Similar to Hong Kong, their malls are underground. Much smalller as it is usually under one building only. Still remember when we were in HK, daddy would bring us into the mall from one entrance and when we exit from a different entrance, we will be on a different street. The malls here are much more organized and not as crowded but Ping didn't get anything because everything is so expensive, even more than in the States. Ping only went to one of the mall. Theng Theng went to Esprit and said that their style suits us better. Based on the fashion on the streets, they are much more like the Asian than American too.
Since most of the places were closed, we walked to Chinatown. As we were approaching and Ping saw all the streets name in Chinese, Ping got really excited. 那感覺真的很象在中國! But like most Chinatown, they are usually from Guangdong or Hong Kong because everyone was speaking in Cantonese. Ping would probably be out of place the moment Ping opens her mouth too. But seeing all the "eok thiam", wet market, seafood, "cheong" DVD and VCDs, stalls selling jades (probably fake), beads and various chinese restaurant. In fact, Ping got so excited that Ping just realized that she didn't have any photos from Chinatown! Was busy absorbing in the feeling of being at a familiar place.
The best was Ping get to eat some of the bakery stuff!! Got char siew pau, chin tooi, po lo pau, tan tart, they were all really good! It is really cheap too - 3 for $1 or the larger ones are 2 for $1! Of course don't come and tell me that for CAN $1 in Penang can get more than 3 lah...dollar to dollar, RM 1 可能只买到一可包吧.
The picture on the left is St. Lawrence market. It is the cleaner version of our "ban san".
There's also lots of pretty church here and there.
The one on the left here is the view from our hotel room. The buildings are very close to each other in the middle of the city. So you have to keep the blinds close all the time otherwise it can be pretty open for public viewing.
The convention center we were at was just below the CN tower (Canada's National Tower). It is also pretty close to the Union Station, which is their train and bus station (something like our KL Sentral, but KL Sentral is much more comfortable and organized). That's the brown building in the right picture. The CN tower is pretty much like our KL tower, where there's a revolving restaurant at the top and nothing else - as much as Ping heard from people since Ping didn't go up on it. Didn't feel that it is worth spending the money just to see the view of Canada when we can enjoy it by walking around. Like our KL tower and KLCC, it was once the tallest building in the world. Currently the tallest building in the world is probably the one in Taipei, Taiwan ba?即使還有很多地方玩但跟美國的朋友去, 他們不太想去走走. 天氣由熱, 他們由不太想在外面走.
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