Amazingly good food, lots of laughter, and getting lost in a country where they speak a weird twang of Mandarin (its actually Cantonese but hey, I'm a classic banana. I'm starting to turn more into a mango but I'm still in the works.)
Had a birthday celebration with my friends who insisted on making it a big deal. Ate wayyy too much xiao long bao and ended up feeling like one. Of course, we had to have a bottle of wine.
My friends reminded me that HK is like a bigger Merlion City. And looking out over seascape, I'm inclined to agree. Its hot, bustling, lots of people, cheappppppp deals (OMG. You have got to be kidding me. If you're earning Merlion moolah and you wanna head over to HK for a bargain shopping weekend, THIS is the place to be), and food. Glorious food.
Went to a marine amusement park which was really awesome and they had a whole lot of headgear. Naturally, I had to try them on. Who wouldn't?!?!
It got to a point where the giggles were attracting the weird stares and all of us decided to stop behaving like children and more like adults. But where's the fun in that, right?
I understand that I might have titled this blog post a bit differently as I'm ending up showing a lot of pictures of everything else but dim sum but hey, its a holiday, right? And the food's coming up, I promise.
So we get to the good part. Food, glorious food...and me being perfectly ignorant of what the food is called during dim sum, I'm just going to show you what it looks like.
I think this is some kind of pork rib dish. Small portions but oh so good.
This one reminds me of ngo hiong roll but its done with a different kind of wrapper and the inside is fish...and that's if I remember it correctly.
As with a lot of Asian food, the deep fried stuff. This is NOT eggs, although its made to look like it. The "shell" is made out of some kind of glutinous flour and there's savoury pork mince on the inside. Your teeth sinks in very comfortably and it crackles as you bite in. Heavenly.
Spring rolls. Nothing much to say about this but it pleases me. Hehe. I'm easily pleased.
Another deep fried concoction which was awesome but again, I can't remember what it is.
A gently baked puff of sorts, this one contained barbecued pork, or char siu in the local vernacular.
Ah. This dish, I remember. Its called chee cheong fun, made out of rice flour "skin" and filled to the brim with barbecued pork and generously soaked in soy sauce. This one finished faster than I remembered.
Lo mai kai (chicken in glutinous rice wrapped in cabbage leaves, I think?) is one of my favourites. But then again, I've always been a big rice person anyhow.
This dish is not for the faint of heart. Literally. It looks like the usual bao but bite into it and out comes a delicious combination of egg yolk and butter. Mmm. Yep. One heart attack, please.
And after all that wonderful feasting (we ate dim sum 5 out of the 7 days that we were there), was it a wonder that now, my work pants are barely holding on?
No, not really. Meh.
Obligatory food post up and running. I'm still waiting for blogging ideas, if you can't tell.
