Hong Kong Left Us Absolutely Speechless… 😱

Hong Kong Left Us Absolutely Speechless… 😱

we are currently in Hong Kong our 47th 
country this epic city is filled with so many interesting and quirky things 
to do including a $1 faery but to tell the story of our first impressions of 
Hong Kong properly we need to rewind 24 hours we have absolutely loved our time in 
Malaysia but the excitement level that I have for Hong Kong is through the roof this flight 
marks the start of really fast travel for us we are seeing six more countries in the next 
6 weeks and not just like the main city in that country we’re traveling the countries 
yeah it’s going to be hard and fast but we are super excited and Hong Kong feels like 
a great place to start it is full of deep history apparently amazing food awesome SES 
and I cannot wait to get there plan that way there is no one on this flight Jordan and I 
each have a row of three ourselves plus two behind me one two in front of me Jordan has 
three in front of him how did we get so lucky your now demonstrate the use of the safety 
equipment carried on this aircraft please give your attention to the F at the front of 
your cabin this is your seat Bel to fet insert the metal link into the Buckle and tighten the 
belt by 4 hours in a very empty flight later and we’ve made it home for those of you that don’t 
know Hong Kong it’s made up of three main land masses and a bunch of different Islands the 
airport’s actually on its own Island out to the side so to get to our hotel which is pretty 
centrally located we need to get public transport so I believe the easy way to get into the 
city from the airport is the airport express but that is much more expensive than the bus 
a21 is in the yellow the bus system here I’m impressed with already not only can we pay on 
my card like we had to download the app but I can just tap on tap off with my phone but 
the way this is all laid out at the airport is so seamless that we can understand it as 
idiot tourists and just idiots in general yeah nice very good thank you one one so easy was so cute I think 
a lot of people get it wrong with like one taps or two Taps stuff 
no it’s getting frustrated but we who Okay hectic finish to the bus 
but we got a six minute walk to our hotel nice wow this is so spacious this a this is great look at all of this room 
I love it we’ll show you around in the morning good morning from Hong Kong Country 47 crazy I 
cannot believe we are in country 47 and we are already head over heels in love with this place 
I also slept like a damn baby this bed I don’t know what they have in it but I feel like I was 
just hugged all night it could have been cuz we were tired but I feel like it was the pillows 
and the duvet so white and fluffy it’s also located right next to Victoria Harbor which is 
where you kind of want to be in Hong Kong it’s where all the action is we’ve got Avenue of the 
Stars down the road and something interesting to eat okay this isn’t the original plan we had 
for this morning but I put on Instagram asking for Hong Kong recommendations and one just came 
through for a place that’s literally around the corner thank you first Hong Kong coffee I feel 
like maybe we should have asked for extra hot but it’s like super drinkable temperature right 
now but I feel like I need to scul it right now at the same time if that makes sense that’s 
like my temperature it’s your temperature I like it a bit hotter than this but that place was 
awesome very organized I’m loving that about Hong Kong so far you go in one way out the other 
apparently their sourdough egg Tarts is what they’re known for because they already sold 
out and it’s 9:00 a.m. they opened an hour ago and they’re sold out so this is one of the things 
that we leared about in Hong Kong in preparation for coming here is that they are one of the 
only countries remaining in the world that uses bamboo for scaffolding because it’s cheaper 
easier to source and as far as like safety and strength goes it’s the same if not better 
than still isn’t that crazy it looks so cool people are so bloody nice I like walked down and 
you weren’t here and I stopped and turned around and I couldn’t see you but I could feel this 
vibrate so I knew you were still close enough that you were turning on the camera and getting 
something and I was like is he duck down behind the bamboo no you were just having a lovely chat 
to an awesome lady that was so nice God as if we didn’t love Hong Kong already just as we were 
talking about the bamboo scaffolding and how cool it is a woman came up and started talking 
to us she say she’s just a civil engineer and was talking about how they use this bamboo and how 
it’s so much prettier than dis steal but also more useful and she showed us what you they tie it 
together with and ah she was great man people here that was so cool God I love it we’ve been 
up for like half an hour love this place so so cool wow this is crazy it’s such a big city oh well that’s just one island of the city 
that’s Hong Kong Island and it is ginormous what’s awesome is I’m pretty sure this is where 
you can watch the Symphony of the lights from and it’s literally a 2-minute walk from our hotel 
what’s the Symphony of the lights every single night at I think 8:30 p.m. the Hong Kong Skyline 
puts on a light show to Symphony music I guess I don’t really know if there’s music involved just 
the word symphony is making me sh that there is but it’s a super popular like one of the top 
tourist attractions to come and do and it’s completely free so we might try and end the day 
today with that because I think with our current plans that should make sense but the day is 
already off to like a crazy exciting start so who knows so the original plan was to get 
something completely different but like Emily said someone told us an Instagram that we 
can’t miss the bake house so we had to stop off there this morning and pick up to incredibly 
goodlook pastries and some coffee but we did also stop off and got a p what’s it called 
pineapple pineapple bun bun and it has not a scrap of pineapple in it whatsoever the name 
pineapple bun comes from the appearance of the bun like the breakage of the top I guess the 
crust people don’t really know where it’s come from originally but there’s someone who claims 
that his shop that opened in the’ 40s was the first to make them and it was actually frying 
something that is an old chinesee dish so it existed before and then he fried it and then he 
made a new thing but it’s disputed no one really knows but it’s massive in Hong Kong and it has 
been exported globally because of how popular it is all right I’m going to try the pineapple 
bun first what I’m least excited for if I’m honest just tastes like a bun like it’s nice 
it’s very light and fluffy I have not much to say about this we didn’t get it from anywhere 
like specific we just went to literally the place that’s downstairs from our hotel so it’s 
super close and it was 9 Hong Kong so it didn’t really cost much at all I will say the top crust 
is quite nice the bun like interior just tastes like a regular bun but there’s like a little 
sweetness on top it’s nice but I’m way more excited for Bak house this one I’m so excited for 
hazelnut donut I think and it feels like you know when you feel a donut and it’s got that little 
bit of give little bit of smoosh really nice really flaky honestly not as good as I thought 
it would be wow I think maybe the strawberry one is going to be going to be the winner have 
you got stuff in there it seems like it’s stuff it seems like it should be right yeah there’s 
like a hole maybe further in take another bite take another bite if I have to take another 
bite the cream on the inside tastes exactly like Ferrera Rocher like that kind of H nutti so 
that is really really good we just got to get to it try the other one I asked the lovely lady at 
the shop what her favorite was and she said the sourdough Tarts which they were sold out of um and 
then her second was this so I had to get that it looks like there’s little pistachios maybe on top 
just quickly are they sourdough Tarts yeah oh wow it’s sourdough egg Tarts so I think it’s maybe 
like we’ve obviously had egg Tarts in Malaysia this is like a different thing like the casing 
is sourdough somehow um but clearly very very popular sounded good it was really good the 
entire thing is like glazed but it tastes like a strawberry flavor glaze M I haven’t even 
gotten to the good stuff and that was really good this seems like it’s a super popular thing to do 
cuz we’ve seen I’ve seen three other people with a little Bak house bag come down to Avenue of 
the Stars which is almost like Hollywood’s Walk of Fame like there is a lot of hand prints for 
acclaimed actresses actors filmmakers thespians all that sort of stuff it’s really popular 
tourist thing to do and apparently there’s a statue of Bruce Lee somewhere that we’re going to 
try and find it is a great spot for a picnic cuz not only is it Avenue of the Stars no no but 
it’s also an insane view of Hong Kong Island we always seem to be eating like our sugary 
fakes deep fried things in places where who will go for runs really puts it in perspective it 
makes it taste better makes it taste better also we get comments all the time on these videos 
saying like a bunch of recommendations so I’m start asking before we go somewhere on Instagram 
so we can get awesome recommendations like this cuz we had no idea this existed so make sure 
you follow us there and thank you to on today’s Adventures for this recommendation cuz I agree 
bake house is worth the hype you guys are the best Avenue of the Stars is a 440 M length kind 
of walkway runway on the Calon Peninsula and apparently Bruce Le was awarded 
actor of the century wow I don’t know if that was awarded like by Hong Kong or 
like a global thing but fair enough he’s pretty good our next stop is actually 
not on the Calon peninsula where we are now we have to go across to Hong Kong 
Island and there is one fun way to do that so Hong Kong used to be a small little 
fishing Village and it’s probably one of the best examples of a place that’s exploded into 
not only a central place for Asia but a Global Financial hub for everything it was under the 
Imperial Chinese rule until 1842 where the British kind of claimed it after an opium War I don’t 
really know the real specifics of that but it was under British Ro for decades centuries even 
and that’s why I think some of the architecture looks the way it does how perfect timing is that 
we are literally pulling into court right now Central is quite hilly we’re walking up a street 
with heaps of steps I do know that the escalators are one of the like tourist attractions here but 
we have one more full day here so we’re trying to save some stuff for tomorrow and the next video so 
we are hoofing it today it’s a good exercise it is making me hungry already but we’re going to go see 
a temple and then find something to eat I think I love man Mo Temple that was literally a 
little like oh yeah I guess we’ll go see that Temple cuz it’s kind of nearby that was 
awesome and like a group came in just after us and they were talking about the history of it 
so we learned that it’s a tow Temple and that those red things that were hanging off the 
lanterns are like people’s wishes yeah and the incense burning around them is the smoke 
taking the wish up to the gods I didn’t even hear that BD that’s amazing the other thing 
that I did know is it was built around 1847 in the Qing Dynasty I’m not sure if that’s how you 
pronounce it it’s q i n g oh Ching Dynasty um and it this air in there is thick with incense feel 
like you could push the air it’s that th you can smell it on the outside you can see it coming 
out it is stunning like it just gives it this awesome atmosphere all of the red like with the 
darkness that the Smoke’s created I don’t know I really like it it’s super moody and again zero 
expectations but when you’re in Hong Kong come and check it out free entry it’s very unique and 
I’m sure there’s more history about it that we might put in as a voiceover or something like 
that cuz I just loved that that was my one of my favorite temples we’ve ever been to yeah it’s 
right up there for me as well and the Open Flame and the incense burning is just like so I don’t 
know it’s atic and pleasing to the eye also we learned that the toist religion worships monkey 
gods and there’s multiple different monkey gods in there and if you want to like donate or kind 
of contribute you can get your own incense incense and thing to write down your own wish and put it 
in there as well all right moving on moving on one thing we are loving about Hong Kong is how 
many trees there are in dispersed throughout the city the noise isn’t matching how my brain 
thinks it should be like how many buildings and like there should be heaps of people here 
and the city noise should be really loud but it’s just not it’s beautiful they’ve got like 
lots of oneway streets which makes navigating the streets so much easier elevated Pathways 
treelined so many places which feels like it’s kind of absorbing the noise and cooling 
the city down yeah I don’t know they’ve done something right yeah I’m just having the 
best day ever all right let’s get some food so you go up to 1,000 Cs and there’s a lot of 
people yelling and no one really knows what’s going on and I got something I tried to say 
pork a lot but I don’t think my English pork translates very well so this literally 
could be anything I didn’t get chicken feed though she kept me like chicken be like 
no I’m still not really sure what I got um it’s definitely tasting seafoody but it tastes 
kind of like crab maybe broad but I think crab I don’t know it’s actually a really good system 
I don’t mind it at all there you just got what do you want bang Circle done pay at the end 
once you know what you’re doing it’s pretty good thank you should save the egg Tarts for the end right that makes sense yeah so 
like bouncy looks looks cartoonish again o what it’s almost sweet I have no idea 
it’s really good I was expecting like barbecue chicken or pork it’s like custard almost 
it’s really good though like a dessert one this place is insane and needs to be on your list I think we’re ending who with some 
egg tars it’s a lot more eggy than the ones we’ve had before the egg pots we’ve 
had before but it’s also a lot flakier like the crust so the way this place works cuz we had 
no idea thank thankfully we were sitting next to a love couple that helped us is you’ll get S 
sat down at a table and given a piece of paper then there’s people walking around with these 
old school metal trolleys and just stacks and stuff on top you walk up and tell them what you 
want they’ll give you a tray with all of it on top marker off on your little piece of paper 
you bring it back to your table to enjoy and then you just take your paper up and that’s how 
they know how much to charge you so we have no idea how much this costs or really what anything 
was or is we also got a beautiful fragrant I think jasmine tea when we sat down it seems like 
they walk around and offer it to people as well so you don’t have to hop up every time but 
because we’re sort of like inside they can’t get to us quite easily but this is super fun if 
you’re coming to Hong you need to come here I will say I think they sell out so come early 
um they also have a break in the middle of the day for a couple of hours so yeah try and time it 
to come here cuz this is awesome that was so much fun and so expensive and we met an awesome 
couple right at the end and they gave me pork knuckle which I’m deciding I don’t want to know 
what that is and we’ve got to she’s giving some of this to try she said it’s sweet and it’s got 
Ginger and it’s good for the ladies thank you okay it’s so gingery I really like that 
it’s like spicy from the ginger feels healthy we try something special 
a TR traditional food oh wow in like this Ginger thing and it’s going to be 
really good for the ladies it was delicious 190 h k d n a u 40 bucks crazy Hong 
Kong is not a budget friendly place but it is very very fun but now 
we’re going to somewhere free so such old school stairs I personally would never think of 
Zoological Park as like a free thing to do but the botanical garden and Zoological Park 
in Hong Kong is completely free to enter I think some of the sections are closed at the 
moment for disinfection and maintenance so we won’t see hips of animals but it’s nice 
to come here and get a break from the city so this Zoological and Botanic Garden Park was 
founded in 1864 which apparently makes it one of the earliest in the entire world which is 
such a cool fact for Hong Kong to have that kind of history but there’s mammals birds Gardens 
obviously heaps of orchids here which is like the national flower of Hong Kong it’s such a cool 
place to just walk around cool off a little bit and work off all the dumplings did not know 
Gibbons were the most playful and cute animals ex the mammal areas actually closed off so there’s 
meant to be heaps more to see through here but I think it’s like disinfection and cleaning oh we 
got to see the little gim Gibbons though very cool we got s Gib but that is not the last thing we’re 
doing today no we’re going to go back to the hotel to quickly freshen up before something fun to end 
the day with and just like that we are about to board a Sunset Cruise on the oldest boat in Hong 
Kong I’m so excited they look so cute you can already see them sailing they have these massive 
red sails and it’s like a old wooden Fisher Bo fisher boat fisherman boat fishing boat it’s 
an old wooden fishing boat I’m so excited thank you we scooch over the other side Maybe this is so much fun we got goodat 
too I know they’re not meant to be seats feel this is quite right next to the driver driver I decided to go for a 
beer you can get a beer juice one drink included and we’re out 
on the river watching sunset on the he probably has to be one of the best ways 
to see the sunset slash just like moving from daytime to nighttime because the skyline 
that was so romantic I really like that and it was like we got these tickets through 
get your guide today so if in Hong Kong you should definitely book on there are 
a few other options like for sunset or unlimited drinks funs options if you want 
them I think the duckling is the way to go little bit historic little bit fun much more 
romantic and they only C 35 people Max on your own # not sponsored oh yeah it’s not sponsored 
I’m just having the best day ever # # stop I had such a great first full day in 
Hong Kong yeah it has been incredible and so much more than I thought it was 
going to be yeah and we missed a bunch like so many exciting things still left 
to do but we’re saving that for tomorrow and the next video yeah before you comment 
you you’re still on this what’s the next one and then feel free to comment yeah if we’ve 
still forgotten stuff from there let us know

Hong Kong should be on your list!

We had always heard Hong Kong was a popular stop-over destination and now we fully understand why! Hong Kong has it all and more!

Only having two days meant we had to cram A LOT of things in but we think we got to see the city’s best sides.

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*CHAPTERS*
00:20 – Why Hong Kong
01:54 – We landed in Hong Kong!
03:39 – Finding Breakfast
05:02 – The people of Hong Kong are awesome!
07:12 – Avenue of the stars & Breakfast
12:02 – Star Ferry!
13:33 – Man mo Temple (Underrated)
16:28 – Eating lunch like a local
20:58 – Botanic and Zoological park of Hong Kong
22:50 – Sunset cruise in Hong Kongs Harbour

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