Highlights of the first week in HK 2009 (Dec 1 - 7)

Day 1
Sat on the plane with a chinese senior 2 seats over, didn't know English and kept asking me to navigate to the movies for him.

Day 2
Arrived in HK, needed to adjust to the pace of things. Seems lost, confused and out of place.

Day 3
Went to dim sum with grandparents. Jetlagged and stayed at home. Went to get the egg tarts that Chris Patten loves. It's not bad, the cookie dough one is pretty crispy.














Day 4
Woke up with woozy, high fever, very painful sore throat and pretty much the works. Fearing that it may be H1N1, went to see a doctor right away. Turns out I probably caught something on the plane and have to take antibiotics for the sore throat. Couldn't resist the sushi temptation and went for sushi, despite I was pretty sick. Stayed at home for the rest of the day.

Day 5
Went to Admiralty for lunch. Had a udon with chicken, the udon was very 彈牙 and chicken was tasty and the skin was crispy. Lotus root cake was good too!



Went to the peak afterwards, thinking the weather's pretty good and the smog is gone.


This is all we saw:



尖沙咀 turned out to be too smoggy to be seen.



Went to 尖沙咀. It so happened on the same day there is fireworks to celebrate the East Asian Games. Good view points on both sides of the harbour has been blocked off with barriers and police/tv station crews can be seen everywhere.

Dinner: 板長 @ LCX
Highlights from that meal


From top left (clockwise) 板長蝦, 珍寶帶子, 火炙魚背
The scallop was so good, thick and juicy.... the 魚背 was a bit on the fatty side but was good since it was thinly sliced, it paired up with the rice


In the lower corner of the plate with the lime wedge, 火炙佐賀和牛


天使蝦


Fireworks - not sure why HK people still get excited over fireworks. Fireworks happens like 3-4 times a year. There's nothing really special about it anymore. As we were walking back to avoid the after show rush, you can hear the people on the street going oh.... and ah.....

Day 6

Went to 橫綱食拉麵. I arrived at the place at around 11:45am and there were a few people already lined up to have ramen.



食咗個味玉拉麵 w/ 粗麵. Soup was a bit on the salty side but acceptable. Noodles were just right, not overcooked or too soft... The highlight of the meal was definitely the egg, as this restaurant is so famous for. Egg white was soft and the yolk was cooked just right.

Day 7
Went to Wanchai/CWB. Stopped by 龍門大酒樓 to take some pics since it'll be demolished soon. A middle age guy came by and asked me if I can take some pics of the restaurant for him since he doesn't have money to buy a nice camera. As reluctant as I was, I agreed to his request and took some pics, and he gave his email address for me to email the pics to him.

Afterwards, I walked around Wanchai looking for the 藍屋, 橙屋 and 黃屋... unable to find it, I did find the old Wanchai post office. Also stumbled upon a 茶餐廳 which is famous for their iced milk tea (pre-made and chilled before serving, no ice added). Personally, I don't think it's my cup of tea, didn't think the milk tea was that good...



Sushi count: 3
Ramen count: 2
Egg tart: 2