HK Day 9 Wan Chai

Tues 4th October, Day 9

Because we like to do things at the last hour, Ant and I scheduled our Hunt for the Nine Wall Dragon for our last day in HK. After some online resarch that
morning, we found some information that said it was in Wan Chai. We called concierge to check and was asked whether it was a tourist attraction or a restaurant. After I confirmed restaurant, concierge conferred with his fellow concierges and regretfully told me no one had heard of this wall.

After a congee breakfast, we want to Wan Chai nonetheless. The search was futile; there was some construction works going on in the area where we thought the Nine Wall Dragon to be. It was quite disappointing.

But funnily enough, we took a different path back to the Wan Chai train station and came upon...the Wan Chai Computer Centre that we had visited Typhoon Nesat forced all the shops to close! Ant had a good time browsing, while I just wanted to have a pee.
Afterwards, we went next door to Maccas to have a cup of tea and sweet potato pie.  Apple pie for Ant.

Then we caught the train back to Yau Ma Tei and from there went to the Ladies Market.  By now I was well and truly bored of seeing the same stalls over and over but Ant was still excitedly dashing around looking for his gadget stuff.  My only silver lining at Ladies Market was the coconut juice stand I had become addicted to.

Each time we went to Ladies Market - which was practically every second day - I would buy a cup of chilled coconut juice from the stand.  It was a blended drink made from ice, a big piece of firm coconut flesh, evaporated milk and coconut cream.  Delicious!  It was hk$15 = au$2.

We wanted to go to Hot Chilli considering it was our last night and make the 8pm laser show at Tsim Sha Tsui promenade.  The laser show is put on by all the tall buildings in the area and is a big attraction. 

Ant preferred to eat at Ladies Market so we settled for Burger King which was nearby.  Technically I just wanted to use their toilet after the coconut drink.  The memory of what I saw in that toilet cubicle will haunt me forever.......a piece of stinky excrement on the floor infront of the toilet bowl.  It was the only cubicle in use and there was a queue.  I had no choice..............

I was so traumatised that I couldn't talk throughout our meal at Burger King.  I could eat, I just couldn't talk.

Because we had bought things, we took a short walk to the Hotel to drop them off. 

Then we hurried around the corner to the train station to catch the train to the promenade.  The ticket machine caused Ant some frustration because after he had waited in queue for ages, it stopped working when it was his turn.

We were buying single-trip tickets at the station machines because the money on our pre-paid Octopus card had run out that morning.  The minimum credit we could pre-load on it was hk$50.  We figured there was no point.  (I think we forgot we could get a full refund for the un-used credit from the Service Centre - one which was located at the airport too).

We made it to the promenade while the laser show was in progress.  The highlight of my night was not the show, but sitting on the Starbucks deck afterwards with gorgeous views of HK's sky scrapers enjoying a latte with my feet on Ant's lap and the ocean wind blowing my hair everywhere.