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Hong Kong: food and the occasional building
Alas, I am not still in Hong Kong, though I really wish I were. Instead, I am about two months late in posting these pictures!
ETA: apologies for some of the smudgy photos; I hadn't realized I had a fingerprint on my lens for about ten pictures or so.
More subway photos! I thought this looked a lot like the London Tube, which also has fast, steep escalators lined with ads?
A cloudy Hong Kong skyline from around the Kowloon ferry terminal.
More of the ferries and Hong Kong.
MANGOSTEENS OMG!!!!! I came back to discover that Taiwan has outlawed importing mangosteens. I have not had them for five years! Thankfully, my aunt was incredibly nice and bought an entire bagful for me in Hong Kong. So tasty!
The insides are these fleshy white lobes. If the seed is small or underdeveloped, you can just eat a slice, but otherwise, you have to gnaw around the seed. I don't know how to describe the taste... they're a little tart and just very fragrant and not quite like anything else I've had. I am so sad I will not be able to get any more until next year, if I can make it back to Hong Kong for the summer.
All the following photos are smudgy, as I didn't realize I had a fingerprint on my lens until later. These are little fried taro dim sum things.
Deep fried egg batter! They have the same texture as sha qi ma and are covered with sticky honey. Yum!
Bwahaha, roast squab!
Fish maw (stomach) and chicken. I think. Fish maw is very weird and sort of spongy like bamboo pith.
Deep-fried something... I think I photographed it because I haven't had it before, and now I've forgotten what it was!
Tasty congee!
A really good dessert called jin sha liu bao (I think). The outside is just like a baozi, and the inside is cooked egg yolk mixed with egg, and somehow it's liquidy, like the texture of a soft-boiled egg yolk, and a wee bit salty and sweet and so good!
Turnip cake in XO sauce is ten times yummier than plain turnip cake.
Roast pork with very, very crispy skin. Yum!
Possibly one of the oddest ice cream flavors I've seen for a while. Sadly, I didn't have a chance to get it because I was so full.
The clock tower somewhere near the ferry terminal in Kowloon, framed by the arts center.
More Hong Kong skyline! What? I am greatly fond of it.
I tried to get a photo of a very typical Hong Kong scene: a narrow street bridged by blinking store signs. Alas, no such luck, so instead you get a view of some billboards in Causeway Bay and small look at the double-decker buses (normal public transportation, not for tourists).
The best vending machine EVER! BOOKS!
Another shot of the Hong Kong MTR, because the Causeway Bay station reminded me so much of some Tube stations (only missing the Cadbury vending machines). I think it's the curving walls, though possibly I am confusing them with another city's public transportation.
Afternoon tea at the Peninsula Hotel! So tasty! So much food!
Mmmmmm, scones.
I tried to get a picture of the mountains that are everywhere in Hong Kong, but the picture's a little blurry because it was taken from a taxi going to the airport.
Another view of the mountains.
ETA: apologies for some of the smudgy photos; I hadn't realized I had a fingerprint on my lens for about ten pictures or so.
More subway photos! I thought this looked a lot like the London Tube, which also has fast, steep escalators lined with ads?
A cloudy Hong Kong skyline from around the Kowloon ferry terminal.
More of the ferries and Hong Kong.
MANGOSTEENS OMG!!!!! I came back to discover that Taiwan has outlawed importing mangosteens. I have not had them for five years! Thankfully, my aunt was incredibly nice and bought an entire bagful for me in Hong Kong. So tasty!
The insides are these fleshy white lobes. If the seed is small or underdeveloped, you can just eat a slice, but otherwise, you have to gnaw around the seed. I don't know how to describe the taste... they're a little tart and just very fragrant and not quite like anything else I've had. I am so sad I will not be able to get any more until next year, if I can make it back to Hong Kong for the summer.
All the following photos are smudgy, as I didn't realize I had a fingerprint on my lens until later. These are little fried taro dim sum things.
Deep fried egg batter! They have the same texture as sha qi ma and are covered with sticky honey. Yum!
Bwahaha, roast squab!
Fish maw (stomach) and chicken. I think. Fish maw is very weird and sort of spongy like bamboo pith.
Deep-fried something... I think I photographed it because I haven't had it before, and now I've forgotten what it was!
Tasty congee!
A really good dessert called jin sha liu bao (I think). The outside is just like a baozi, and the inside is cooked egg yolk mixed with egg, and somehow it's liquidy, like the texture of a soft-boiled egg yolk, and a wee bit salty and sweet and so good!
Turnip cake in XO sauce is ten times yummier than plain turnip cake.
Roast pork with very, very crispy skin. Yum!
Possibly one of the oddest ice cream flavors I've seen for a while. Sadly, I didn't have a chance to get it because I was so full.
The clock tower somewhere near the ferry terminal in Kowloon, framed by the arts center.
More Hong Kong skyline! What? I am greatly fond of it.
I tried to get a photo of a very typical Hong Kong scene: a narrow street bridged by blinking store signs. Alas, no such luck, so instead you get a view of some billboards in Causeway Bay and small look at the double-decker buses (normal public transportation, not for tourists).
The best vending machine EVER! BOOKS!
Another shot of the Hong Kong MTR, because the Causeway Bay station reminded me so much of some Tube stations (only missing the Cadbury vending machines). I think it's the curving walls, though possibly I am confusing them with another city's public transportation.
Afternoon tea at the Peninsula Hotel! So tasty! So much food!
Mmmmmm, scones.
I tried to get a picture of the mountains that are everywhere in Hong Kong, but the picture's a little blurry because it was taken from a taxi going to the airport.
Another view of the mountains.
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That egg-yolky thing looked tasty.
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I also found the HK streets amazing. So quiet and empty in the morning, and then by late afternoon, simply packed with people, teeming with life. And shopping opportunities. *g*
We walked through the Peninsula Hotel lobby but felt far too underdressed and under-financed to stay. *g*
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Hee, I might go hiking in the hills some time that is not summer—just walking around in the streets had me almost keeling over from the humidity. Though I love that all the subway stations are air conditioned, so you can walk a good ways between places under ground and cool.
When we were at the Peninsula, I stood in front of all the super fancy jewelry stores and just boggled at the size of some of the stones.
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Also? I know it's not the same, but oh I am SO HOME(?)SICK for Taipei now, ow ow ow!
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And yeah... I am getting homesick too =(.
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It does! Only the London Tube adverts are much more cluttered and closer together.
Mangosteeeens! I heard about those from my mother, who had them in Vietnam in the 70s and never forgot them since. She had me track them down with only a vague description in Beijing, and the first taste knocked my socks off.
A really good dessert called jin sha liu bao (I think).
I love those! ... I'm momentarily blanking on where I've had them, but I do! I have a real weakness for Chinese deserts that prominently feature eggs.
Possibly one of the oddest ice cream flavors I've seen for a while.
I had corn ice cream once. It was shaped like it was on the cob (Popsicle stick), with a light wafer casing stamped to look like kernels. Surprisingly tasty.
And on top of all that, scones and double-decker buses? ... I may have to relocate to Hong Kong.
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And oh, I love eggs in dessert! When I was a kid, I used to be grossed out by the egg yolk in the middle of moon cakes, but now I think they are the best part.
Hee, I've seen the corn ice cream around, though I haven't tried it yet.
Hong Kong is AWESOME! Have you been? I love it so!
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You might like the corn ice cream -- it's very lightly sweet, and I thought any lingering oddness about the taste vanished quickly.
I haven't been to Hong Kong, but oh I so want to. (And Japan and South Korea and Singapore...) I'm actually arranging my move to Taiwan right now. If everything goes well I should be there in November.
S today I was browsing Taiwan guidebooks and found what is possibly the coolest effect of the internet age ever -- at least a dozen listings of popular expat or native blogs (in English) noted in the margins as supplementary material. So when they talked about the bubble tea phenom they provided the address to a blog that reviews bubble tea stands, or Taipei restaurants, or music venues...
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Also, I feel you should pass along any cool Taiwan blogs ;).
I love the Portuguese-style egg tarts so much! I wish they had them at KFCs here.
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Cool Taiwan blogs will not only be featured but celebrated, I promise.
If you're ever in London I can give you the location of my absolute favorite hang-out spot in that city: the twenty square feet encompassing a Chinese bakery (which sells the celebrated egg tarts by the box) two shops down from a cheap Japanese bento joint, across the street from an indie cinema with tickets starting at a pound.
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I have lots of photos of the mountain surrounding Taibei that look like your photos of the mountains in Hong Kong.
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