Tuesday, 14 July 2015

Trip to Hong Kong -Day 3

Mido Cafe, Temple Street

Mido cafe is the local style cafe which located on the temple street near Yau Ma Tei MTR station. They are one of the famous cafe around the neighbourhood 



The design of this cafe is a very typical Hong Kong "cha chan sat" (means local restaurant) that having the feel of 80's Hong Kong interior design and they have 2 floor for customer to dine in.

Ground Floor, Mido Cafe

more spacious in level 1, Mido Cafe

At here, they offer the various type of food such as noodles, toast, different kind of rice and their price are quite reasonable compared to the restaurant surrounding.

these are their favored signature dish

other menus for the food and the minimum spending here was HKD20

there is a lots more varieties choice of noodles and local cruisin for you to choose from.

and these are the food that we ordered
BBQ pork noodle

Macaroni with ham and tomatoes source.

french toast and coffee for our breakfast.


Tian Tan Buddha, Lantau Island

Tian Tan Buddha is a tourist hot spot that you must go when you visit Hong Kong. If you have your own free & easy trip in HK, is very easy to visit here by taking MTR to Tung Chung station then transit with the Cable car nearby or else you may take the bus from the bus station near Tung Chung station. It take you 25 mins for cable car and 45 mins if you take bus



cable car station but unfortunately the day we went the cable car is under maintenance, so we proceed to take bus to go up to the hill 

Bus number that bring you up to the Lantau Island hill - Tian Tan Buddha

Finally, here we are at the temple.

Before claiming up to the ladder, we decided to have some snack first

local roadside snack - curry fishball


Egg pancake cook with charcoal 


egg pancake

Is the time to claim up to the top of the temple.



we are consider very lucky on that day cause the whole morning the whole temple is full of fog when we reach and this big buddha only appear for few second when we reached the top.

after came down from the top, we go and have the most famous Tau Fu Fa. Why it is so famous? Because it made with yellow bean and the mountain water from Lantau Island. Due to the water here are so clean and full of the mineral, it make the Tau Fu Fa taste so sweet and silky smooth too.

There are 2 taste that you may try:
with ginger soup (if you like ginger taste) or 

you may had it with homemade sugar




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