Hong Kong Visa Run Recap: Food

I‘m back from Hong Kong! (Well, I was back on Thursday evening); it was a busy trip, but I got all my documents sorted out, and I also had a good time with my mom, who flew over from Singapore to accompany me.

So, I’ve been kind of procrastinating on updating because I’m easily distracted there’s a lot of stuff to catch up on in the SEO/SEM industry; also, I’m sort of trying to re-adjust to Beijing. Culture shock hit hard this time round- I think because when I first came to Beijing I was mentally prepared, since flying from the US to Beijing was big deal; but flying back from Hong Kong, I didn’t really think much of it- until I was back in Beijing taking a cab back to my apartment, and the driver was totally disregarding any sort of traffic rules that you would have in cities with traffic enforcement. Oh Beijing…

Anyhow- so during my Hong Kong excursion I tried to document a couple of things: the food, my surroundings, and a fashion trend that I noticed was quite popular among the men there- man-bags (handbags, get it? anyhow..)

I didn’t manage to capture everything that I enjoyed while I was in Hong Kong, partly because at the beginning of the trip I kinda forgot that I wanted to blog about the food, and would start devouring everything, but also because I started to get really bad back-pains towards the middle of the week from sleeping on the couch at my grandparent’s place, and from carrying around my 1D Mark II N in my backpack (that thing is seriously a beast).

I digress, here we go:
(By the way, I definitely love Hong Kong food so much more than Beijing food. So much more flavor, and there’s more steamed stuff too- Beijing food is just salty and oily; bleh)

My mom! =)

Yum, chicken feet!

The giblets that were from the Chicken Soup

Chinese Herb Soup

Steamed Fish

Steamed Chicken

Steamed Chinese Broccoli

Steamed Tofu

Barbecue Pork and Roast Pork Rice

Roast Duck and Steamed Chicken Rice

Beef Stomach Noodles

Steamed eel – definitely a must-get in Hong Kong

Yummay shrimp!

The next two were taken with my Nokia E71 phone’s camera; pretty crappy quality… but my back was hurting and I didn’t bring my camera out =(

Won Ton Noodles Yum!

My fave meal everrrr in Hong Kong – Beef Tripe? (parts: stomach, intestines, liver?) Noodle

And last but not least, ‘Chicken Egg’ Waffle. I got these like… every night before heading up to my grandparent’s apartment.

 

More updates another time… it’s late now, I gotta get up for service!

-Duncan