CallieKaylee goes to ...: Hong Kong

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So... It's been forever since I have updated my blog. Or visited it. Seriously it has been almost a year. Sorry my dear bloggie you knew how busy I was right.. I can't really commit to updating here so often coz of the piling up work in college. SOPHOMORE YEAR IS NO JOKE MAN! Maybe just in Hong Kong yikes.

It's only been three weeks since the start of the new semester and I'm choking up with stuff. From assignments, choosing what society to join, applying for stuff to even worrying about securing an internship for the coming summer (what? this summer hasn't even ended). This explains why I almost *cough blood* when I heard this new freshmen telling me that he thinks the academic environment here isn't really strong.

When I'm handling with the difficult assignments,

How I wish

Btw we had much more Malaysian juniors coming into HKU this year compared to our miserable numbers last year. But sigh.. only one moved into my residential hall. New roomie is fine, our level of cleanliness/messiness is about the same so it is quite good. NOTHING COMPARED TO MY EX ROOMMATE.

Events of the month:

Bel's bday dinner @Jamie's Italian

The food is mediocre. Bland and the pasta wasn't al dente.

Registration team for mid autumn night!

That's all for this time.

Not gonna make any promise on blogging.

As you would have figured out by reading the title, Cafe Corridor is hidden, tucked in a narrow corridor right opposite to Time Square, Causeway Bay. I had a bad time searching for it, maybe walking pass it 3 times without noticing.

As usual, a cup of Flat White

French toast with a twist. Instead of the usual squarish thick bread, they serve it with baguette I suppose. And drizzle it with generous amount of honey.

In this confined space, the walls are decorated with instax, polariods, scribbles and doodles.

In short, this place is perfect for a caffeine fix session but a large group is not recommended since the place is small and always packed.

Life would be so good if I have more time for cafe hopping.

And if it isn't that pricey.

Till then ♥

Finally found the time and a lovely girl which shares the same interest as me. Scouting for food and traveling! ^.^ Coincidentally wore skirts together gether and suffered so much with one hand holding onto the skirt and the other hand busy googling the route on phone. #lifeofagirl

Our initial plan was to have brunch at The Brunch Club, but ended up in Classified, the Sheung Wan branch. It was drizzling so we couldn't get the outdoor seats and enjoy the breeze.

The ambiance here gives a little of the outside-of-Asia kinda feel. Weekends like that are wonderful.

Classified egg Benedict with Serrano ham and hollandaise

The eggs ben is just ordinary, nothing to rave about. I would prefer the English muffin to be slightly thicker.

Toasted bagel with Salmon and cream cheese

It's kinda difficult to find a day where both of us are free together, so we can't waste anytime. Off we went to IFC for some grocery shopping and desserts. And now City Super has become one of my favorite supermarket.

Caprice

Dark chocolate with Passion fruit cremeux in between

Lemon Tart

The lemon tart is lovely, but the only downside of Petite Amanda is their dessert spoon. A good dessert place can't simply use plastic spoons, especially when enjoying a tart. The skin is more towards the hard type, so it isn't easy at all as we couldn't exert much force onto a plastic spoon. Hopefully they will change it soon!

Petite & Pretty desserts

Mission to look for good food.

To be continued....

I know it's November already but it's only now that I have time to blog about my first theme park visit during Halloween. So allow me to tell about my visit to Ocean Park and I think everyone should totally visit theme parks during the special festivals!

Reach there by 10!

Got our promo tix from the Student Union which includes a meal.

Let the Halloween Fest begin!

Scary but cute decorations everywhere. Only during October

It's the kiddy me :P

Basically what's the best route to follow in Ocean Park? I wouldn't say ours was the best but we made it to almost all the rides except for Mine Train and Raging River in Adventure Land. Coz one was closed and we were too hungry to queue 1.5 hours for the Raging river.

So... we hop onto the cable car to get to the other side as soon as we got into the theme park. Incase u didn't know, I am a coward. 360 degrees turn or free fall sorta things are absolutely a big no-no for me. Unless it's an accident, like how I can never forget my experience in Tower of Terror of DisneySea!

However, I was forced to ride on The Flash and also a triple 360 degrees roller coaster wth. But it was thrilling! I wouldn't dare to go for a second time so I'm very glad I actually had the guts once with the push from my friends lol

Lunch-y snack: Roast Chicken Thigh

Totally a theme park food but sad thing is there's no churros :(

Some rest before we start exploring the Halloween specials which only commence at 1 pm

The highlight of the Halloween Fest would be those haunted houses with different themes and intensity of scariness and some mini games conducted by the well-dressed staff. Those haunted houses are pretty scary, I can never forget the Chamber of Mirror and the pitch black room where someone whispered right beside my ear *yikes*

Another attraction in Ocean Park is their Dolphin show. I enjoyed the whole show so much and really wanna to work there and train the dolphins. They are just ridiculously cute!

By the colorful fountain! My hair's in a mess >.<

And.... my dinner set

Potential #ootd shoot got photobombed!

Surprisingly I'm feeling quite free this week.

Shall update as much as I can!

If you are one big French crepes fan like me, La Creperie is definitely a place you should visit when you are in Hong Kong or Shanghai or Ho Chi Minh. The one that I've visited is in Wan Chai. I would recommend you to go for their set lunch or afternoon tea as the original price is quite steep.

Remember to add on HKD20 to have a 'bowl' of Brittany's famous Apple Cider

I really love it!

It is never too full to have both savoury crepe known as 'galette' and the sweet crepe. But I had to admit I'm more of a galette person as I love the crispy-brown-buckwheat skin with all the delicious fillings. The set comes with a crepe and coffee/tea, so we got ourselves two different flavour.

I was in the mood of salmon!

Le Piano - Salmon and Spinach cooked in cream, a beautiful egg and some greens by the side

salmon and spinach cooked in cream as its filling

Burst the egg and fish in!

All time favorite English Breakfast

The dessert crepe I had was quite special coz it's actually cooked apple with some kind of alcohol as the topping. I couldn't recall the name of it but the flame on it is just too cool lol...