Wait, let me eat my dinner first. I’m famished and exhausted. I did more than 14,000 steps since lunch today.

Left home an hour later than I planned, at around 10 am-ish and arrived at Red Planet Binondo at 11:30 am. Parked, dropped our bags, and off we went to have lunch. First stop is Chuan Kee my cousin told me to order the xiao long bao.

Twin I said it was ok, like Din Tai Fung. I couldn’t tell the difference. I mean, the best xiao long bao I had was in Taiwan in 2007 and I could never find that same taste again.

After Chuan Kee, Twin I wanted dessert so we picked from among the options here:

We ended up at Cafe 1919 because it was the nearest one in our hotel.

Then we walked farther along Ongpin to check out some gold jewelry and have my gold stuff cleaned and plated.

And we walked out of Ongpin to Escolta to check out Hub: Make Lab, a hub for startup artists.

We spent 30 mins or so at the photo studio to take photos of us being silly.

To be continued. I’m super tired.