Hong Kong Day 1

Met the 27 Red Cross cadets, Mrs Lai, Ms Vani and Mr Andrew Ong at the Changi Airport Terminal 1 at 4.30 a.m. We travelled on the budget airline Jetstar and as the flight is at 640 a.m. we need to check in 2 hours before that. There is limited leg space on the plane and the students had to pay for the drinks and food.. well we are truly on a budget trip. The landing was quite nasty too..

Lunch was on our own and our tour guide, Mr David Wong, brought us to the avenue of stars and we had our lunch in a building near it. Some of the students went to eat in McDonald and the Sec 1 cadets as well as Xinjie and Vivian followed us to eat in a Chinese restaurant next to the McDonald. We ordered the set meal which is around HK$40 inclusive of the soup and the rice/noodle.

I must say that I am pleased with the hotel (Regal Oriental Hotel) and the food provided by Golden travel. We had our dinner at this Chinese restaurant. There were 8 dishes including roast duck and red bean paste for dessert.Our tour guide went beyond his call of duty and got Siti her meals from this Halal Indian restaurant everyday as she could not take the food in the Chinese restaurant though the guide ensured her that there is no pork in some of the dishes.

We also did some shopping at the ladies' market and then back to the avenue of stars to see the symphony of lights. I was not really impressed with the light show and we went to buy a slice of cake for Ian from Starbucks as it was his birthday.

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