Hong Kong...with an eye on food

So, this blog entry is all about the food we had in Hong Kong...

The day after we arrived (therefore: Thursday Dec 24th), we went to a cooking class. We made: fried rice, lemon chicken, some sort of fish, BBQ pork, and stir-fried noodles. It was all really good! (well, I didn't try the fish because I don't like fish, but everything else). Particularly the rice and the noodles (my favorite dishes of them all):

Here's us preparing for making the noodle dish.

The noodle dish. Yummm....now I want some Chinese food! Too bad I'm in VT...

I went to Starbucks pretty much everyday (there were 2 close to the hotel). One thing that I really like about going to Starbucks in other countries is that they have different things than we do. The two new drinks that they had were the black currant frappuccino (not it's official name, but I can't remember what the official name was) & the Mango Passionfruit frappuccino. They were both really good. The first one tasted a lot like the Tazoberry frappuccino (which has been gone for many years, but you can get the bottle tea at some stores). The second tasted like a Mango Tango (if you've ever been to Eva's Caribbean Kitchen in Laguna Beach & gotten one). yummm. But the food was different too.

Here are the Christmas desserts. I didn't try any of them, but they looked good!

Their cold cups had snowflakes on them! So cute!

Tea & Scones. I noticed that they have this option in London too, so it makes sense that they'd have it here. They heated up the scone and served it with cream (although it was more like whipped cream than clotted cream) and jam. This was breakfast most mornings of the trip.

Other Food Things:
This was a pastry I bought at a small pastry shop. It was SO good. It was essentially a croissant-like pastry with some sort of strawberry filling (but tasted even closer to strawberries than traditional jam, so I'm not sure what it was really).

Dim sum and pork buns.

XTC ice is an ice cream chain in Hong Kong. We went there last time (2005) and again this time. It has unique flavors that are really good. I had fresh mint (with actual pieces of mint

), stem ginger, cinnamon ginger, vaniglia caramel brownie, and I think I had another one...but they were quite delicious. If ever you're in HK, try some!

Notes:

*As much as we like Chinese food, after a few days, we simply couldn't eat anymore of it. One day, my sister declared it a Pork & Fried Foods (excl. french fries) Free Day. There is a Soho area in HK where there are Italian, Australian, & other non-Asian food restaurants. We pretty much stayed in that area the last few days. Our suggestions to you: Wagyu (try the beef), Posto Pubblico (Italian inspired), & Cru.