There is a Taiji class today that starts at 6.30am in the hotel, which Craig will never wake up at this time for such activity. There is another class conducted by the Hong Kong tourism board by the water at 8am and Craig can't be bothered for this as well. We missed the opportunity to make it in time for the Ngong Ping 360 tour that starts at 11.30am but ticketing has to be done by 10.45am. Because today is Good Friday, the queue for the cable car is extremely long. It took us nearly 40mins to get our cable car tickets. Those people who had purchase their tickets in advance gets the express lane to the cable car. We decided to get the standard tickets which is $115HKD return per adult. The cable car ride took about 25mins to reach Ngong Ping village.
Very long queue for the cable car ride
and the queue continues at the ticketing area
and continue again at the cable car boarding area
Ngong Ping Cable car
view of the Giant Buddha from cable car ride
Tingy enjoying his cable car rideFirst and only stop to the Giant Buddha. I think this is my 3rd visit to the Giant Buddha. We didn't hang around too long as we are hungry for our vegetarian meal. We've got the general meal, which cost $60. More waiting at the restaurant but the food came out very quickly. The food is really tasty and I think they should give lesser rice unless more is requested. There's still a lot left after we both had 2 bowls of rice each. Craig thinks they reused the remaining rice. I doubt it.
At the foot of the Giant Buddha
Tingy did the climb too!
Long queue again for a seat in the vegetarian 
Our 2 pax meals. Yummy!!Because we left the place pretty early there isn't a long queue for the cable car ride back.
Nice view on the return cable car ride
There's still a massive queue for the cable car!!Citygate is next to the MTR station and it's well advertised as a shopping discount outlet mall. The retail shops at Citygate isn't that cheap as everyone claims. Note that is only one money changer on the basement level 2 and his rates are very bad.
Next stop, we headed to Central and caught a ride on the tram. I always find the "Ding Ding" very interesting and there's so many sights to see while on the tram. There are many lines that go to different places and it's a flat fee of $2HKD anywhere. We just jump on the 1st one that came and it brought us to Happy Valley. We took the tram back to Central again and hop on the Bus 15 to the peak. The driver is either rushing for time or busting for a pee. He was driving like a nut case. There is a lady in the front row of us and she is terrified during the journey up to the Peak. Again, because it's public holiday, there's just crowds everywhere. The queue for the tram was really long and because it's only a single way up and down, it takes a long time. It was just about to get dark so we caught the non-lighted and lighted version of the city. Craig didn't want to queue up for the tram so we caught the bus back to Central again.
For the next hour, we are on a wild goose chase for Dim Sum to have for dinner. Note to all, we had been to 3 restaurants that was recommended in food blogs and despite the information that Dim Sum is provided till late, it is NOT. These restaurants stop serving Dim Sum after around 3pm. We end up back at TST, at Tsui Wah for dinner. Craig had the club sandwich which he said it isn't too bad and I had their famous fish ball noodles soup, which I think it's really good and cheap too ($28HKD)!! Being a glutton, I've also ordered their shrimp wanton soup, which i don't think it's very nice. I actually suspect there's MSG used in this dish.
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