Lunar New Year Fair at Victoria Park

Tons of people everywhere!

Went to check out the Lunar New Year Fair with some friends last night!  I thought it would just be a small flower market but it was this huge night market with tons of stalls selling all kinds of stuff, with a section for flowers and some sections for food.  It's kinda like Pacific Mall on steroids, LOL.  There were tons of tiger related products since it's the year of the tiger - soo cute :)

If you've been to the night market in Toronto, it's kinda like that, but 10x larger.  Probably the funniest thing I saw that night was "fake" stuff:

"McDoduck" boxes with Mcnugget pillow inside

 

Tons and tons of flowers on sale too. Some pots went up to $2000+ HKD... I believe flowers in the home are supposed to bring luck, and different flowers represent different things (prosperity, long life, romance, etc).

 

Of course we also ate alot of food!  I love street food, SO GOOD.  We tried a few things - this skewer of some red seedy fruit coated in a caramelized/"frozen" sugary syrup.  We originally wanted strawberry, oops :P

Next up we have fried coke.  According to the sign it was "American style" fried coke. Hmmm. :P  It tasted weird, the middle was like, warm sticky syrupy coke, surrounded by thick batter and topped with what tasted like crushed coke candy.  I give it a rating of "meh".

Lastly we had some cheong fun which I talked about in a previous post.  LOVE IT!

We left around 11pm and there were even MORE people streaming in than when we got there!  It's so true how midnight in Hong Kong is the same as the afternoon... just as bright and just as many people!

Sing-K in HK

First time doing Karaoke in Hong Kong and it was CRAZY!  Never expected it to be so... intense shall I say.  Didn't take enough pictures but still have a few (unfortunately extremely blurry), so hopefully it's enough to give you an idea of how it's like.

(pic taken from Google)

About 30+ of us (I know, crazy already) went up to Neway, a Kareoke chain, in Mong Kok.   At first I didn't even think they would have a room to fit us all but I was proven wrong :P  After we booked a room we had to go up one floor to the room we were assigned to.  We walked down this looong hall lined with Karaoke rooms (at least 80) until we reached our room.

Our room was sooo huge.  Two huge TV screens for Karaoke and 2 smaller screens for song selection.  We also had a private (single) washroom, and 6 wireless mics.

(The Washroom)

Coolest thing was, the place also had a buffet!  Man, Hong Kong and their buffets everywhere :P  There was a "buffet room" where they had sushi, make your own hot pot (with mini pots and hot plates there for you to cook), octopus balls, peking duck wrap, stir fry noodles and grilled skewers (octopus, chicken, sausages).  All this was made to order.... mmm.  There's another room where they had tons of hot tray food where you can serve yourself.  Dessert was also included - mango pudding, cakes, etc, and also this guy who would make a dessert plate for you with lava cake, ice cream or other cakes and decorate it all nice and pretty :) 

Pics from left to right:  Line up for sushi, make your own hotpot, dessert guy, stir fry and grill, octopus balls, peking duck and chinese sausage rice.

Here's a pic of some of the food I got, yum =)  The total price was about $170 per person, seems pretty expensive in HK but when I convert it back it's less than $25CAD.  This wasn't happy hour either, so in Canada this would be a craaazy deal :P  Must go again sometime!