OVER THE RAINBOW: Day 2

Our day started pretty early when we were in Hong Kong as we have to be in the Hong Kong office; located at Wang Chiu Road, Kowloon Bay, between 8.30-9am.

So could you imagine, for me, I'd have to be up by 6am, wash up, makeup, curl up and dress up by 7.30 and rush for our good breakfast at 7.45am so that we could get a cab and be on the way by 8.15am!

The cab ride took us between 15 to 25mins depending on traffic AND we were not late, not even for once! *proud*

We were given an office tour and YES I was so impressed at how nice their view was from every angle and every part of the office.. here's the view from the room we used for the 4-day conference.

In office, other than meeting, presentation, discussion and lots of interaction, we'd get unlimited and free flow of coffee, tea, water, fruits and cookies throughout! Occasionally, we'd get renowned local snacks too. They were very thoughtful and hospitable. *thank you*

Only on this first day of the conference, our Hong Kong colleagues brought us out for extremely sinful lunch at the building next to ours - MEGABOX.

It was a very interesting mall that housed more restaurants and eating places. I also noticed that in Hong Kong, they have lines and ushers who maintained orderly crowd at all lift lobbies in major buildings and departmental stores! Very interesting. Just like how we'd queue in banks in Singapore.

Here's the nice restaurant and lunch spread. We went to Level 17, Paramount Banquet Hall. It was a really luxurious set-up; chandelier, lavish wall paper and the expensive smell of a Chinese restaurant!

They booked 2 tables and endless flow of dim sum spread! I could only say... the amount ordered for us were simply horrifying! And I also noticed they ate very little! Or was it because I ate too much? *giggles*

After lunch, some of us went up to Starbucks to grab coffee and headed on back to continue the conference.

We 'knocked off' at 5-ish and headed back to hotel to freshen up! So tiring that we decided to spend the evening nearby our hotel and have an early night.

My 2 colleagues + Malaysian colleague, E went out together. He also happened to be the only male throughout this conference and he kept all really well-entertained. We decided to just eat at any place that had a queue = good food! We found one just 2 blocks away from our hotel.

This was like a roadside 'Dai Pai Tung' except that it was indoor and air-conditioned. Mui Kee.

This place seemed pretty famous with plenty of newspaper and magazine publications. It was founded by a young lady when she was 23 or 26 a few years ago! The food was good and was cheap! 4 of us ordered so much and only cost us about SGD 40+.

We had a soup... nice and refreshing taste. Their famous wok-fried chicken, fried you-tiao with stuffing, stuffed pumpkin! It was a good meal.

you'd really not noticed this eating place, it was tucked in the basement of a building you'd wouldn't stop to look.. thank goodness, we followed the crowd in. GOOD ONE!