from Korea actually
You look like my wedding shoes, they are roger vivian, not vivier
Those are so cute. green
look who join us, we are having happy hour drinks and nachos and i got a coffee
so Alyssa meet Jessica 7 years ago when she came here, along with some of my other friends
And we have a really view
We're going here hysan place
you know what funny last time I was here I swear to god it was it was avenger
Really? I look back to my picture
I am taking a photo in front of them nice
pretty sure first avengers movie, really? I need a photo check on that cut to -
Good morning guys. We're in central now. It's Alyssa, cameron last day
the last thing that we do, sorry its really loud here
We're eating the last foods that they want to eat first
We're stopping by a really famous an egg tart place here in central. Then we're gonna head to Tai kwun, which is an old prison
police living quarters and then we are
gonna go to man mo temple and cat street which is a street that sells into
Souvenirs and stuff and we're gonna finish it off at the night market and go to a Tai Pai dong is an outdoor restaurant
And today is baby yellow and blue day this place is famous for their milk tea
Which is a really popular drink here in Hong Kong, but how they became famous was. Oh the lines really long
Was it worth it. Yeah
Crazy long wow it continues over there
so they are really famous because they use a penny holes to filter the tea so its really fine
but i never try it
They went for a hot one
It's really good it's smoother so they're not as strong
its egg, egg yolk
try milk tea, siu mai
curry fishball?
we tried this, the tea egg and stinky tofu
This is Tom's favorite we are at Tai kwun right now
an old police station
prison cell
home for the
lease and their wives and families and
Courthouse so it's huge and they just transformed it into a Heritage Center slash Art Center like their performances
yeah, there's a lot of
Yeah different art different movies
Boutique shops cafes through the queue. The architecture is so nice
This is the prison cells
You
get to right your homework inside
Do you know multiplying Oh the multiple chart? Oh, yeah, we had those too
And you learned English yeah
This symbol means Double Happiness, so you give it to couples like forever love happy forever for two people
So usually during the wedding you see the symbol everywhere and people give gifts
Oh, this is for academics
or education and stuff
Right across the street from the temple over there is a little alleyway called Pat Street
And there's a lot of souvenirs and antiques there
we are on the ferry now, all the way to TST
ferry is something you have to do here, and it cost like 20, 30 cents
Over at temple street night market in between Jordan and yau ma tai, so there's this lines of people selling things snacks
There's a lot of fortune tellers and then a lot of outdoor tai pai dong where you can sit and eat
So we're gonna walk around here for a bit and then we're gonna grab dinner
I had so much fun with them this week and I really like seeing people discover new things
I actually discovered a lot of new things and tried some new foods
I think my favorite day was the Big Buddha day exploring that area and trying some new foods. There was really nice and
Walking along the harbor front and TST at night. It's also really nice
So if you live here
I'd love to know if you have any other recommendations that I missed in this video
also if you're more interested in Hong Kong food, I have a ton of episodes on just food, especially if you have a
Particular diet like you're vegan or something. There's an episode on that. So be sure to check it out
You're not from here, or you haven't been here then come visit us you will love it
Thank you so much for watching and I'll see you in my next video