Hong Kong - The Food Post Part 2

Lunch was at a porridge place in Causeway Bay. Not bad but didn't bother taking photos.

Dessert was at Fart Kei - Fiona rates this place as the best. I wasn't that impressed.

Mango glutinuous dumplings.

Mango jelly with tofu icecream. The jelly is konyatku jelly... was refreshing.

Dinner was with Viv's friend Gabriel. He took us to a Japanese buffet. We met up at 8.30 pm which meant we were starving so no pics. But I can tell you the all you can eat sashimi was beeeeeaaaaoooouuuuuuutiful.

Third day - breakkie same old same old at another Cha Chang Teng but the amusing thing is we bumped into GH and Jayden here. We were to meet at the MTR station to go to Disneyland and they obviously decided to have breakkie there too.

My favourite - Hong Kong style milk tea and egg & ham sandwich... the bread is oh so soft.
Rest of the day food will be documented in my separate Disney post.

Fourth day breakkie - another Cha Chang Teng.

Best ever ngau lam mien (beef brisket noodles) - so soft and so tasty. Yum yum.

After that we went wandering around Tsim Sa Tsui and we came across this stall selling a typical Hong Kong roadside snack - Little Egg (direct translation). I guess because it looked like a tray of eggs. HKD11... when we walked past it was dead so I wasn't interested. On the way back there was a long queue!!!! I can't miss out!!!

Not impressed. Tasted like a very plain waffle

Lunch was at Langham Place's mall in Mongkok.Kinda ironic that I went all the way from NZ to Malaysia to HK to have "fresh" NZ beef.I had the fried rice with beef + a drink for HKD38. Was very nice and flavoursome. I had this again the next day for dinner.

Breakfast on the 5th daty - another Cha Chang Teng.

Viv's disgusting choice - porridge.

My healthy choice - Thick toast with condensed milk (which I scraped off) and ham and eggs.

We were off to the Peak today so I decided to get some snacks for the day from Wing Wah, a popular traditional bakery in Hong Kong.

I got their lou por beng (wife's pastry). 6 for HKD24.

Apparently the legend has it that there was once a loving couple. The wife sold herself off in order to raise money to treat her father in law's illness. Her husband then came up witha type of pastry and sold it in order to buy his wife back. They then lived happily ever after. The pastry is then called Wife's Pastry.

Very fresh. Very crumbly. Very rich. When I opened the box, Jayden came walking over from a far distance away. I felt like the Piep Piper.

Another dessert stop that night at Honeymoon Dessert. Viv had a watermelon juice.

I had a mango and pomelo sago with tau fu far. SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO good. I want to marry this dessert.

Had another dessert before we went up to our hotel that night. This is fruit bowl with mango juice and coconut ribbon.

Fancy red bean soup. Red bean on one side and coconut cream on the other.

So that chronicled what we ate in Hong Kong. Seemed like a lot of sweets I know... but in my defense, we wallked from 10 am to 10 pm everyday hehe ....

Hong Kong - The Food Post Part 1

Arrived in Hong Kong around 8 and we were starving by the time we finished checking in. Went downstairs to the Temple Market and ate at a roadside stall. Too hungry and forgot to take pics. I had curry beef brisket rice and Viv had chicken mushroom claypot. Mmmm rice.

Then it was straight onto dessert. This was a very traditional dessert place and the prices reflected it too. Around HKD15 for each dessert compared to around HKD25 at the chainstore dessert places. Quite quaint.

Viv had the black sesame soup with glutinuous dumplings. Very rich.

I had the tau fu far (sweet tofu) with fresh mango. Yum yum... but too full so didn't finish it. Then it was back to the hotel for some ZZZzzzzzzZZZzzz.

1st day in HK - we wandered up and down the backstreets of Nathan Road to find a nice authentic non-dodgy place to have breakfast. We ended up at this place for yum cha. Very noisy, very Hong Kong, very cheap. I think it was NZD5 for each of us.

The usual yum cha suspects - feng chau (chicken feet), har gau (shrimp dumplings), siew mai (pork dumplings), char siew bau (bbq pork buns, not shown), beef balls (not shown) and nai wong bau (custard buns, not shown).

Lunch was dessert hehe at Hui Lau Shan - a very popular, at-every-street-corner dessert joint.

The menu

The mango platter - HKD35 with (clockwise from top) Mango filled dumpling with fresh mango slices, mango pudding with fresh mango and fresh mango in mango juice with dumplings.

Mango pudding with mango icecream and fresh mango.

Late lunch around 4pm at some char chang teng (HK cafe).

Left - roast goose and char siew rice.

Right - roast goose and suckling pig rice.

Another dessert stop. This time at Honeymoon Desserts, my personal favourite. Check out the cute fake desserts.

Left - Mango in coconut cream with black herbal jelly

Right - Mango in coconut cream with black glutinuous rice.

Late supper at a themed restaurant - Modern Toilet where everything was toilet related. It's owned by Viv's friend. A tad overpriced I think because the food was a bit blah.

Hand basin table with a toilet as seat. The cover does open up and you can pop your handbag inside for safe keeping.

Various toilet seat covers on the wall and urinals that light up on the left hand side wall.

Another seating area which has a bathroom theme with bathtubs as tables and shower heards on the walls. Check out the poo shaped light shades.

Food comes in toilet shaped bowls. This was some kind of beef dish.

This was a seafood dish with a miso base. Not that great.

Breakfast on Day 2 was at a Cha Chang Teng next to our MTR station.

This was a breakfast combo - milk tea, wontons and fried egg & ham. Tasted as appetising as it looked. At least it was dirt cheap.

You Saw It Here First

Yes I am the mystery woman who is coming between Brad and Angelina......

..... with Aaron as my bit on the side... heheh.

I'm Leaving on a Jet Plane

Apologies to my loyal readers (all two of you!!). If you are starting to panic that I've died due to wedding season overdose, do not fret. I am alive and well. The sisters' multiple weddings aka giant pain on my butt, are now three quarters of the way over (China wedding still to come). I am very behind in my blogging. Thank goodness I didn't set regular blogging as part of my NY resolutions huh?

Anyway all the sisters have jetted off to different places leaving me back home alone with the parents again. I was going to buckle down and be a good little blogger BUT something a lot better has come up so you'll just have to wait 10 more days.

Because I'm off to HONG KONG, baby!!!!
Very impromptu because I only booked my tickets 2 days ago and I fly first thing tomorrow morning. Long story short, sister is in Hong Kong without any companions and Mum insisted that I go and be her bodyguard... because I'm so skilled in fighting and disarming any would be murderers and rapists. Not complaining though.

Ciao, suckers!

You Had Me At.... Hello, 2009!

Time to farewell 2008 and welcome in 2009!! Party time!!!!

I never make resolutions but I thought I''ll make some since I'm writing an entry here. My resolutions for 2009:

1. Be more active. Being over 30 meant I can no longer stuff my body full of lollies and not suffer the consequences for it (although I do try!) and before I left NZ, I started getting into my weekly hike with Viv. Ok, I made it sound hardcore but the so-called hike is really just a walk somewhere in the Waitakere Ranges for an hour heheh. Hey, maybe I can do that famous 8 hour hike by Christmas 2009. Shuddup.

2. Try new things. I really want to try para gliding!!

3. Buy a house.... maybe... or more shoes heheh.

Ok I'll keep my resolutions short and sweet so that they are more achievable.

May all your dreams come true and all your resolutions are kept in the coming year.