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^Pretty much what I did this winter break.
Ngong Ping 360 Cable Car - Bought the Crystal Cable Car ticket (the one with clear glass bottom). Pretty cool experience, something to try at least once.
This takes you to the Big Buddha, you can go up the stairs, explore that little small village and that's about it. Oh yea, tons of cute pretend-stray dogs that just sleep everywhere, it's pretty cool.
When you come down, you can go shop at the Citygate Outlets since it is at the MTR station/Ngong Ping Station. Some cheap stuff there but not THAT cheap. Too many obnoxious mainlanders with rolling luggages there when I went that just don't give 2 fucks about your feet or your existence.
Ocean Park: Go to Admirality(?) Station and you can take the bus straight to Ocean Park. There are some people selling tickets in the MTR entrance and outside the MTR station where the bus is. From what I recall, Ocean Park sells tickets for like 320 HKD, the guy outside the station sold it for 300 HKD, and the guy inside the station sold it for 290 HKD. When you go to Ocean Park, just feel free to roam around, lots of cool things to see like the Panda's (there are two exhibits, one with monkeys + 2 pandas and one with pandas + red panda which is kawaii as fuck). I suggest going to the bird show and the dolphin show which is when you go up the cable car to the top. Sadly, I wasn't able to get into that new show on the bottom part of the park which is supposed to be like Cirque Du Soleil? Food at the park is fucking expensive as fuck, instead of eating at an expensive fast food stand, we opted to go to the cafe/restaurant beside the cable car terminal at the top of the park. We got a table outside on the patio that overlooked the whole water, it was pretty badass.
Mong Kok is just a clusterfuck of people. I kind of enjoyed roaming inside the small shopping centres in MK that are slightly hidden. There was one that was underground and had a lot of cool trinkets you can buy as souvenirs. Also, if you go to ladies market don't buy the USB's even though they look cool, they are pretty much don't work 99% of the time.
You can also give Tim Ho Wan (添好運點心專門店) a try. I am not sure of the locations, but I know there is one in IFC Basement, and Olympian City (MK one closed down). This is the cheapest Michelin star dim sum place, always people that line up etc.
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