Hong Kong Express

Xi’an day two (snack street)

Tom — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 07:52:14 +0000

One of the famous places in Xi’an is the ‘snack street’.

This is a mostly Muslim area, with all the food in the uighur style, from western china.

The food was all delicious, spending about RMB30 – ate like pigs!

Photos are as follows:

Meat Skewers – delicious! Amazingly delicious!

Rice cakes(?)

Spinach and Beef fried bread:

Chinese ‘hamburger’ – roast lamb in bread bun:

Chinese sweets – some sort of cakes:

Xi’an Short Holiday

Tom — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 07:23:04 +0000

A short trip to Xi’an during July with Brendon.

We were very lucky to have met a lovely girl (Michelle), on the flight who offered to give us a lift to our hotel and show us around the city.

With most things in China, everything is cute. After arrival, Brendon needed to get some money out so over to the ATM. Spotted this sign board with some very cute police about security for your ATM card.

Our first day, we made a trip to the Terracotta warriors. No tour group, just travelling on our own. To take the bus to the Terracotta warriors – we needed to go to the train station, it was about 3 blooks up the street so we took it on foot.

While walking up the street, we crossed the new subway line under construction (due to be opened later this year).

After arriving at the station and fighting to get through the swarm of people, arguging with the lady to hop on the bus & an hour long bus trip later we arrived at the dig site.

On the way – we passed the university as well as a mountian ( i can’t recall its name) – it was a rain/misty day, looked good to go up – but we were short on time, so we stayed on.

The warrior sites were pretty impressive, huge amounts of it is still not unearthed.

For day two, we had the girl we met picked us up from the Hotel and took us for breakfast.

I’ll post the rest of the day’s trip later in another post.

Claypot rice in Yau Ma Tei

Tom — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 06:55:08 +0000

‘Islam Food’ Kowloon City

Tom — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 15:39:19 +0000

Went on a mini adventure today to Kowloon City for dinner.

Kowloon city isn’t easily accessible by MTR so we took a bus which dropped us off at the Kowloon Walled City Park.

A short walk through the park and we arrived.

Anyway, cut the story short and just share the food!

Shao-Yi:

Beef Xiao Long Bao (delicious!)

Mutton Curry

Veal ‘Goulash’ – soup inside tasted like Xiao long bao!! Delicious!!

Need to retry this joint – it’s prices are good at HK$170 for both of us!

Recommended!

Postal Vote

Tom — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 02:47:57 +0000

Ballots received for voting for the upcoming election – already completed and on their way back!

Random……”Food”

Tom — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 12:57:53 +0000

iBooks Censorship fail!

Tom — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 04:43:47 +0000

Browsing though the iBooks and downloading some free out of copyright titles for free.

One such book is ‘Moby Dick’. Who would’ve though that the sperm whale would be censored!

King Ludwig Beerhall

Tom — Sun, 20 Jun 2010 03:04:38 +0000

Some traditional German grub in TST!

The Pork Knuckle was very good!

Two favourable store names!

Tom — Sat, 19 Jun 2010 13:43:17 +0000

Yo Mama frozen yoghurt

Curry in a Hurry!

Congee at Congee House

Tom — Sat, 19 Jun 2010 01:25:09 +0000