We wrapped up our time in Hong Kong today. On our way out we stopped at a mall to satisfy our Dim Sum cravings. The restaurant at the bottom floor was fairly large and very busy. We got a shared table and were given our menu, specials menu, order slip and tally sheet. The menu had English on it but no pictures to help you figure out what you might be ordering. The specials menu had pictures but no English text. A combination of pointing at pictures and a nice neighbor helped us figure out which items to tick. We have a feeling that the waitresses and other people at the table were making fun of us until Charlotte woke up and started sampling the rice dough exterior of some of the dim sum. Then we were the hit of the restaurant.
We made it to our flight and arrived in the afternoon in Singapore. The nice lady at the information desk told us that it would be too difficult to use the subway and we should either get a taxi or the airport shuttle to get to our hotel. Not liking that answer we found the subway in the next terminal and paid one fifth the price to ride to near our hotel. Then things went downhill. Our hotel room was nice and large but a bit run down and the AC did not work, which is not good in the extreme humidity of Singapore. Our next room had been recently refurbished but not everything had been reinstalled just yet. We were also given a plate of fruit in our first room which we took with us to the second room. Now we are not saying the fruit was hard, but we could have stopped an intruder with the pear.
Dinner was at another nice restaurant that was the “Best Restaurant of 2005.” They must have felt that they had fallen a little when their only customers that night were a group of guys who got a cheese plate and a young couple that requested some steamed sweet potato for their 10 month old girl. The lovely, blond 10 month old girl, who shall remain nameless, proceeded to help redecorate the table and floor.
