Three Different definitions for 'Afternoon Tea' in Hong Kong

'Afternoon tea' has three different meanings in Hong Kong

In the dining capital, Hong Kong, there are THREE different meanings for the 'afternoon tea'......

-Discounted foods at the DIM SUM RESTAURANTS

After lunch time, for attracting more customers, the DIM SUM RESTAURANTS have the 'afternoon tea time'.  

Mostly during 2:00PM-4:00PM, customers can enjoy the same but largely discounted dim sum.

-Local style afternoon tea sets in the TEA CAFES

Hong Kong citizens enjoy their tea break at about 3:15PM.  

For serving the customers, Hong Kong's TEA CAFES (Cha Chan Tan茶餐廳) have different types of cheap but tasty afternoon tea sets.  

From mostly 2:00PM - 6:00PM, you just need to pay about 25 - 40 HKD to enjoy the tasty toast plus tea, dumplings noodle plus coffee etc.

-English high tea at the HOTELS

At the HOTELS, afternoon tea means the traditional and elegant English high tea.  

Although Hong Kong has reunited with China, you can still enjoy the very good English high tea at the famous Peninsula Hotel.

The queue there is always long. So please go earlier or book in advance!

Apart from Chinese cultural elements, the easy Kowloon city tour includes the local style tea break.

YOU may choose to have dim sum or French Toast.

For tour details, please browse the tour webpage.

YOU may contact Frank the tour guide for private tour planning. 

Four Major Fishing Villages in Hong Kong

Hong Kong's four major fishing villages

Apart from the skyscrapers, Hong Kong still has four major fishing villages...

-Aberdeen

Aberdeen is travelers' famous must-go point. 

Travelers can take sampan to see the fishermen, Jumbo Floating Restaurant and the most densely populated Island in the World, Ap Lei Chau.

For the details of the easy Hong Kong highlights tour with the included sampan ride at Aberdeen, please browse the tour webpage. 

-Shau Kei Wan

Fishermen supply seafood to the nearby wet market. 

The nice shopkeepers are willing to pose for you to take the photos. 

You can taste the famous fish ball noodle at the local tea cafes.

During the easy full day tour, you get the chance to visit Shau Kei Wan Food Market. For details, please browse the tour webpage.

-Tai O                                                               

After saying hello to the Big Buddha, travelers can go to Tai O. 

Apart from visiting the dried seafood market and tasting the local snacks, travelers may take the boat ride to see the 'Venice in the East', which has lots of stilt-houses.

During the easy Big Buddha and Tai O afternoon private tour, you can see the beautiful sunset at Tai O.

For details, please browse the tour webpage.

-Cheung Chau

The car-free island is famous for its 'Bun Festival'. 

You can ride bicycle to go to the Tung Wan Beach to enjoy sea view. 

You can walk to the God of Warrior Temple in March to see the Sakura. 

After a lot of exercise, you may have a good seafood dinner at the water front near the ferry pier.

For more details, please contact Frank the tour guide.

TO LOVERS AND HONEYMOONERS: THE FIVE ROMANTIC THINGS TO DO IN HONG KONG

Romantic things to do in Hong Kong for lovers and honeymooners

This passage shows lovers and honeymooners the five romantic things to do in Hong Kong.

(1) Hong Kong Observation Wheel

After taking the Star Ferry to Central, lovers and honeymooners can see the newest romantic sightseeing point in Hong Kong, the Hong Kong Observation Wheel. 

During the 20-min ride, you can enjoy the panorama of Hong Kong.  It should be a good place for the boyfriends to propose!

(2) Double-decker tram (DING DING) ride

After the 'Hong Kong Eye', lovers and honeymooners can take the tram ride.  

The interesting tram gets its nickname due to its horn, which has a 'ding ding' sound.  

Taking the tram ride is romantic and cheap.  

As the fare is only 2.3 HKD per person, lovers and honeymooners can save more money for the grand wedding party or their baby's education fund!

(3) North Point - Hung Hom Ferry ride

The Ding Ding brings the lovers and honeymooners to North Point.  

They can take the ferry ride at the North Point Ferry Pier to go to Kowloon's Hung Hom.  

You may see the cruises, which berth at the Kai Tak Cruise Terminal and look like the legendary TITANIC, just add the romantic elements of the ferry ride.

(4) Hong Kong's TITANIC - Whampoa (AEON Department Store)

Next to the Hung Hom Pier, lovers and honeymooners can see Hong Kong's TITANIC on the land, Whampoa, which is aship-like department store, AEON.  

You cannot play 'YOU JUMP, I JUMP' at the bow.  But they can play 'YOU EAT, I EAT' at the restaurants and supermarket inside the 'passenger cabin'!

(5) Hung Hum Promenade

At last, lovers and honeymooners can have a romantic walk to go to Tsim Sha Tsui during sunset!

If YOU will have YOUR honeymoon holiday in Hong Kong and Macau, YOU may contact Frank the tour guide for private tour planning.

YOU may also browse different easy private tour options. 

Seven Things Hong Kong Chinese people do before and during the Chinese New Year

Seven things to do for Hong Kong Chinese before and during Chinese New Year

The Chinese New Year is the most important festival for the Hong Kong Chinese people. 

There are seven things to do totally! 

As a traveler, you can join the celebration!

1.Visit Lunar New Year Fair

After visiting Lunar New Year Fair before the coming of the new year, people believe they can be luckier in the new year.

In the past, people bought flowers. 

Now people buy lots of different souvenirs to celebrate. In 2015, 60% of stalls in the Victoria Park, which has the biggest fair in Hong Kong, sell souvenirs.

2.Say Hello to the God

It is important to say hello to the gods and make the wishes at the beginning of the new year. 

So lots of people go to different temples. 

People also believe that if he/she can be the first human being to offer the first incense stick to the god, he/she would be the luckiest human being. 

So the popular Wong Tai Sin Temple are extremely busy and crowded.

3.Watch the New Year Soccer Game

Hong Kong citizens ignore the local soccer league. They just care the New Year Soccer Game because they can see lots of STARS! 

In the past, Russia's Alexander Mostovoi, Mexico's Cuauhtémoc Blanco etc. showed up. 

In 2015, representative of the year, GOAT, invites the Spanish prolific goal scorer, Raul Gonzalez, with his New York Cosmos teammates to play in Hong Kong!

4.Chinese New Year Night Parade

2015 is the 20th anniversary of the new year night parade. Hong Kong citizens can take the chance to take the selfies with the beautiful and sexy performers. 

They will upload the selfies to the Facebook and wait for mo LIKEs!

5.Chinese New Year Fireworks Display

Hong Kong has lots of the fireworks show. The Chinese New Year Firework is the biggest. 

300,000 - 400,000 people enjoy the show at the Victoria Harbour front.

6.Lunar New Year Horse Race Meeting

'Good Luck in horse racing' (馬運亨通 Ma Wan Heng Tong) is a popular greeting during the Chinese New Year. 

People want to test their luck by their cash through betting on their favourite racing horses.

7.Play Mahjong

During the family reunion dinners or visits in friends' homes, people try to kill the time or enhancing the friendship by playing Mahjong.  

If you want to be healthier in the new year, you can play Mahjong as 'Mahjong can cure hundred different illnesses'. 

At least, playing Mahjong can improve your calculation skill and prevent dementia.

Frank the tour guide says Gong Hei Fat Choy and Happy New Year to all in the Year of GOAT!!!

For easy and enjoyable private tour planning in Hong Kong and Macau, please contact Frank.

How can travelers go to the Victoria Peak if they don't take the Peak Tram?

Other ways to go up the Victoria Peak

There are FOUR other ways to go up the Peak (not including Peak tram and taxi)!

Bus route No 15

No 15 departs at Central.  It goes to the Peak via Wan Chai.  So it takes time to go to the destination.  

If you sit at the front row of the upper deck of the bus, you can see how the skillful driver surmounts the steep and narrow roads of the Victoria Peak.

Green mini bus No 1

No 1 green mini bus also departs at Central.  As the mini-bus is faster than the big bus and it uses the short-cut, Magazine Gap Road, it is more efficient than the bus.  

However, as it can only accommodate 16 passengers, the mini buses are often full.

'Bus route No 11', ON FOOT

In the past, people in Hong Kong called 'walking' as 'taking bus route No 11'!  

There is a footpath next to the Garden Road Cable Car Terminal.  People can take 'bus route No 11' to go to the Peak from there.  

During the walk, you can see the skyscrapers and flora and fauna.  It takes only about two hours to walk to the Peak Tower! 

If you don't have enough preparation and energy, please don't choose this option.                                                                                                                         

Private tour by private car

You can find Frank the tour guide for help to arrange the easy and efficient private tour by private guide and private car to you.

See YOU at Victoria Peak!

Paper Offering Shops in Hong Kong

Hong Kong's paper offering shops

In the modern city center and the traditional markets of Hong Kong, you can still find a lot of paper offering shops.

Origin of paper offering shops

Chinese believe that after death, our souls will live in another world.  So the lonely souls still need friends, servants or daily necessities.  For catering their ancestors' lonely souls, people make different offerings for them.

The terra-cotta warriors in Xian were the offerings for protecting the soul of the first emperor of China.

That was too expensive and time-consuming to make the terra-cotta offerings. So people use the cheaper and easier paper to make the offerings.

Functions of paper offerings 

Nowadays, Chinese still make and burn lots of different kinds of paper offerings for their ancestors. They get them at the paper offering shops.

People burn the paper money for the ancestors.  Then the ancestors can ‘maintain’ their ‘paper houses’ and a ‘team of paper servants’.  They can even ‘play’ the ‘paper mahjong’!

People want to be rich.  So they want their ancestors in the paradise to be wealthy also.  So they burn the ‘paper Benz’, ‘paper I-PAD’, ‘Paper LV handbag’ etc. for the ancestors.

Paper offerings are an important ancestral worship channel for the filial descendants to mourn their ancestors.  They are also the emotional projection of people’s wishes.

Paper offering shops today

There are still a lot of paper offering shops in Hong Kong toady.  

The artists inside are the living cultural heritage because they know some fading skills, like making paper lanterns!

YOU can have a easy and enjoyable private tour in Hong Kong to learn more about the local religious culture.

Please contact Frank the tour guide for YOUR private tour planning.

YOU may browse the following easy and enjoyable private tour options for details...

half day Kowloon culture tour

full day Hong Kong Lantau tour

Does Hong Kong have other interesting ferry rides, apart from the Star Ferry?

Other interesting ferry rides in Hong Kong

Apart from the Star Ferry, there are other interesting local ferry rides in Hong Kong waiting for You!

Kwun Tong to Sai Wan Ho ferry

You can take the ferry at the Kwun Tong Public Pier.  

The selling point of this route is the huge and grand Kai Tak Cruise Terminal.  

After arriving at Sai Wan Ho, you can enjoy the drinks at the relaxing SoHo East.

 

Sai Wan Ho to Sam Ka Tsuen ferry

After enjoying the happy hour, that is the time for a delicious seafood dinner.  

You can return to the Sai Wan Ho Public Pier to take the ferry to Sam Ka Tsuen Pier, which is right next to the famous Lei Yue Mun Fishing Village! 

The seafood restaurants, which are built on stilt and near the pier, are waiting for you.  

North Point to Hung Hom ferry

You may take the DING DING, double-decker tram, to go to North Point Ferry Pier.  

The ferry pier is also a seafood market.  You can see lots of strange but tasty creatures there.  

After enjoying the breathtaking sea view for about 10 minutes, you can reach Hung Hom Area by the ferry.  

You can have a shopping spree at the cool and funny ship-like department store, AEON, at Whampoa Garden.

If YOU want to take the ferry ride during YOUR private tour to learn more about Hong Kong, YOU may contact Frank the tour guide for YOUR private tour planning.

YOU may also browse the two easy and enjoyable full day tour links for details...

Hong Kong Kowloon 8-hour private tour

Hong Kong Lantau Island 8-hour private tour

YOU may browse the ferry schedule.