Hello~
Today I’m back with HK Day 2 round of photos. I’ve decided I won’t be editing them into a scrapbook format because that’s taking up too much time and I have too many photos to update hahaha. ^^v
Here we go~!
Selcas with bestie Bini early in the morn’
One-shot at the floor lobby~
One more infront of an art gallery opposite our hotel. 🙂
We walk pass a rather small and cosy but vibrant local market on the way to the train station…
And a very lovely floral shop…! ^^
I love roses~~ Red and pink roses. Look at ’em so pretty!
We also walk pass a local square where elderly gather to read the mornin’ papers. 
A shot of the local breakfast place where we had most (2/3) of our local HK breakfast!
My tutor, classmates and their funny poses, kekeke.
I love how weirdly colourful put-together advertising bills are on the streets… Peculiarly making up a certain kind of HK design aesthetics!
With lovely Sharlene, while we were travelin’
This was en route to Shim Sha Tsui (unsure if I spelt it right) to the fabric market! The HKers seem to keep their floor cleanin’ a very formal affair! 🙂
We came across this building… that looked like it has a mask of pins and needles.
And we met a super cute puppy while passing by a convenient store!
The owner gladly posed for a pic with the cute puppy. Ok maybe it’s not a puppy but an adorable grown up cute dog.
And our three crazy Indonesian representatives in their highly expressive poses! ^^Â Kekeke. L-R: Sifra, Shella and Sharlene.
Now for photos of HK’s fabric market, where there’s rows and rows on end of fabric samples free for buyers’ a taking home to consider and deliberate to make calls back for orders! Most of them ship internationally!
I love tweed fabrics. They come in many colours!
Check out those lovely rose designed fur fabrics! So prettyyy and warm looking. ^^
A lot more fur… Those on the bottom right look like wolf/animal inspired!
Cool visually striking graphic fabric.
Animal lovers beware… This looks like a real fox/animal skin with the nose intact. >_<#
China porcelain inspired fabric…Â 
3D inspired graphic fabric…
More graphic fabric…
Then we had a bear-dog sighting! Look at them crossing the street!
Finally managed to get a shot of him looking towards our direction… I wondered where it stayed, considering HK houses are really small…
Another unique fabric… this one’s like a beewax/organic inspired lace fabric.
One last shot of a typical HK fabric market street. 🙂
Then my tutors brought a few of us to visit Hong Kong Poly Uni, before that we had lunch!
This was at Misocool at a mall conveniently located right at the exit of a train station. I forgot which station now. Oops!
 I can’t be sure if I was really hungry or this was really good cause I MEGA LOVED THIS MEAL. If I didn’t remember wrongly, it’s tomato beef soup with salmon flavored rice. It is so awesome I am salivating just as I  am typing this. :'( Anyway you can eat the rice alone or together with the tomato soup! The rice is cooked/baked to be a little crispy on the outside, very awesome!
Then we made our way to HKPU, it’s one of the top University in HK.
We beelined our way to the Institute of Textiles and Clothing, where we met Chanel, the marketing executive lady who brought us around on a tour. 
The laboratory where they conduct research on threads and fabrics…Students having their lab sessions inside.
This is the view of a Zaha Hadid designed new design school wing of HKPU. I am a personal fan of Zaha Hadid and though I would like to argue that countries should support their local designer/artists/architect, I still think it would be uber cool to be studying in a Hadid designed building…
More views of the school…
We enter the Fashion and Textiles Resource Centre which if  I did not remember wrongly,  it is 2 levels deep.
A fabric art work at the entrance of the library…
Students studying/lounging in the library.
Then we walk pass the Intimate Apparels Institute Hall of Fame where award winning works are hung up along the gallery walk way. Love the neon and multi coloured design! ^^
Then we visit more laboratories filled with industry standard machineries. These ones are fabric weaving machines… While we don’t have technical courses in Singapore, HKPU offers technical courses for their students so when they graduate, they would be working in fabric or garment making factories. 
Now for some more interesting photos of fabric moodboards and trend boards…
These fabric samples here are samples of what can be made from the CAD machine, where you input a design and the machine knits out these samples, whole! Amazing, I tell you.
Following the tour, we ended with a 3D, yes 3D I kid you not, show reel of their latest fashion graduate’s show case. It was honestly the most outstanding and jaw dropping fashion showcase I have ever seen, not so much for the design but the presentation of it. Not that the designs were not spectacular, but the presentation blew me away.
A few touristy shots around the campus.. here with some flowers blooming, kekeke.
We had a free night, so Bini and I went touring around our hotel area… Hollywood road is famous for antiques and we did see a handful of antique stores and items…
We chanced a upon a lovely store named Pantry Magic selling designer home wares… coincidentally they also have a branch in Singapore, along Club Street. 🙂
An artsy shot, hehehe, of the HK tram on HK street. ^^v
And another, because this is my blog and cause’ I can, haha. 😛
Look who we met~!!! Chen Hao! Famous HK actor. HEHEHE. 
So happy to see him… Haha!
We came across a mini mall near our hotel.. Not too sure what it’s called but it had a lot of nice setting to cam-spam with. hehe ^^
With lovely nutcracker…
And a British telephone booth! O-hai~! ^^
Ok, now that I came back from London recently, and I did not take pics with London Telephone booth, this photo is proving a little funny. Anyway, the reason we find a lot of Britain inspired aspects in HK is because HK was colonized by the British until their unity with China back in 1997, so HK feels very much like an extension of Britain, albeit in a chinese populated place.
Moreeee UK in HK Telephone Booth pics, kekeke.
I am talking to no-one in particular…
Yes it’s nice to play pretend for the photos.. just like we were young and we play pretend cooking and playing house all the time… ^^
Bestie and her victory sign in the booth~ ^^v
For dinner, we all arrived at Chilli Fagara, touted to be one of HK’s best spicy boutique restaurants.
Address: Shop E, No. 45-53, Graham Street
Take note that it is near the Soho area, as there is another Graham street near Central HK.
This is the meat in lettuce wrap dish. Very yummy.
This is their recommended dish, the Chilli Fagara Chicken dish. Super spicy but oh-so-good! It’s crispy fried chicken prepared with a lot of chilli fargara – the huge chilli flakes you see above. It’s so spicy but deliciously crispy that though your tongue is burning you keep picking up another piece for more!
Here’s 2 shots of us crazy Chilli Fagarettes~ we went crazy battling with chilli. ^^v
And two shots of our meek Crispy Duckettes as they resigned to eating Crispy Duck and posing with it. kekeke. ^^
The restaurant is designed to be very dark and oriental inspired.. Check out some props:
And they won a Trip Advisor cert! I approve! 🙂
A long flight of elevator up the Soho area…
One of the real classy looking restaurant around the Soho area. It is so named Soho as a lot of expatriates and wealthy tourists frequent the area for dinner and after dinner drinks in the night and boutiques opened in the day.
I couldn’t help but LOL-ed when I saw this…. This really really small tiny apartment quite out of nowhere. Look at the number of people below the apartment, it’s literally just 6-8 people wide! o_O This i guess, is a testament to just how tiny HK apartments can get!
Some of the cute boutiques we passed by that was already closed in the night…
And a very HK road side supper/dessert soup store. Too bad we didn’t get to try it!
Ending off with a shot of a cute artshop, named Artitude. Very cool indeed. ^^
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