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Day 4 Hong Kong/Shen Zhen 14th March 2009

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Last minute shopping at Fa Yuen Street and Ladies Market-->MTR to ShenZhen-->Arrived at ShenZhen-->Dinner at Steamboat Buffet-->Massage in ShenZhen-->Late Night Shopping in ShenZhen-->China Man in Hotel

Fiona flown back to Singapore in the morning as she is starting her SIP soon. Thus our group were reduced to 12 people. I am sad that we will be leaving for Hong Kong in the afternoon but excited at what Shen Zhen has to offer.

Today, I woke up quite late at 10am plus. As YeSheng and QiJun send Fiona off to the airport, Chee Hiang still want to continue to sleep, while the rest of the people dunno go where shop already, I was left alone to settle my own breakfast. Thus, I went back to the place where I missed it's french toast which is just opposite our hostel.

Familiar right?

After that at around 12pm, YeSheng and QiJun were back from sending Fiona off. As there are still some time, I decided to go to the wrong side of Fa Yuen Street to search for something which my aunt ask me to buy with the accompany of YeSheng. This time round, we went to the correct side of Fa Yuen Street where they sell alot of sports wear. Haiz. When I want to go to the correct side, my leg bring me to the wrong side. When I want to go to the wrong side, my leg bring me to the correct side. Leg ar leg. What do you want??

Never mind. It was great to experience another part of Hong Kong. I didn't found the stuff that I eventually wanted to buy but YeSheng bought a pair of branded shoes from a London brand which is much more familiar in Hong Kong as he has discount card. While on our way back, we went for a really very last minute shopping at Ladies Market to search for my stuff. We walk real damn fast browsing through the shop and stalls and eventually, I bought something.

Today is a nice weather

Fa Yuen Street

We went back to our hostel and it was past 1pm already and meet up the rest before proceeding to the MTR station for our ride to Shen Zhen

While on our way to the MTR station, we saw HuiSan and her friend who was searching for Dragon Hostel. So qiao(coincidence) right?

Today wasn't a good day to take MTR as there are alot of incident happen

For example, their ticket machine have notes limit. They can only accept 1 piece of HK$10 and 1 piece of HK$20 and the rest must be in coins. Tell me how can we buy a ticket where our ride to Shen Zhen will cost us HK$38? We have to find so much combination of notes for 12 people eh. Shit machine lousy invention. Was suppose to make human life easier but it makes our life difficult

Next, some of them can't pass through the gate due to some reason and they have to go to the customer service counter to request for help

Also, if you are taking a luggage taking MTR, you can only reach the platform by taking the lift as you are not allowed to carry heavy stuff while on the escalator. So most of us have to use the lift to transport us to the platform which is quite troublesome.

Finally, we are on the platform for our ride to ShenZhen

Before reaching Shen Zhen, we have to transfer to another train. This was suppose to be an MTR but it looks like a railway train eh. And i'm quite excited because this is not underground!! So I can see the views of Hong Kong

Is it SARs period?

In the cabin

Wa. This di di look so cute

Views from the train

Tai Yuen Station

Railway track

Other views from the cabin

While on our way to Shen Zhen, some of them were resting

Resting with the tiger

Resting with her hand

Finally we reached Lo Wu station! We were late as we were suppose to meet our tour guide at 3pm but we just reached there at around 310pm.

A long walk to the custom

This is the custom

After clearing the custom, we proceed to find our tour guide

Inside the building

Walking out

See this stairs? I think they built in in a way that there are some Feng Shui significance to it as most of China stairs are built in a way where there is a flat way in the centre dividing the stairs. Similiar to those found in the imperial palace in China.

Where is our tour guide?

Here it is!

Chee Hiang: Yes finally we found our tour guide!"

Our van that will bring us to our hotel-Feng Shun Hotel

In the van

This is what ShenZhen looks like

The streets of ShenZhen

Chee Hiang ah pek with Ah Pek

Finally, we reached Feng Shun Hotel. There is a convenient stall beside our hotel!! Yea.

This is our hotel lobby

Collecting money to pay for our room and tour guide

Allocating rooms

Due to chinese custom, we have to knock on the door 3 times and say "sorry to disturb you for a few days" before going into our room so as to respect what should be respected

Ta daa!! This is our room. A very big different from Dragon Hostel right? Spacious and more comfortable

The toilet

Look at the price of the drinks in the refrigerator. Damn cheap right? A can of coke cost around S$0.80 only and the noodle cost only around S$1

The views from my room

After settling down, we proceed to ShenZhen shopping district which is around 15mins walk away from our hotel. One thing is, it is unsafe to walk alone in ShenZhen as it is quite dangerous. Even our tour guide warn us about it

While walking to the shopping district

Another photo

While walking, we saw an outdoor barber shop. Very special as it is rarely seen in Singapore

The HDB of ShenZhen

Weee Woo Wee! A slow walk to our destination

What does WC means?

A bicycle repair shop on the roadside

A roadside pineapple fruit stall. It is not advisable to buy food from the roadside stall as it is really unhygenic

Some provision shop

Finally, we reached the shopping district

Crossing the Yuen Yang(couple) bridge to find foodie. We saw an advertisement from outside a mall about a steamboat buffet and we decided to go see see

On the escalator to the steamboat restaurant

The price of the steamboat was relatively cheap but the food really cannot make it. The environment around there also wasn't that good.

While walking in, the floor was rather slippery and sticky and while we were lead to our table, I walk past kitchen and it really make me lose my appetite. The floor was very black and it was rather messy. I could also see prawn heads and other stuff on the floor of the kitchen. To think that our food is process in the kitchen and also thinking that our food may be chop and cut on the floor, who won't lose appetite right?

Look nice but not

This pepsi was damn cheap. I tihnk it cost around S$0.30 only. But I didn't dare to drink it as it reminds me of an email where the pictures show that they reuse the pepsi bottle and pour other similiar drink into it...

All forcing ourselves to finish the food or else will kena fine. I didn't eat much as I don't really feel safe about the food.

After dinner, we went to a massage parlour which is opposite of the mall for some massaging. Wah. The lady boss was very happy as I think she long time don't have so many customers already. I even saw one of the staff shaking hand with her congratulating her. Is business really that bad? The massage was quite cheap. I tihnk it is around S$6(excluding tip) if i'm not wrong.

Getting ready for the massage

Before that, you have to soak your leg into a pail of water with some powder that they put in. The water will turn jellyish after sometime

Woot~ This was the person who help me massage. Chee Hiang was very jealous of me=D

All enjoying

YeSheng so shiok face. Don't know why he kena touch by guys still so happy

Of course I am happy =D

We forgot about the undelicious dinner and enjoyed our time in the massage parlour

Before leaving the place, the girls want to take photo with handsome guy first as they don't want any regret

It was around 10pm but we heard from the staff that there are still some places good to shop and the girls wanted to go there. Thus we proceed for late night shopping

The shopping street and malls. Still with alot of people even thought it was already 10pm. We decided to split up to shop on our own before meeting back at 11pm.

This is not Singapore, so you can just throw your rubbish anywhere you want

If you were to shop in ShenZhen, you will really have to be careful about your belonging as the girls did witness a pickpocket. There was this guy who banged onto a cacuasian and the impact was so great that the caucasian falls down and the guy quickly run away. The cacuasian stands up and realise that his wallet has been stolen. And due to this reason, we met up quickly after that to proceed back to our hotel as it is very unsafe to stay out so late in Shen Zhen.

While on our way back to hotel, while the full moon hangs in the sky and the wolf howling, Chee Hiang turned into Lester!

After we reached our hotel, it was around 1130pm and we decided to meet up to play China man after we bathed with the Bailey's that Dinesh bought from Singapore duty free shop.

We have so much laughter while playing Texas poker

It was already 1plus where we decided to rest to prepare ourself for tomorrow activities!

It was a scary Day 4

Cheers~

Ricky

Ricky Peh