First Impressions of Hong Kong in 2024 🇭🇰
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- čas přidán 27. 07. 2024
- British couple's first impressions of Hong Kong
Watch as Jack and Paige take on Hong Kong in a 4 part mini series, exploring in depth the city of Hong Kong. In this video you we capture our first impressions of this special administrative region of the People's Republic of China. We start by grabbing a coffee and are shocked at the prices, before heading over to The Star Ferry and sail over the Victoria Harbour from Hong Kong Island to Kowloon. Brunch is the done thing in HK so we go to Shine Island Cafe, a highly recommended spot for tourists and locals alike. We order all the best parts of the menu, the famous Pineapple Bun, Satay noodles, Cold Hong Kong Milk tea and a mysterious omelette? After a filling brunch we take a walk and discover an old church, and try to reach to top of one of Hong Kong's famous towering buildings.
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⚡Timestamps:
00:00 - British Couple First Impressions (SHOCKED AT PRICES) 😱
07:21 - Taking The Star Ferry Across Victoria Harbour ⛵️
16:05 - First Time Trying Hong Kong Breakfast 🍍❓
27:36 - Exploring an Old British Evangelical Church ⛪️
30:12 - Sneaking up to Hong Kong View Point 🤫
Thanks for coming by Hong Kong! I really enjoyed watching your videos. Just wanted to add that bacon and eggs are actually very much part of a traditional Hong Kong breakfast, because we’ve adopted a lot of Western foods into our diet. At home we sometimes have Western style breakfast like eggs, ham, sausages, cheese, bread, oatmeal etc., and at other times we have the more traditional Chinese kind like congee and Chinese style eggs and pickles and other traditional side dishes. There are actually restaurants that serve this kind of traditional Chinese breakfast (I would recommend going to older districts like Happy Valley or Wan Chai). The place that you showed in your video is more of a 1950s kind of Hong Kong diner (born from that era), serving Western-inspired Hong Kong style food, but the food served there is more like fast-food than a traditional meal. I personally don’t know anyone who has egg tarts for breakfast (so I would say it is not really a breakfast food), but milk tea definitely is a staple here! 😁 I feel that Kowloon has a different culture from Hong Kong Island, and when most people think of Hong Kong, they associate it with the Kowloon culture. In any case, I hope you enjoyed your experience here! Thank you for visiting our city!
Thanks for visiting my city - subscribed after seeing your other China videos. Enjoy the time in HK, Food is great, transport is easy. Naturally lots of British influence, so you will see alot of reminders of UK/home.
The toast and omelette comes with the satay noodles, which is a typical Hk breakfast set!
😀😀😀😀 welcome to my city 😃😃😃😃
Since Hong Kong was a British Colony, a popular type of Hong Kong breakfast is as the lady showed in the menu, eggs, sausages, bread etc. Ofc there are the congee and Chinese doughnuts. You get the best of both worlds!
At the end, it's just a fancy Chinese restaurant. Not just for corporates or weddings, but get togethers, family meals etc.
welcome to hk!
Thanks for sharing about Hongkong. Eventhough I lived in Shenzhen for 10 years and went to Hongkong just for travel, but Hongkong is still a very special place for me, charming history and culture. I wish more peolple can come to visit Hongkong!
歡迎來香港旅遊，你們可以試下香港美食。
波蘿油、西多士，叉燒、燒鵝、飲茶，大排檔廣東小炒，食海鮮，飲鴛鴦，飲奶茶，港式火鍋，燒乳鴿，雞粥，鼓油王炒麵，
❤❤❤❤❤❤👏👏👏👍👍👏👏👍👍❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️👏👏👏👍👍👍 Love Hong kong!!!!
Thank you ❤ for a great vlog!!!!!
Great video as always
Thanks for sharing jake and paige. I have only been to hongkong Airport when I was transit through and definately noticed the cost difference. I was traveling from chengdu to Auckland and transit through hongkong.
Welcome to HK, Jack and Anynsley. You found the place which is a pier for travelling to Macau by Jet boat. Also, It is not a river. There is a waterfront named, Hong Kong Victoria Harbour
@@eycoregamer7143 Hongkong is lacking of land and eventually the Victoria harbour will become Victoria river after several times of reclaimations.
Hi Jack and page good to see you and how are you I am very excited welcome back
Quite interesting to watch British to visit my home town. I visited Newcastle in April and living in Leeds now. Cheers!
Your first Hong Kong breakfast was really Hong Kong style, especially the Satay Beef noodle, the set Ham Omelette as well as the iced milk tea. Hope to see your next HK video soon!
Very cute video but I have to say I couldn’t stop laughing when I saw you went to the wrong ferry pier🤣🤣
I would recommend going to Hong Kong island, Victoria peak, big wave bay, big Buddha, deep water bay, repulse bay, dragons back, Stanley fort, shek o, sai kung country park, discovery bay & so much more
Iloveyou both you both are really very adorable
19:43 now that is a traditional Hong Kong breakfast, let me explain
if you go to traditional cha chaan tengs (translates to tea restaurant, basically a Hong Kong style cafe), especially some really old ones, you’ll find that there are usually always 4 sets
The “breakfast” is macaroni with ham
The “lunch” is spaghetti in soup with char siu
The “special” is satee beef noodles
The “express meal” is rice noodles with preserved vegetables with some pork
You can actually request a different type of noodle (instant noodles/rice noodles/macaroni) when ordering
These four sets all come with a type of egg, omelette/pan fried/sunny side up/scrambled, can also be changed upon request if they have
And also bread, whether that would be just plain white bread, toast, or 餐包, I don’t really know how to explain the last one but it’s basically a bun with butter inside
Oh yes, you also get coffee or tea (but actually it just means drinks in a more elegant way, there’s lemon tea, lemonade (lemon and water lol), milk tea, and then you get to obscure ones like Sai Yeung Choi Honey, and classics like ovaltine or Horlicks, hot or cold)
That is a complete HK style quick breakfast
Usually I also order egg tarts for a kinda sweet treat
Welcome to Hong Kong. Be sure to go to Lan Kwai Fong in the evening, it’s very lively!
Sometimes don't be fooled by Chinese menu names, For example, pineapple buns do not have pineapples, and wife cakes do not have wives😊
remind me to cancel my wife cake order 😆
Just like hot dogs have no dogs and Toad in the hole don’t have toads.
@@JackAynsleyTravel I wants ask to you mr jack in my you tube picture in your oppinion this guy same like pure chinese or same chinese mixed with white eurupe ?
@@JackAynsleyTravel😂😂😂
Beef WELLINGTON is just BARE FACED LIES!😡😡😡
Hong kong , we love this place so much❤
Amazing
Welcome to HK. Yes prices a bit steep comapre to China, but qullaity is usually very good. FInd the right spots for food based on local ifoodies and you be in for treats!
LMAO, you lamost went to Macau!!
You shoulda went uptairs on the ferry where you may get a better view!
For an authentic HK Breakfast, go to more local Cha Chan Tang. Chinese milk tea is a must try. I recommend Australian Diary Company which I will go ofrom time to time. But you guys did well enough~~ Enjoy the HK style Bkft!
My sis used to go to Andrews Church when she was young some 50 plus years ago!
Thank you for the recommendations! Really appreciate it and thoroughly enjoyed reading your comment. All the best!
@@JackAynsleyTravel Hi Jack, really enjoy with videos a lot! I have left a comment on your FB page, if you need some recommendation for hole in the wall places in HK, give me a shout. I have more than 50 years of info packed in my bag of food delicacies in HK~
Great tourist selfies!
For a typical Hong Kong breakfast, you shall try the Australia Dairy Company in Jordan not far from Tsim Sha Tsui. The cafe is famous for their super fast efficient service. The church you visited is an Anglican Church which I visited there often in those old days.
The classic HK breakfast is just instant noodle with milk tea ! The inspiration from refugees era 😂
that not river man. that's sea. take the ferry at night time has great scenery. enjoy your trip anyway.
Love your videos its coming home ❤❤❤
You went to the wrong ferry terminal initially: that was the Hong Kong / Macau ferry terminal. Luckily you found the right ferry terminal! BTW, you are walking on the harbour promenade where I go jogging all the time!😊😊
enjoying your video. I lived in Shenzhen and travel to HK very often. actually the place you guys take off is "downtown", central, and Tongluowan
The bread and egg is of the same set with the noodles... we usually call such kind of thing as "common meal" 「常餐」One of your drink should be included in the set package (but quite probably need HK$2 extra for a cold drink)
And pineapple bun should be much better with a piece of butter within 😂😂😂 「菠蘿油」
And Alipay HK is totally compatible with Alipay. We all use this when weekend travel to Shenzhen 😂😂😂😂
Welcome to Hk !! The noodles and egg &bread are one set !! It means this set are include bread , egg and noodles , and one drinks 🥤
I visited Hong Kong 6 months ago, and it was amazing. For a 360-degree view of the city, check out the Sky 100 Observation Deck. Man, I really miss the milk tea and egg tarts so delicious!
Welcome to my hometown HK, enjoy your stay 💓👍🏻
Welcum to HK. Think the piece of toast and omelette come with the satay beef noodles. Enjoy!
Tips for taking the ferry to Kowloon:
1. Just say you want to go to the Star Ferry; then they shouldn't guide you to the wrong place.
2. The upper deck is available but at a higher price (and from a different entrance) since you get to avoid the smell and noise of the engines, and the AC is available on two ends of the upper deck.
Cute couple enjoying HK , in going back in Octobers taking my two kids to see family there , have dim sum for breakfast also get out of 26:44 the touristy place for food and get to go where locals eat enjoy Hk
Great video as always chaps, two coffee's on Warwick St. Worthing costs nigh on £8 😮
Thanks for Minteh by the way 😊
That's extortionate! Thanks for watching again. Treat Minteh well, he's going to be one of the best wingers in the world in the next few years, it's a shame we had to sell, but 35M profit on someone who never even wore a Newcastle shirt will never be turned down haha
1. you should have got to the Star Ferry upper deck instead, just a little more pennies; 2. To get good view of the harbour, should go to IFC, or ICC, or the Peak on a sunny day; 3. Should visit Fish Market, Ladies Street, Temple Street, Sport Shoes Street, ... to feel real local atmosphere. 😃
Mark Twain wrote,"Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime."
Well said!
Everything is more expensive in Hong Kong, but China doesn't force its will on Hong Kong, hence the 1 country 2 systems policy. Same with Macao. Also even within the mainland, there are autonomous regions so the locals are free to do what they want, adopt mainland policy, or keep their system as they wish.
Considering HK has the most expensive housing market in the world, idk why they are keeping their system tbh but it’s their choice in the end
@@brandonchauinfo Old habits die hard I guess... change is not easy sometimes even if it's for the better 🤷
@@brandonchauinfo In line with that logic, Tokyo or Singapore or NYC or basically any international metropolis should become communist. Considering they all have expensive housing markets compared to China so 🤷♂️
人工高的地方，物價一定高，相輔相成
@@brandonchauinfo你知道特首的人工多少？是否香港人的工資都向大陸看齊？
Great video, very relaxing vibe. I am visiting Hong Kong these days as well, this is really a vibrant city isn't it?
Hi guys hope you having a great time in Hong Kong it's star ferry that you need and it's so cheap to use it
Welcome to Hong kong.
Our traditional Pineapple bun do not have the pineapple😂
and is just the name of that.
And installed the Octoups apps in iPhone is very smart as octopus is very convenience to travel, eat & shopping in Hong Kong.
And I love your video.
Welcome to HK!!! Enjoy your stay..
I absolutely love videos about Hong Kong, I'd love to visit and explore. I'd also like to go into the mainland but I was reading that as a full British passport holder I'd need a visa so will have to look into that, would sort of just want to cross over to explore for a few days while in Hong Kong. Enjoy your travels 👍🏻😃.
nice video, welcome to Hong Kong
LONG time visitor to Hong Kong here!
It’s undoubtedly undergone much change in the last 30 years
Coffee shop culture is a relatively new thing there (you’ll notice very few if any local older people in the shops)
Prices for many things improve significantly the further away from the centre you get
The women on the streets on a Sunday are domestic helpers (part nanny / part servant) who work in peoples homes (there’s about 300000 of them in the city)
Still there? Visit an outlying island (I’d recommend Cheung Chau - pier 5 : walk left from where you joined the ferry in this video)
Visit the New Territories (Tai Po Market is a favourite of mine - it’s on the light blue line and you can go straight there from Admiralty on Hong Kong Island)
Enjoy!
The Satay beef noodle + scrambled egg and toast are the breakfast set 😋 Good choice 👍🏻 Hope you enjoy the HK trip but not the weather😅🥵
Enjoy your trip in Hong Kong.
Welcome to Hong Kong ❤️. Do try the Dim Sum here 😋.
Interesting video
Welcome to Hong Kong
Love you from Karachi Pakistan. God bless you and your family
welcome to HK! I saw you guys went to the restaurant located in Jordan, I went there couple of times. It just opened last year, mainly do business with mainland chinese tourists. this restaurant has so many chains in Kowloon and New Territories. The Pineapple bun is pretty good i sometimes buy take away from there. You also can ask Pineapple buns with butter next time. For the milk tea or coffee should try hot ones, much better taste then iced ones. For the star ferry, since you paid for lower decker, so its not allowed to go upstairs, as its a bit more for upper decker, with difference entrance with more $. The one you entered is a complex between shopping malls and office, I go there sometimes. I guess you shot this video is during June not July, as these two weeks weather mostly sunny but super hot. June rained alot. Hope you two had fun exploring HK!
Hi Jack, welcome your back to my hometown, enjoy your times.👍👍👍
Hello Geordie , Welcome to Hong Kong!
Check out the the islands like Lamma, Lantau etc
welcome to Hong Kong 🇭🇰!😊😊😊
Have a good day!
Hey Jack, book a table for drinks at The Ozone bar at the top of the Ritz Carlton, you wont be disappointed. Me and the missus were there recently, unbelievable views ( assuming not cloudy) also visit the peak by tram 👍
A good place to visit
Welcome to Hong Kong🎉
You can try the local food and which is Afford able price or relatively cheaper.
Those who coming outdoors and sitting on ground every Sundays are actually domestic workers from the Philippines and Indonesia.
Hope you have a great time enjoying the food
That egg tart looks very similar to a Portuguese custard tart. IIRC, i think they call them St.John's 29:57 tarts in Portugal. I had them in Lisbon yrs ago.
Definitely a COE church. No stations of the cross around the walls.
It does and yes some cafe in Hong Kong also make Portuguese custard tart
welcome to my homeland. the omelet is a set with the beef noodles and a drink, I miss them so much ❤
Paige loved the noodles, I think she would go back just to eat them again
You should take time to visit West Kowloon (M+ museum, HK Palace, Xiqu Centre, West Kowloon Park etc)
Welcome to HK, enjoy your stay
Thanks for visiting HK❤
Welcome to HK! It’s great here. Try kayaking in Sai Kung!
I love Hong Kong and I'd been living in Hong Kong since I was born, but I relocated myself to the UK a few years ago. Real estate price is insane there, you may go to the street side real estate agency to check out the price, other than this, everything else is great.
The experience of going to a restaurant for breakfast was so similar to what I experienced, the attitude of the waiters in Hong Kong restaurants is really average, it turns out that they don't just have a bad attitude towards Chinese people, it's the same for everyone!
Just fast paced
香港餐厅服务态度是出名的，无论大陆本地外国都是同等服务😂！除非星级酒店！
港式服務😂
感觉大家都好忙啊！真的有那么忙吗！而且每个餐馆每位服务生好像都很忙！以至于忙的都顾此失彼了😢
@@kapk其它地方节奏也快，这不是一个好借口
I live in Hong Kong and for these kinds of breakfast meals it comes with extra things
Love from INDIA 🇮🇳
Love?
@@roro4787 yes love from india
@@SahilYadav-xz3pu It should be 'like' rather than 'love' as usual.
@@user-ih7cc3bc9q oh you only know the meaning of love like lovers or stuff ,love also means love like a fan of brother or sister uff,your English 🙏🏻
@@SahilYadav-xz3pu Ha ha, hopefully India is a country full of love. ❤️💕 However, the vloger hoping for your supportance, the "likes" 💪, rather than the loves. 😍
Go and visit the big Buddha and take the cable car up there amazing views. Also do Victoria peak nice view from the top
Welcome to Hong Kong and love that NUFC kit🖤🤍
welcome to Tibet, in future, i am Tibet travel agency, and your big fan
33:08 it's a mix of hotel (Hyatt?) and residential (called The Masterpiece). Below that building is another mall called K11 Art Mall
welcome to HK!
Welcome to HK❤
My god, what a mess with your breakfast 😂 Jack, you are being nice: pineapple bun tastes pineapple🤣 Anyway, you are both nice people. 😄 By the way, it seems really noisy in the streets.
Have you tried the chicken tail bun? It is like hot dog bun stuff with sweet coconut fillings. In Chinese it is called "鸡尾包". My father always buys this bun when I was young.
@2:03 Not river 🤣 @10:20 that pier is to Macau. @18:00 Well the rent is super expensive in Hong Kong and not easy to find waitress in Hong Kong..they are not rude but very busy that's all...All good. P.S. there are 2 kinds of egg tart- cookie crust and flaky crust.
The mark of a good vlogger is how much time they're willing to donate to the topic, for the viewers to see new things, as opposed to filming their own fizog over & over again.
0:21 my grandma literally lives in the building behind and my school is near here, I like this neighbourhood (Sai Ying Pun)
Hongkong is a international city, its'financial system is tighed up with the west. So everything is expensive, as cost of living in the world is pretty high.
Yes it’s used to be
@@chanvictor566 still is as Hong Kong has both Christmas and Buddha birthday public holidays lol
@@chanvictor566I know you bro🥲
Canny video, I love Hong Kong but haven't been back after China kicked off and there were protests all over the place. I will get back there eventually. I wonder if you try the sprite with the plum thing in it in your next vid. That is mega and difficult to get here.
I saw a comment from you on Twitter that you might be going to Tokyo to watch the Toon, if you are it'll be good to bump into you both. Enjoy the rest of your stay in Hong Kong.
Been to HK for the umpteenth times and just visited again last month. After the unrests followed by Covid, I feel HK has somewhat changed but can't quite pinpoint what (maybe less international now?).
It may have something to do with the riots that Steve Bannon and Guo Wengui started and lived streamed on the internet.
Welcome to HK, she is really different from mainland China.
Noodle and egg is a set which include a drink ，that is cheaper than that you order 5 dishes。
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You went to the wrong boat, you need to go to the Star Ferry besides that there are 2 classes. You choose the lower deck.
The service at the restaurant is normal, a few waiters have to serve many tables.
Hong Kong is a beautiful, friendly and safe city.
Yes, things are quite expensive in general here, but u can also find something with cheap price here.
Hello! I'm Newcastle Fans from HK also brought the home kit set from UK offical online store. Welcome!
Oh Mint, this was last seasons that I picked up in Bangkok! I got the new one too when I was in Bali, its so good
Thanks for showcasing my home town!! But do NOT go this time, it's way toooo hot!! best time would be in later October all the way to Late February!
18:11 the waiter is a newbie and inexperienced, the waitress had to take over to help the customer change the type of rice. Hence she was distracted. The omlette and toast is probably part of a set meal for the beef noodles, which also comes with a drink
Ah I didn't know that! We thought we had been given it by mistake because the table next to us said to the waiter they were missing their omelette😅
it is an usual practice that the noodle+omelette+drink set costs less than if you order them seperately
thx
Hong Kong island is the other side of Victoria harbour, it's the sea and not a river.🏝️
10:32 for the ts sound, just think of it like a balloon loosing air, “tssssssss”, but for “Tsui”, in English it’s just ch + schwa sound (uh) + ee, so here’s how you pronounce it: tssssssim sha chuhee