The fourth day in Hong Kong would begin at a yet later time in the morning. So late in fact, that Hen little boy was up and playing cards with K for sometime before meeting time. We set out for brunch in Tsim Sha Tsui, ordering breakfast style food at almost noon. Food consumed included fried dough fritters, porridge, chang fen, and Hen little boy’s daily cup of milk (apparently the cup on day 2 was the best).
While we were there, E found that she was missing something, possibly her handphone. As such, D&E left quickly after finishing their meal to return to the hotel to search. The rest took a while longer to eat, and then used the underground network yet again to get to Harbour City-Ocean Centre. It was a large mall, but did not seem particularly inviting initially as the first floor was filled with outlets of some considerably high-end brands, such as Versace.
The outdoor viewing areas were also not of much note, as they faced the water and little else. If it was of any help, there was a Superstar boat in the docks. There was a shop that would be of some significance to the guys, and that was City Super, probably a Japanese supermarket. The building itself could be said to be a little confusing, especially as it turned out to be 3 malls linked to each other rather than a single development.
It took a while for D&E to rejoin us, with E’s handphone eventually located under her bed. D&E met us at our first meeting time, which was also quite a coincidence. While waiting, Zhe little boy first expressed interest in buying earphones, which caused Hen little boy to also raise his interest, and then Slim and possibly even Jc. This resulted in them going back up to a tech shop, while B (stayed for the free Wifi), Van and K waited at the meeting place. Eventually though, none of them bought earphones from the shop in question.
We proceeded to set the next meeting time for dinner, so that we could split up and shop wherever we liked in Tsim Sha Tsui as much as possible. D immediately decided to head to City Super, taking the rest of the guys with him. Boss got the direction wrong though, but it brought the guys to a part of the mall most of them had not yet been to. While D was looking for what he wanted from City Super, Boss and Zhe little boy were looking for alcoholic drinks and related mixers. They eventually bought a bottle of Martini and a Malibu for the alcohol.
During the free time, some ate at ToastBox while others ate at the food court below that. Some of us also met each other outside some random shop in some random mall which I obviously fail to remember the name of. Fast forward to meeting time and we had much less trouble finding each other at the station due to the much better structure. We proceeded to Jordan and headed for Temple Street Night Market. There, the genders split for their meals, the girls attempted street food while the guys, led by D, headed for Yoshinoya. On the way to Yoshinoya, the guys nearly stopped at a random food shop. The food didn’t look bad, but a coin toss was used to decide between the two, and Yoshinoya won out.
Shopping was again on our own, and some even headed for Mong Kok from there. We ultimately met back at the hotel, with even the lane adjacent to our hotel containing night market shops. There were yet more people eating claypot rice on that lane, at another shop.
Room 203 hosted the group, primarily a drinking game conducted by Boss. By the end there was full attendance, and among the drinkers it was likely that none were drunk. The drinkers were Boss, the little boys, and Van. The room did get quite warm, with everyone stuffed into it. Jc took quite a while to join us, around 3 hours, maybe 1 hour for the bath, and something in between that and combing hair. She ended the night as the only one who had had their bath. She was also among the last to leave, along with Miss Awesome and Hen little boy after a few additional games of Monopoly Deal.
During the drinking game, all the “Toilet cards” were held by girls, although none of them used it (no one else needed the washroom anyway). Slim used a rule card to dictate that anyone who used “uh” would have to drink. Van used a rule card to dictate that B would have to drink twice whenever anyone else had to drink. This had a disastrous consequence especially when all had to drink. There were 2 more rule cards, but my memory fails again. During the “categories” games, Hen little boy ended up drinking most often. During “7-up” Slim lost most often. During “Who, what, huh”, and “I went to a supermarket”, a small range of people lost. In the latter game, there were many strange items bought, including (some variation of) a unicorn, strawberries with insects on top and one 200ml 300g bottle of cream which caused the game to end after just 1 person survived. B was also the unfortunate collector of the 4th King, which meant that she would consume the contents of cup which contained whatever the recipients of the other 3 Kings had placed inside. In this case, it was a vitamin C tablet (foaming due to the limited water inside), some potato chips, water (Boss) and something else. B finished the cup off without appearing too troubled.
It was quite late by the time we were done, along with the additive effect of sleeping late and the emerging lack of interest in yet more shopping, the meeting time for the next day was basically set for check-out, also the latest meeting time for the whole trip.
