Hol #2: Hong Kong

I am writing this post in Hong Kong but I am not on holiday this time around. What a difference a week makes! Was in HK with the girlies two weekends ago and it was a whirlwind trip man. I can't believe I managed to spend S$1.5k in 3/4 of a day. 

I have to admit that when the girls asked me to go HK, my first thought was "AGAIN?!". And I went only cos I missed their faces. Please see below:

Queens of 自拍

But on this trip, the girls managed to find new fun places to explore, eat and shop, besides our usual haunts at Tung Chung, H&M (yes, yes, Spore has a mega ginormous H&M but we must still make the trip to mecca right?), Horizon South Towers and SPACE (Prada outlet).

The most important discovery has to be COS (Collection of Style) - the upmarket sister of H&M. Sin Yee and I spent almost 1.5 hours in the two-storey shop trying not to go mad (Not Dawn's style and Sanny was broke after her S$1k cheongsam from Livia).   The boutique is grown-up, minimalist, classic and the stuff is uber well-made. Very European, very chic - the antithesis of H&M.

I have this!

The stuff is not cheap though- around S$150 for a dress at least. I bought 3 dresses from the shop, after striking off maybe 100 others that I really wanted but couldn't afford. Last we hear is that COS is slated to open in Shanghai sometime this year. Woo hoo! Cool winterwear. I hope the credit card's magnetic strip doesn't wear out.

Then they brought me to a couple of streets (Staunton & Hollywood) with many small cut-label boutiques. So many things to try and buy except we went on the day that we were departing so it was a crazy dash.  Here's one of the "Marc by Marc Jacobs" dress I bought. Wore it on my work trip this week. So pretty! (dress AND me)

Besides clothes, the street had indie boutiques that sold interesting things like furniture, vintage clothes and bags, decorative things etc.



Messing around in the furniture shop.

 

Watch out for the Cake Crusader

And as always, we make time for snaps!

Sanny's previous fav colour. Not anymore it seems?

It is important to mention that we bought most of the stuff post-stuffing our faces, so that means everything still fits. Ha ha... Take note of the places people, and DROOL:

1. Tim Ho Wan, the Dim Sum Specialists (so it says on their website, and we unanimously concur with a resounding BO LUO BAO!). It is Michelin-starred, 'nuff said.

2. Fuk Sing. If H&M is our fashion mecca in HK, then Fuk Sing is our dim sum place Mt Sinai. We have visited this place on every single trip to HK and we weren't gonna change anything in spite of Tim Ho Wan. And yes, we had another bunch of bo luo baos.



 3. Sin Hoi San. Have to explain ah?

 4.  Agnes B cafe. So French chic except we were in shorts, perspiry and in a total hurry.

Anyways, it was a very fulfilling 2 days. We have made another date with HK in Jan 2013 and there will be new places explored because the promise is not to have dim sum and mango desserts (but maybe we should go Tim Ho Wan. It is after all Michelin-starred righttttttt???).

Thanks girls again for the fun. See you in like 3 days!

Xoxo,

Tracy