This was originally supposed to be Day 5, but we swapped up the plan because the weather forecast for Sunday was rain, rain, and more rain. For today, it was semi-rain so we knew this was the best chance for us especially when hiking in the open weather is involved.

The first thing to do before starting on the hike is to fuel up on a heavy meal first and we traveled down to Honolulu Cafe at Wan Chai to grab some egg tarts and back up bites. They still have one of my favourite egg tarts in Hong Kong, and I highly recommend them!

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Next, we went to Tin Hau to try out Sister Wah for their famous Michelin star beef brisket noodles that the mister wanted to try. Be warned that you’ll need to prepare for a queue here and we waited around 20-25 mins before being able to enter the shop.

The portions are relatively big, and they are generous with the noodles so a small eater can actually share like what I did. We ordered one Signature beef brisket noodles and added on beef balls and wanton so that we could try out different items.

Additionally, we also ordered the soya bean (one of my fave I’ve tried so far!), veggies for some fibre and fried chicken wings (meh). In a nutshell, the beef brisket noodles were great, silky hor fun Noodles in a nice clear beef broth soup and the beef brisket were nice and tender.

From there, you need to hop back to the train to Shau Kei Wan station and then to the bus terminus to look for Bus 9 that can take you directly to the start of the Dragon’s Back trail.

Note that you can opt to start from the two different sections (the easy one/or the other end). Use Google maps or spy for the stop with the solar powered public toilets and that’s your correct starting zone.

Then you can embark on your hike, but do make sure you choose the correct route. It’s all nicely marked out so don’t worry about getting lost. In our case, we wanted to do the full hike and end up at Big Wave Beach as our end point for the day!

And thus, begins our hike to Dragon’s Back – something I wanted to do on my bucket list! This would be the Mister’s second time scaling the hike, but his first time completing the entire one too, so let’s go!!

I’ll admit that it’s slightly tougher than hiking in Singapore, moderately tough but not super super tough cos the harder parts are scaling up and down the “dragon back scales”/rocks especially during the wet weather as there were occasional rain showers/downpours. An umbrella is crucial in this case so please do pack one and check the weather. Also had some help from the mister to push myself up, get over some rocks so I’m thankful. Be really careful as well during the wet weather as the rocks are rather slippery.

Unfortunately becos of the weather, there was fog all around and there wasn’t a view when we reached the peak. Nonetheless, it was still an achievement for us to do this, and also we made it together!

Thankfully, there was a nice view of Big Wave Beach as we trekked downwards. The path after ascending and descending the main Dragon’s Back is VERY easy btw, pretty smooth and easy roads. Well, unless you climb up the steps from Big Wave Beach towards Dragon’s Back..then that will be a ton of steps up. For our case, we just happily stepped down and were rewarded with this beautiful view!

Most importantly, we made it and completed the 8.8km hike! You can then hop onto the red minibus that goes back to Shau Kei Wan MTR and reward yourself with some bites onboard / a satisfying hot shower like what we did. 🙂

Here’s then ending off the night right with a dinner treat at Yung Kee restaurant for their roasted goose and some side dishes. Just saying that it’s really expensive with half a goose, poached veggies, a soup and two plain rice for more than S$150 for two. Having said that, you’re paying for rather quality food in a lovely setting and good service, albeit at premium pricing which I’m sure you can find better goose elsewhere tbh.

The waiting time was also rather long, think we waited almost 40 mins for our goose to be served, till we asked for our rice and veggies to be re-heated as they were cold by the time the goose came.

Also some good news, you can use your free HKD 100 voucher here to offset the bill. Fun fact – it can be stacked! Nonetheless, we still paid around $140 (after deducting the voucher). Oh well, better than nothing!

And back to our hotel for a rest stop as we called a day for the night. Gnite and thanks always for reading.

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