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109: To Tokyo with Style

Sunday, March 26th, 2006

I left Hong Kong yesterday and flew to Tokyo. The flight was rather pleasant as the kind people at United Airlines upgraded me to Business Class. NICE 😀

BIG, comfy chairs, excellent service and a rather nice good 3-course meal (salad with smoked salmon, a Japanese steamed Salmon dish for main course and a peach cheese cake with passion fruit mousse.. They even had Starbucks Coffee on board..

After this nice flight I arrived at Narita Airport in Tokyo at 14:00 a bit ahead of schedule but dont think that was the end of the trip.

Immigration took ages and the train to Tokyo took even longer.
In the end it took me another 3.30 hours! to get to my hotel after I left the airplane!

more later.. end of online time at internet cafe..

108: More Hong Kong

Friday, March 24th, 2006

This morning I walked to a little coffee shop next to the Royal Pacific Hotel. I knew that this place has free Internet access for customers so it was a chance to google for “hong kong internet cafe” and try to find proper internet cafes.

After my time was up (I also wrote the 107 blog there) I left and walked back towards Nathan Road to find a proper Internet Cafe. I could not help it but had to pop into Sweet Dynasty Restaurant again which is not far from Royal Pacific Hotel on Canton Road. It’s a place that specialises on Deserts and their menu starts with a few pages of them. I had Tofu with fresh Mango there yesterday which comes in a steaming bowl and looks rather pretty (they use dry ice I think) but I wanted to try their Swallows Nest Deserts today.

Since It was late lunch time (ok it was around 3pm) I de3cided to have some Congee first.
I picked Sweet Dynasty Congee with Meat Balls, Pigs Tribe, Preserved Egg and Spicy Pork.
It was very tasty indeed and a pretty big bowl for 32 HKD. For those who don’t know Preserved Egg, I don’t know exactly how they make it, it tastes interesting but it looks rather revolting 😉 It’s like a boiled egg except the egg while is translucent brown and the yegg yolk is – dare I say it – dark greenish colored. Not what you would normally consider a healthy looking egg 🙂

After the congee I picked Stewed Swallows Nest Soup in Coconut Milk.
It’s a desert (they also had it waith Walnut soup, Almond soup and Raw Cane Sugar Soup I think) and was quite nice though IMHO didn’t quite justify the high price of 200HKG. Still I had to try it..

Hmmm, I wonder what’s for dinner.. 😀

107: Hong Kong

Friday, March 24th, 2006
I arrived in Hong Kong yesterday but due to lack of Internet Cafes and limited online time allowance at the one I am at right now (I get chucked out now after 15 minutes) I must continue this later .. All ... [Continue reading this entry]

106: Lucky Me

Friday, March 24th, 2006
I arrived in Hong Kong yesterday but before I got here I had another little adventure at Bangkok Airport ;-) I left Ko Samui rather early by catching the 6AM flight to Bangkok, arrivig at 7AM and leaving plenty of time ... [Continue reading this entry]

105: Samui

Friday, March 17th, 2006
I left Ko Tao and moved on to Ko Samui today. Took the Seatran ferry and had a rather pleasant 2h trip over to Ko Samui. Reason I went here is twofold: a) I fly out to Bangkok from here to ... [Continue reading this entry]

104: Life after Ko Tao

Monday, March 13th, 2006
Looks like I have to face the facts and leave Ko Tao sooner than later ;-) My Japan trip is approaching fast and I haven't even read up about it.. Actually I had several trip changes recently starting with the decision to ... [Continue reading this entry]

103: Swimming with Sharks

Monday, March 13th, 2006
At last.. it took two weeks of looking out for sharks during my dive trips (without success) but today I went snorkelling at Shark Bay and about 200m off the beach I found 8-10 Black Top Sharks below me - ... [Continue reading this entry]

102: Ko Tao – Diving

Monday, March 13th, 2006
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101: Ko Tao Pics

Monday, March 13th, 2006
I added a few pictures from Ko Tao to flickr. Not much considering that I have been on Ko Tao for two weeks now but I have been mostly underwater diving and that camera isn't all that waterproof and whilst ... [Continue reading this entry]

100: Ko Tao – The Island

Sunday, March 12th, 2006
Guess it's time to do a bit of bloggin again, especially since it's gonna be blog 100 ;-) So lets talk a bit about Ko Tao then... It's a nice relaxed Island for a start, a magnitude better than Ko Samui ... [Continue reading this entry]