the jellyfish is back! Posting about HK trip day 2! ^^

- Breakfast in the hotel
- Ocean park trip!
- Night at mosque street!

Day 2 is my favourite day for the entire trip, since it really involves fun that involves me and is really a part of HK. Haha. ^^

So it is another bright and beautiful day near Royal Park Hotel, and my whole family woke up at around 8am for the hotel's breakfast. The place is at 2+2 cafe? At first, i thought it would be some Random Dim Sum (^^) or some chinese food, but surprisingly it ended up to be a western breakfast, with trace amount of NaOH, I mean chinese food.

The food is generally not bad, with special features such as pancake machines and a counter where you can order diff kinds of eggs with random toppings! ^^

Ate loads of waffles, they tasted really nice. ^^

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- Ocean park trip!

The highlight of the day! ^^

After breakfast, all 5 of us headed off to Ocean Park in a taxi, and got caught in a traffic jam. Aw. =(

The taxi ride cost about HK$157.5!!! omg lol!

Surprisingly Ocean Park was not a water-theme park like Wild wild wet, but more of a fun-theme park like Escape Theme Park. Quite a lot of ppl on that day though, probably is because is a friday and therefore there would be field trips! ^^

Ocean Park is divided into the animals section and the fun and games section, with a cable car of tram servicing between the 2 stations. We went to a few sections, namely the entrance (duh), the asian animals exhibitions, and took a view of the fun and games section, didn't really try the theme rides though.

The ballons were quite fascinating, and there were a few performers with very big eggy costumes performing some tricks and stunts. Fascinating! ^^ Somehow there were a lot of gift shops in Ocean Park, but all with rather different themes.

Section 1 - Animals section.

To be precise, Asian animals section. The animals consisted of alligators, crocodiles, seals, racoons and pandas.

There is a very dark enclosure for pandas, and somehow the panda was rather GL, since it only walked one round and everybody was seeing it sleeping through the TV. The enclosure was quite cool though, a very cooling temperature, dark, and a greeny scenery for the pandas to live in. ^^

Another enclosure was very bright, but yet MORE COOLING than the previous one. I bet a lot of money was used to cool the place, since it was really huge! The enclosure contained more pandas, along with alligators and racoons. Just imagine the Singapore Zoo's snake / bird boardwalk, where u can sort of experience the 'natural' habitat of the snakes, except that this time the boardwalk has a cooling device.

The alligators sure can sleep under the sun, while the racoons played under the bridge. =P Of course, there was another large spot for pandas. The pandas were considerably more active than the previous ones, and some even played together. Aw so cute. ^^

After the whole enclosure, we went out and there was a whiteboard to spam wadever random rubbish u want! Followed by another panda gift shop, and a panda cafe restaurant! (Photos are in other posts) ^^

After the panda exhibition, we went to see some antique chinese decorations, quite nice, but nothing significant at this point.

Watched the seal show before lunch! An excellent show, although the language being spoken was in Cantonese, it was still rather enjoyable to see the seals doing stuns and playing with the small kids! ^^

Section 2 - Fun and games section!

We took a monorail to the top of Ocean Park! The monorail ride itself was ok, but it has an underwater theme. The monorail is pictured as a submarine travelling through the ocean, but got stuck due to creatures knocking the glass wall, and in the end enjoy the beautiful scenery of the ocean. ^^ A short but free ride, interesting!

The fun and games section can be considered quite large, consisting of many standard rides such as roller coaster, teacups, skytower, etc... Did not play any of these, since there were a huge number of people waiting for the rides.

We headed to the cafeteria and gift shop for a break. I suppose that is one of the biggest gift shops of Ocean Park, since it consists of many items sold in various smaller gifts shops. Bought a few dolphins, panda, over there. For a short snack, we bought some fries and a coke-floats, Normal taste, nothing much interesting.

After lunch, we walked around for a bit, then went to watch the dolphin show. Woah to the number of people over there. The show starts at 1400 hours, yet at 1320 hours it was filled with people already, in the end had to stand and watch the show. This show is supposed to be the highlight of Ocean Park, hmm... I found it a bit boring though, a pity didn't take a video of the show.

It was about 1445 hours when the show ended, so we decided to leave the place, but halfway, we saw a jellyfish exhibition!!! ^^ For once, i saw my brothers in Ocean park, lol! =D

A lot of ppl who went for the show also went to the jellyfish exhibition, loads of various types of jellyfish were over there, just walked through the darkness of the exhibition, with dazzling colours all over the place. The jellyfish gift shop is rather small though! Drank a random green float with longans, pineapples and other tropical fruit cocktail while walking... Refreshing! ^^

Went back to the hotel after the Ocean Park trip. The entrance was FLOODED with people, wished those ppl good luck while waiting for their turn to enter. ^^

This concludes the end of the Ocean Park Trip!

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- Night at mosque street!

First impression: Mosque street is just like Women's street!

The structure is almost the same, the things sold are almost the same. The only difference i noticed was that the things sold in Mosque Street was more appealing towards guys compared to Women's street.

For dinner, we went to a 'ban mian' stall and ate. Apparently the stall is really famous for its spiciness, but the irony is that we didn't order anything spicy, but rather just the noodles itself.

I shared with my parents a bowl of plain soup chicken noodles, cos we thought just eat a very small portion each, thereafter can enjoy more delicacies. ^^ In the end, the bowl was damn big. For those who ate JE ban mian before, the bowl is about 1.5 times the JE size. The noodles looked very plain, but surprisingly the noodles tasted EXTREMELY nice, even nicer than JE's. Price = approx SGD$4.

The shopping experience is the same as women's street, so i will be talking more about the food. The food is quite ok, i bought a coconut drink, which was seriously very thick with a strong milk flavour. The uncle was a bit blur though, mixing up a lot of orders, haha. I think he thought mine was a special order, and therefore make the drink very concentrated.

Packet some roast meat, siew mai, and prawn dumplings to go back to the hotel and enjoy. The Dim Sum stall at the roadside was somehow quite cosy, and the paos they had were really big! Smells nice also, mmm. ^^

The siew mai were quite ok, the prawn dumplings were great!!!!!!! Up till today haven't found one nicer than that one. The roast pork were ok, nt much difference with the SG ones.

After the meal, watched Tom and Jerry for a while again, and then went to sleep! That concludes day 2 for the HK trip! ^^

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Day 1 post: above
Day 3 post: Not done!
Day 4 post: Not done!

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