Hongkong & Macau: Mini Haul

What happens if you bring someone who prefers "quiet shopping" to crazy elbow-your-way-around shopping destinations like Hongkong?

She goes home with a mini haul :)

Below is her shopping journey...

The HK and Macau maps which I never got to use 'cause everyone else in the group are direction-savvy (Thank God!)

Tour guides will tell you to stop converting HK dollars  to your country's currency so you'll have a great shopping experience.
Yeah right, I say. I still can't help but convert.
Sorry man, but we don't earn dollars so we have to live within the peso budget.

Tadaa! My mini haul :)

Please click "Read more" to see the stuff that made up my mini haul.

Got the Hongkong T-shirts.
I guess, you can't leave a foreign country without getting their souvenir shirts.
I don't collect them though.

I got Bossini shirts for my uncle (advance Christmas shopping here).
I was informed that you can buy this brand at cheaper prices in HK.
Other brands to check out: Giordano and G2000

I didn't go crazy in Sasa.
There are too many brands but my New Year's resolution kept reminding me to buy only the ones I need.
I got mascara from Majolica Majorca (a bit cheaper than the PH price), my first try from the brand.

For Mama
- consumed the smallest space of the haul but ate up the biggest chunk of the budget, hahaha
I love her much more than that.
Christmas gift - check :)

Goodies for the people back home

These are the Husband and Wife cakes and some egg rolls.
We tasted them first and got our top picks for the pasalubong.

Another touristy thing (next to the T-shirts)
Expect the photographer buddy of your tour guide to offer this souvenir plate to you
after taking your pictures at the Avenue of the Stars.
I wouldn't fall for this on any other day but the photographer (I think his name's Kevin)
seemed like a nice, friendly chap so I gave in. We all did :)

I gathered from google searches that Japanese cosmetic brands are cheaper in HK.
I held back on replenishing my stocks when my HHN cleansing oil and Pond's cold cream ran out
and waited for this HK-Macau trip.
I got my Shu Uemura finds at the Duty Free Shop inside Macau's City of Dreams.

These are the stuff that I collect.
I got my bells from Macau and HK. Super yay! When I got these, I felt like I was done shopping, haha.
While at Macau, I saw this beautiful blue doll (center) and couldn't resist it.
Our tour guide, Vivien, saw me and said: "Beautiful, just like you."
And you guessed it, I was sold.
There it went with my Macau bell.
 I hand-carried this, like a precious fragile thing, till I got back in Manila.

That's all dears. Just shared my humble mini haul with you. Till next shopping (most probably, the "quiet" one) ;)