The Jones do Hong Kong - Day 6 - Mon 16th April
Sun, 2007-05-06 11:43 — dgseb
By day 6, the excitement was all getting too much - for me. I spent the day in bed with a fever.
So, time to bring out the A-team, and let Dawn take Nick & Jessie to her friendly jewellery shop in Tsim Sha Tsui. (There was a visit to Toys R Us on the way, to keep the troops happy.)
Nick had a new pair of glasses made, and a new set of lenses made for his existing pair. Meanwhile, Jessie's more expensive tastes called for something sparkly - a new set of diamond earrings.
The feedback was that they were very impressed with the service at the jewellery shop, and the prices were great too. (N&J, could you elaborate? And what other things happened on the Monday?)
Comments
Comment from Nick - earrings and glasses
I should like to point out that we paid all tax due on all goods purchased in Hong Kong as per Customs and Excise law in the UK. The shop did offer to post our receipts back home to avoid this: a trick well-known by air hostesses, apparently. Very good shop. The service on the glasses was superb. I'll dig out the name of it. They said they knew Dave - he went in their occasionaly when he had been naughty.
After Dawn very kindly took us shopping she ducked out and we had a quick lunch at Crystal Jade La Mian Xiao Long Bao in TST. We ordered too much. About 4 times too much. But it was very good.
We had a look around TST, picking out bits from my memory. Like Chungking House - "De Luxe Hotel".
We went back to the hotel and went swimming for an age and then, since it was my birthday, we went out to supper with Dawn and Grace. Dave was still ill, of course, so I had supper with 5 girls. This is not the first time this has happened, although hitting 40 this has become much less of an occurrence. We were at a lovely place - the Lei Garden. Jessie says it was the best meal of the holiday. Sasha ate some sort of deep fried bun which she adored - Dave - what are they called? We had a lovely chocolate cake with lashings of embarrassment-from-being-centre-of-attention.
Great evening. Thanks again to Dawn and Grace for organising.
Sasha's favourite buns
Grace says they're just deep-fried man tou, and that they were served with condensed milk which might explain part of the attraction!