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Shopping at Hong Kong's APM Mall

I travelled over to the new APM mall today. The mall is really something, large, new, and flashy. Very impressive and busy. I don't remember how many levels there were but there were a lot. My roommate's cousin stayed over last night, he taught me how to play some playstation gundam game this morning. I think I actually beat him once, but most of the time I wasn't exactly sure what was going on. He wanted to look for a new bag, and I was in the market for a new bag myself since I brought some 6 year old messenger bag with me to Hong Kong. So my roommate Ceci, her cousin Alex and I travelled together.

Oh shopping is a bad idea for me. I think if Wendy was with me it would have been worst. I picked up a cheap green and white Adidas wrist band first. I was looking at this set of DC wrist bands but at $80 that really wasn't worth it. I meant to just use it as an accessory. I had something in mind for a while and I wanted to build it up. We stopped at a few shops to look at shoes and bags and ended up at Porter. Porter sells Astroboy, or should I say Tezuka Productions Astro Boy, items aside from their bags. The new style t-shirts are similar to the one Sunny bought in Japan. I had 3 that I really liked, but after trying them on, and thinking about my budget I ended up splurging on one of them. The t-shirts are $350 HKD each (unless you have a membership, but of course I don't have one) which makes this probably the most expensive t-shirt I ever bought. This is the first time I used EPS and it is very convient. I found out the system is quite fast so I could see all my transactions for the day when I got home that evening.

We sat down afterwards and I had some Hong Kong peanut butter toast and some Hong Kong bubble tea. I really didn't find anything special about the toast aside from that it was really really fat. Am I just being too critical of Hong Kong? My roommate thinks it has just been difficult choosing places to take me to eat because I seem overly picky about everything. I wonder if this is related to my culture shock? I like desserts in general, and I heard about the peanut butter french toast like snack from my older cousin Ethel a while back. It didn't really live up to my expectations.

We went afterwards to an area close by that had this factory outlet shops. We were looking for t-shirts and shoes. I ended up paying $200 HKD for a pair of white high-top Converse shoes. They have a green trim on it. As you can see, I'm trying to bring in the green this summer for myself. There were so many floors to explore and we gave the sales people a hard time. I really couldn't decide between buying the white and green Converse or the white and green Adidas shoes. There was one little thing in the adidas shoe that I didn't really like, and it was $100 more. The Converse were safe and a much needed replacement for my old Etnies. We ended off the day with a very basic meal of street bought BBQ Pork, and my famous plain steamed Brocolli.

posted by Tempest7 @ 10:00