Roast duck and pork seem to be the most common ingredients along with rice and noodles of course. The meat eaters in our family are very excited, but I have been struggling a bit, bleeding heart vegetarian that I am. I can’t consider fish now that I have seen the fish on sale outside restaurants [...]
Archive for the ‘Hong Kong’ Category
Eating in Asia so far
Posted in China, Hong Kong, tagged China, Hong Kong on October 3, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Hong Kong (3)
Posted in Hong Kong, tagged Hong Kong on October 3, 2008 | 1 Comment »
A national holiday today in HK and we take the bus across to the other side of HK Island to Stanley beach – along with zillions of other people and quite a few pet dogs. I get chatting to an English woman living here with her miniature dachshund. She tells me the high-rise apartments are [...]
Hong Kong (2) – shopping and eating
Posted in Hong Kong on October 1, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Yesterday in HK, Dad was at work so we spent the whole day shopping and eating. Patrick and I bought Chinese silk dressing gowns but Joseph made a big purchase. He bought a new pair of glasses. Joseph also thought he would like to buy a fake watch and so a man took us behind [...]
Hong Kong (1)
Posted in Hong Kong on September 30, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Some differences I have noticed already between HK and NZ:
1. There are beggars and they all have ripped clothes and often have an arm or a leg missing. One guy I think was pretending to have one missing.
2. There are lots of run down old apartment blocks in the centre of HK as well as [...]
Getting to HK
Posted in Hong Kong on September 30, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Today we are catching the plane to HK. Dad dropped us off at the airport and went to return the car to the guys we rented it from
Unfortunately we were travelling on Lufthansa which has useless in flight entertainment and no personal TVs. We got on the plane at 6pm and the flight was 10 [...]
