10 - 12 January 2026
In the morning of 10th, I had breakfast at the Australia Dairy Company at Jordan. It is a very famous Hong Kong style Cafe. It was well known for their super quick delivery of great tasting food, but also very bad and rude service, and table sharing to the max. The ham macaroni, scrambled egg and the bread with butter were all delivered within
10 seconds of me ordering the food. The hot HK Milk tea is delivered later after the food was finished, in order to conserve table space as that tiny table was for 4 people eating breakfast.
The second ham macaroni bowl was not mine, but another customer on the same table.
Hot HK Milk Tea after finished the food.
After that, I picked up my family at HK West Kowloon station as they caught the HSR from Guangzhou. We spent the rest of the day catching up.
On 11th, we caught the ferry to Cheung Chau for a day trip. It is an outer island off Hong Kong and is a regular getaway place for locals. We just want to go and relax:
We had lunch at a local open-air stall just off the ferry pier:
Then we did a walk around the island to other side of Cheung Chau:
After the walk, we decided to go to a famous local shop for fishball snacks. The line was long but the queue was moving quickly. The fishball was delicious.
Then we caught the ferry back to Hong Kong.
12 January 2026
QF128 Y HKG-SYD
On the 12th, we did more family stuff before catching the flight home. It was on A330 and we picked the 2 rows of 2 side seats, so we all have either window or aisle access. The seats are the same as the QF29 I caught earlier in the trip, so I did not take any photos.
As for the food, it was as bad as ever. For dinner, the rice was soggy. Therefore, I just ate the chicken and the vegetables.
The mango ice block was nice but was pre-packaged by a third-party company. In many ways, I would just prefer QF to give me all third-party pre-packaged food instead.
After an overnight nap, it was breakfast time. The western breakfast tasted very average. I wanted the Chinese breakfast but it all ran out. The best food in breakfast was muffin and tea. Everything else tasted terrible:
We landed at SYD at 7:40am 13 January. The immigration and customs took about 2 hours as there were so many people coming back to Australia at that time, and the luggage took ages to come out. We got out at 9:40am.
A problem at the end
However, that was NOT the end of the trip. Now I had a problem, which I had never experienced before.
I parked at P7 Parking at SYD International terminal at the start of the trip. After 3 weeks, none of us remembered where we parked our car. This was the first time I forget where I parked, after doing this many times in the past without issues.
It is either I was getting old, or I had such a good time at Newcastle, all those Newcastle memories pushed out the memories of the car location. It is most likely a combination of two.
The worst thing is that P7 and P6 are together. So, it meant a massive amount of floor space for us to find our car.
After 3 hours walking around, finally the staff drove me around each floor before we finally found our car. I did 22500 steps in those 3 hours, and completely exhausted after an overnight Y flight. I felt like
Kramer in Jerry Seinfeld.
I mentioned it in the
Made Any Travel Mistakes Lately thread. Next time I will definitely take a picture of where I park my car, and maybe throw in an AirTag as suggested by another poster.
