The reflection of using Blog / Web 2.0

I am not a Blg user before this assignment. For me it is not interesting and neccessary. But after this assignment by using the blogger, i found it is much more interesting than i thought and i had so much fun here with Web 2.0 Blog.

This is absolutely user friendly, it is easy to proccess and access. For me, as a green hand here i can easily find the way of processing . Just a simple click then i can post my photos, my text or vedios on my blog. This blogger with Web 2.0 function, it is more agile for ordinary person to creat their blog without knowing the technic behind. Moreover, it increased people's interaction since the blog could open to all to read and people can leave some comments there.

For Travel and Hospitality industry, Web 2.0 is absolutely a positive way of promoting the business. You don't have to pay high advertising fee  but just creat a blog / Twitter / Facebook. People can access to those web and get information or promotion easily. Also, with the W2.0 function, people can leave messages, post some comments there or put on a "Like" on the web page, this way can also draw more people's attention in order to get more business.

Nowadays, this is a trend in Web processing, most of the airline, hotelier are using Web 2.0 . That will be a good tool for the Industry to promote their business.

Have fun in Yuen Long

The tourist  who visited Hong Kong is just focus on Hong Kong Island or in Kowloon, Yuen Long in the New Territories seems impossibly remote. But as a resident of this neighborhood, I really want to defend Yuen Long's reputation -- this part of Hong Kong is so much fun and should be visited more often.



Yuen Long In the Morning





Hong Kong Island has the tram and the New Territories has the light rail.

Living in Yuen Long, residents have easy access to public transportation, proximity to shopping malls and markets, a distinct food culture, great space, an abundance of outdoor activities, fresh air and greenery. 

Go to Ping Shan Village by light rail to see the Tang Clan's ancestral home along the Ping Shan Heritage Trail. The Tangs were an important family back in the 1900s, and their descendants include famous Hong Kong fashion designer William Tang.

You can have a traditional basin meal to get the full Yuen Long Hakkanese experience. The basin meal is a huge pile of seafood, poultry and root vegetables all cooked together in a savory, briny sauce. The dish is traditionally served at village banquets as a means to quickly feed a whole lot of people.

Strawberry Picking:

Law's Organic Strawberry Farm to pick strawberries. The labor and the tart-sweet fruit was a much needed pick-me-up. The strawberries at Law's Organic Strawberry Farm were quite small but had an intense strawberry flavor.

Dirt biking sounded like a perfect sedentary yet thrilling activity.  The HK$240  paid for  bikes includes an all-you-can-eat barbecue for four hours. It’s so much more spacious than barbecuing in the city.. It includes two drinks and all sorts of meat and vegetables.

Visitors could buy some souvenirs. Everyone should stocks up on a few boxes of Hang Heung wife cakes and Ho To Tai egg noodles before heading home.

How To Get There:

Authentic Yuen Long Family Restaurant: M/F, Transport Plaza, 2-6 Fung Cheung Road, Yuen Long, New Territories; tel: +852 2475 1333; open Monday–Sunday: 6am-12am; www.honoraryfamily.com

Ping Shan Traditional Basin Meal: G/F., No. 36 Tong Fong Tsuen, Ping Shan, Yuen Long (next to Ping Shan Heritage Trail); tel.: +852 2617 8000 (telephone booking available); open 9am-9pm.

Kai Bo Supermarket: Shop 2 & 3, G/F., Tung Yik Bldg., No. 8 Yu King Square, Yuen Long, N.T.; tel: +852 2470 9203; open Monday–Sunday: 7:30am–9pm; www.kaibo.com.hk.

Ping Shan Heritage Trail: Ping Shan, Yuen Long; tel:+852 2721 2326; Tang Ancestral Hall open 9am-1pm, 2-5pm, closed on the first three days of Chinese New Year; Tsui Shing Lau open 9am-1pm, 2-5pm, closed on Tuesdays, the first day of January, the first three days of Chinese New Year and December 26.

Law’s Organic Strawberry Farm: 1st section of bridge, Pak Sha Tsuen, Yuen Long (元朗白沙村第一段橋頭落車，按路牌指示，步行幾分鐘就到); tel: +852 2470 7981; email: strawberry_hkyl@yahoo.com.hk; www.yl.hk/lawsb.

MX Club: No 30, Fung Ka Wai, Tin Tsz Road, Tin Shui Wai, Yuen Long, N.T.; tel: +852 2668 0948; open Tuesday-Sunday: 10am-6pm, barbecue until late; email: info@mxclub.com.hk; www.mxclub.com.hk.

Ho To Tai Noodle Shop: No.67, Fau Tsoi St, Yuen Long; tel +852 2476 2495; open 8am-8pm;

Hang Heung Cake Shop: 64 Castle Peak Road, Yuen Long; tel: +852 2479 2141; open Monday–Sunday: 6am-10pm.



Sources: http://www.cnngo.com/hong-kong/play/day-yuen-long-new-territories-913714

Hong Kong's Traditional Culture - Yum Cha

Yum cha ( traditional Chinese: 飲茶), also known as Ban ming (品茗), is a Chinese style morning or afternoon tea, which involves drinking Chinese tea and eating dim sum dishes. Yum cha in Cantonese literally means "drink tea", while ban ming is a more poetic "tasting of tea".

dim sum (點心) refers to the wide range of small dishes, whereas yum cha, or "drinking tea", refers to the entire meal.

 

 

Yum cha is an integral part of Hong Kong's culinary culture.

A cup of steaming fresh tea is the perfect complement to many sumptuous dishes or dim sum.

Having a Chinese Dim Sum meal is an absolute must for any visitor to Hong Kong. While the choices of dim sum places ranges from rather grundgy local places to upmarket hotels, Serenade Chinese Restaurant combines a pleasant atmosphere and spectacular view with some pretty decent trolley cart served dim sum.

 

This is the old style for selling the dim sum, staffs will  trundled arround with the trolley which is full of dim sum.  Guests can stop the trolley and take the dim sum, and the staff will give a chop on the "dim sum card".

 

Nowadays, you can just tick what you want on the paper menu.

 

 



Here with some DimSum Recommendation and teach you how to pronounce the name of dim sum in Cantonese:

http://www.discoverhongkong.com/eng/jsp/dimsum/dimsum-guide-index.jsp

 

 

 

Ref:  http://www.virtualtourist.com/travel/Asia/Hong_Kong/Restaurants-Hong_Kong-ChineseDim_Sum-BR-1.html#ixzz1XqQlvEcK

http://www.google.com.hk/search?q=%E9%A3%B2%E8%8C%B6&hl=zh-TW&rlz=1T4ADFA_enHK415HK415&prmd=imvns&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=hm1vTvKjOIujiAfeptGqCQ&ved=0CEcQsAQ&biw=1366&bih=498

Nice Place for Chatting and Relaxing dining

Oyster 18This restaurant is located in Tin Hau :

天后清風街18號地下

 
 small oyster bar The oysters are fresh and taste good!
Cream Brulee -- really impressed!Scallop Angel hair with squid saucePrawn & Mussell angel hair Napoleon with Mango - This is really a must try Item! Don't miss it!  Total : HKD 650 each. The price looks like hotel price, but it is worth in terms of the food & services. We all had an enjoyable night..   

Mid Autumn festival 2011 in Hong Kong

Happy Mid Autumn Festival !!!

Carnival at Victoria Park in Hong Kong


Mid-Autumn Moonlight, more lights will continue to open to the public to enjoy the festive atmosphere. The Carnival today at Tin Shui Wai Park and Ginza Plaza; Mid-Autumn Festival tomorrow night, then at Victoria Park; day after chasing moonlight, Sha Tin Park and Sha Tin Town Hall Plaza lights are also active. The lantern has wonderful performances, including the Henan Shaolin martial arts troupe brings, dance and acrobatics.

Among them, the Victoria Park show multiple sets of bright lights, including a teacher from the local paper-making giant bar revolving door "Harbour View. Courtesy of a thousand miles," there are a number of "touching, now Hong Kong" in the title of the lantern, painted Liyuan and other sixties and seventies the collective memory of Hong Kong. The HKTB also exhibited the same field a high 16.6 meters, 34 meters long and 9.6 meters wide super-giant fish lanterns.


Enjoy the most beautiful moonlight of the the year !

Ref: http://hk.apple.nextmedia.com/template/apple/art_main.php?iss_id=20110911&sec_id=4104&subsec_id=11867&art_id=15603659

Travel to Hong Kong - Outlying Island

Let's stay with the nature and relaxing in Outlying Island!

Tai O Fishing Village:

Is the old fishing village with a long history, the salt production was the major industry in Tai O. back in the Sung Dynasty about a thousand years ago. Most famous for its wooden stilt houses along the water front. The traditional fishing village with its tiny shops, shrines, local market and fishing junks.

How to Get There:

1. Catch ferry from Central Pier 6 (MTR Hong Kong Station Exit E1. Walk through ifc mall) to Mui Wo, then bus 1 to Tai O.
2. MTR Tung Chung Station, then bus 11 from Tung Chung Town Centre.

Cheung Chau - Pak Tai Temple

 Was Built in 1783, the oldest temple on the island. takes just 10minutes’ walk from the pier. There are Still some historically important antiques in the temple, so is a worth to visit.The internationally famous “Bun Festival” is held right in front of the temple every year.
Hot to Get There:

What is “Bun Festival “?

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• Said to be a hundred years history, every year in May all people on the island  must kept vegetarian diet for three days, at the [非強制換行符號]last  day  the  procession  held .   When midnight  came  hundreds  young  men hurried up to the three bun towers,  torn off all the buns, put them in bag or spread them  over  the  crowd.  The  festival  itself  is  an  combination of[非強制換行符號]praying to gods, ganged together, and to navigate the lost spirits.

Cheung Chau – Cheung Po Tsai Cave

Cheung Po Tsai Was a pirate and legend said he had once hidden in Cheung Po Tsai Cave and hidden his treasure there, the cave is located on the southwestern peninsula of the island of Cheung Chau.

How To Get to Cheung Chau:

Catch ferry from Central Pier 5 (MTR Hong Kong Station Exit E1. Walk through ifc mall).

Lamma (Sok Kwu Wan) – Fish Spawning Ground  is the largest fish spawning grounds in Hong Kong, a place for visitors to see how the former fishing villages looked.

Lamma (Sok Kwu Wan) – Tin Hau Temple

Tin Hau Temple is more than 150 years history.There are two antiques inside which were cast in the 6th year of Daoguang reign (1826) while the spade was cast in the 21st year of Guangxu reign(1895)
 

Lamma (Sok Kwu Wan) – Lamma Fisherfolk’s Village

 Fisherfolk’s Village is a showcase of the local fishfolk culture and the history of fishery industry in the Hong Kong.Occupying an area of over 20000 square feet, the Village comprise authentic fishing junk, traditional dragon boats, and exhibition hall, themed folklore booths, fishing rafts and dwellings.Visitor can learn and appreciate the heritages and livings of the boat community of Hong Kong.


How to get to Lamma Island:
Take a ferry to Yung Shue Wan or Sok Kwu Wan (about a 30-minute trip) from Central Pier 4 (MTR Hong Kong Station Exit E1. Walk through ifc mall).

Sources: https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKICObZpCxvMwqCAkxWVvJm3BuLRXAVC03dbieHnHIRQZzPJJOjaGFBv0i5rKduj6awGRaWASfnqLkypNmauNZ394sBR2T888LdtA7BPaXBqY3KYe67Ttr5dijh53lwoDw8zYi_dymWNc/s1600/53_CheungChauBunFestival_PNG.jpg
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