It was my 26th birthday and I decided to take a trip out to somewhere affordable so Hong Kong naturally came to mind. It was a 3 hours 45 minutes ride via Jetstar, a budget airline.

Hong Kong is amazing because it is so vibrant. It is like a city that never sleeps. Every nook and corner, you encounter busy ladies making their way to the markets or the dessert stores, old men with their newspapers chattering excitedly. It is heaven clearly for shopaholics. You can haggle with the mobile shop owners for the best prices for street brands and umbrellas or choose to wander into comfortable shopping centres that carry Juicy Couture, H&M and LeSportSac.

I had the best time eating in Hong Kong because Cantonese people are all about food. Roast goose noodles, cart noodles, steamboat (or the so-called hotpots), egg tarts, milk pudding, mango pomelo dessert, curry fishballs by the sticks, you name it, they have it!

Will not hesitate to go back to Hong Kong again. In fact, I will be heading there again in September 2008!