Eat my way to Hong Kong - The Airport Express shuttle bus is too small!

The most economical and convenient way to travel from Hong Kong airport to downtown is via the Airport Express. They have single trip tickets to either Hong Kong or Kowloon station, return tickets, and even a travel pass that includes 3 days of unlimited travel on MTR trains and buses. The travel pass does not work for us, and since we were expecting to travel back from Kowloon, we just bought the single trip to Hong Kong station.

Perhaps due to its high frequency of trains, the Airport Express trains are actually pretty empty.



Upon reaching Hong Kong station, there are free shuttle buses taking the passengers to various major hotels. But wait a minute... those were shuttle vans, not shuttle buses! And everybody have to try their very best to squeeze their huge luggages on the little 2 level shelf at the door of the van! OMG...

After a long trip on the little shuttle van, we finally reached our hotel which was the last stop of the journey. We were lucky that we managed to get some promotion price for our Regal Hong Kong room. It is a five-stars hotel, so its rooms are big, and most importantly, it is near to the Causeway Bay MTR station and even tram stops!



Why are there so many paintings in the bedroom? I mean, like as many as 5, including one super big one above the bed?



Starved, we walked to the nearby Tai Ping Koon Restaurant for our very late lunch. Tai Ping Koon is a very old and well-known western restaurant in Hong Kong, and surprisingly, their popular dishes are their chicken wings in Swiss sauce and fried beef kway teow! Though they have uncles as waiters (hey, told you this is a very old restaurant right!), these uncles are rather courteous and efficient, even better than some of the young ones!

Both the chicken wings and roasted pigeon dishes have Swiss sauce over them, but since pigeons are harder to find in Singapore, and when you do find them, they are super expensive, we selected roasted pigeon over the chicken wings. As for the Swiss sauce, there is nothing Swiss about it. It is just sweet soya sauce! But tastes good though!



I know it is weird to order fried beef kway teow in a western restaurant, but it was really a good decision to do so! It was like the best fried beef kway teow I've ever eaten in my life! The "wok smell", the thinness of the kway teow, the tenderness of the beef slices, it was the fried beef kway teow to die for! I don't even get this kind of standard in some of Singapore's expensive Chinese restaurants!



Because our set came with dessert, we didn't have the chance to order their famous gigantic souffle. But the very 80s cream cake is still a nice one!