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Citygate Outlets, Hong Kong

15 Aug 2008 in Travels, ^_^V by Enoch Lau | No comments

It looks like City­g­ate Out­lets is must-​​see destination.

City­g­ate Out­lets is a shop­ping centre at Tung Chung, on Hong Kong’s Lan­tau Island. Tung Chung is, in a rel­at­ive sense, far flung from the heart of Hong Kong, right next to the air­port, but as a “new town”, it has all the attrac­tions of Hong Kong (food, shop­ping, what else?) while being really clean and neatly designed. I remem­ber it fondly as the place where I was first acquain­ted with the diabetes-​​inducing phe­nomenon known as Aji Ichiban (although of course, there are other stores).

We went to the shop­ping centre in ques­tion last year, but quite a bit of it was still under con­struc­tion, and although I recall see­ing designer fash­ion there, the prices then didn’t quite appeal to me. But maybe it’s due to the sub­con­scious impact of see­ing markedly large Hong Kong dol­lar amounts (1 AUD is roughly 7 HKD); some­how, I con­vince myself a nice t-​​shirt is not worth HKD$100, but when I get home, I real­ise I can’t get any­thing nice for less than $20. Any­way, if the art­icle is right, it’s def­in­itely worth another visit – if only to get out of the hustle and bustle of the CBD and Kowloon.

And if the thought of going to an “out­let mall” brings up images of DFO in Home­bush, then you’re mis­taken – it’s as much a proper shop­ping centre as any other.

How to get there: Exit C from Tung Chung MTR Station

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More Aji Ichiban

03 Aug 2007 in ^_^V by Enoch Lau | No comments

Just as my stash of Aji Ichiban that I bought in Mel­bourne was just about gone…

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Yes, more! Sarah was kind enough to bring some back from HK for me… thank you so much~!

This time, I’m try­ing to make it last a little longer. Hon­estly, this stuff can’t be healthy at all >.<

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Melbourne day 3

20 Jul 2007 in Travels, ^_^V by Enoch Lau | 3 comments

I’m back in Sydney now – I’ll do a write up of what I think of Mel­bourne and the details of what we did with some pho­tos of the spoils soon, but I’ll just write what we did today just so I won’t for­get it.

We didn’t have a fire alarm go off this morn­ing, but we did have a prank phone call to wake us up. Break­fast was at a cafe next to the Vic­toria Mar­kets, and we had a look at the mar­kets fol­low­ing that – we got ourselves a couple of blocks of cheese… and saw some prodi­gious confectionery-​​making. We then pro­ceeded to the Mel­bourne Museum (again) to see what we missed yes­ter­day. This was fol­lowed by lunch at Chin­atown (again) – we were going to go to the Greek res­taur­ants on Lonsdale Street but they were rather pricey. Shop­ping took up the rest of the after­noon – AJI ICHIBAN (^_​^), Myer (which, like the rest of Mel­bourne, ran out of scarves), the Base­ment, this strange little antique shop, and a fancy sta­tion­ery shop. Frantic dashes between South­ern Cross sta­tion and the hotel ensued, the con­sequence of some slight mis­com­mu­nic­a­tion, and then the flight home was unevent­ful bar my humi­li­at­ing defeat in Scategories.

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