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We definitely enjoyed seeing the Big Buddha in Ngong Ping Village, Lantau Island, Hong Kong. It was past 6:40pm when we arrived at my sister’s place coming from Ngong Ping Village. We rested a little bit and before we knew it was already time for dinner.

It was past 8:30pm then, so we decided to just eat outside as we were hungry already. We decided to go to Golden Siam Thai Cuisine at Citygate in Tung Chung.

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On May 29, 2009, after we had our Yum Cha at Federal Palace in Citygate, we went up to Ngong Ping Village to see the Tian Tan Buddha Statue popularly known as the Big Buddha.

Instead of going up to Ngong Ping Village with the bus we went up there with the Ngong Ping Cable Car from the Tung Chung Terminal. The Ngong Ping 360 ride from Tung Chung Terminal was about 25 minutes up to Ngong Ping Terminal in Ngong Ping Village.

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One of the things we did in Hong Kong before we went to the Philippines during our vacation in May 2009 was dining the Chinese way called Yum Cha at the Federal Palace. It was so good that we decided to have Yum Cha again when we went back to Hong Kong for another stopover after coming from the Philippines.

Yum Cha is a traditional Chinese way of dining. Literally Yum Cha in Cantonese means “drinking tea” but it actually refers to the entire dining experience, drinking tea and eating dim sum dishes.

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Tung Chung was one of the places where we frequented in Hong Kong before we went to the Philippines during our vacation in May 2009. We went back to Hong Kong on May 28, 2009, and again frequented Tung Chung for shopping and eating.

Citygate was the shopping center where we always ate and shopped in Tung Chung. Shopping in Tung Chung Citygate was a little bit cheaper than in Central Hong Kong. Citygate was even renamed Citygate Outlets and said to be the only outlet mall in Hong Kong. Almost all the manufactured goods in Citygate Outlets were quite highly discounted.

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