london- December 2016

approaching sunset

Chinatown in london is awesome, you will see different types of food from bubble tea, chinese restaurant offering set meals, buffets under £10

dinner that cost me 24 pounds!!!!! we were famished and most of the shops were closed. so we went to chinatown again and qued for an hour

roasted duck- chinese delicacy??

streets selling branded stuff- cosummerism

coach deco

pret a manger, a huge sandwich chain in mainland UK. ordered take away cause dining in cost a pound more. also tried pret a manger in birmingham airport, it was some vegan sandwich with lots of arugula. reasonable pricing

lush concept store

3 floors of lush including exorbitant spa packages

bringing NUXE everywhere.  costa coffee located at oxford street. so tired of boxing day shopping

oh look, the costa coffee seasonal cups look so pretty, its such a waste as its only a one time use

so famished and we arrived at chinatown. so popped into this small restaurant because it has 1 michelin star or something. 10 pounds for a set meal. i liked the meat even though its pretty oily. the side dishes are unique too, they gave us cold brinjal, dried meat. 

fancy chocolate shop that i can't afford. 

british museum was magnificent. there were so many different sections including asia, europe, japan etc. i think i have visited more museums this year compared to my whole life.

the night view is nice, with a myriad of lights, fountains and lots of people going to and fro



christmas in london felt weird, first of all, all retail will be trying to sell their products prior to christmas, be it decorations, seasonal food like turkey, food, cosmetics and on christmas, most of the shops are closed and we can only visit chinatown

then on 26th December it will be boxing day where everyone will wake up super early and line up to go into departmental stores


Oxford Street is a crazy place where you can literally shop till you drop.

a same brand will appear many times in oxford street, and you can find anything you want

departmental stores like Harrods will be filed with rich asians and you fill find it hard to locate whatever you want

stores like GAP, Body Shop, H&M, Uniqlo will have prices dropped

TOPSHOP does have their sale section but the clothes are all being tossed everywhere and you dont think of going to the changing room


this mentality is like, you see something that is cheap, which you dont even need it, but you purchase anyway because it is cheap.


most high street clothings are of poor quality, just toss it into the washing machine for a few times and you can see the wear and tear.