Saturday, August 28, 2010

Lunch

津降土菜馆

Stir-fried sliced meat and "dried" tofu - much softer than the Anhui version, though
Stir-fried Kongqingcai (leafy green with hollow stems)
Pan-fried Japanese tofu (actually made of egg) with ground pork on top.

The Japanese tofu was my favorite.

Friday, August 27, 2010

Dinner

Ajisen Ramen

Fried wasabi squid
Gyoza
Chrysanthemum - lemon - pomelo iced tea

Wednesday, August 18, 2010

Dinner

The Delhi Club (Indian Food)

Naan
Fish Madras
Dahl? (seemed to be made mostly of yellow split peas)
Chicken Tikka
Mutton Saag?

Great!

Saturday, August 14, 2010

Hong Kong Food Expo

Baked stuffed scallops (with cheese and Cheez Whiz maybe?)
Fish balls in curry sauce
Shredded dried scallop (strong flavor - served on rice)
Coffee (a few kinds, nothing impressive)
Ramen soup noodles
Jerky-like sweet dried pork - great!
raspberry vinegar juice (from Korea)
ginseng tea ("It tastes bitter because there is no sugar added, but it's very healthy")
ginseng candy ("If you want less healthy, you can start with the candy")
Malaysian curry - tickling spicy
Truffle paste - delicious (from a truffle specialty store, selling truffle honey, truffle cheese, truffle oil...)
Korean rice stick in sweet, spicy tomato sauce
Cold Water Green Tea
Durian ice cream
Cherry tomato (not sweet enough for me to buy)
Spanish red wine that's meant to be chilled (didn't particularly like it)
Prosecco
Malbec?
Pipa jelly
Organic high-fiber chocolate cookie
Several other kinds of tea
Appolo ice cream (one scoop Thai coconut and once scoop mint chocolate chip - both good, especially the coconut)

Sunday, August 8, 2010

Dinner

Homemade:
Snap Peas (vegetable oil, salt, pepper, garlic powder, sugar)
Striped Catfish (butter, lemon juice, salt, pepper, Penzey's "mural of flavor")

From c!ty'super bakery:
Thyme sourdough roll

Turned out great!

Lunch

Dumplings at the mall: good enough, but way too expensive.

Dinner

Coffee Corner (one of the canteens on campus):

"Vietnamese" rice noodle soup with shredded chicken, tofu, onion, and Chinese radish - pretty good.

Also, chocolate beer (imported from Belgium - reminiscent of Tootsie Rolls).

Lunch

Homemade Chow Mein with scrambled egg - not very successful!

Saturday, August 7, 2010

Dinner

Last night I went out to Shatin to get some $$$$ groceries at City Super (officially spelled c!ty'super - Dr. Man says the "super" is for "super expensive"), and got some things from the bakery for dinner:

Mini pepperoni pizza (good)
Bread stuffed with cheese (bread was good but the cheese was not - think big chunks of American cheese)
Croquante (shaped like a tartlet, but seemed to be made of cubes of bread and walnuts held together by caramelized sugar - delicious)

Lunches

United College Canteen:
Stir-fried noodles with sliced cha siu pork (very lean, for Hong Kong) - great!
Japanese udon noodles with seafood

New Asia College Canteen:
Malay Curry with Chicken (some of the chick en was actually meat, which was nice)

Tuesday, August 3, 2010

Breakfast

Finally tried the Starbucks "Via" instant coffee, which was actually pretty good - certainly the best instant coffee I've ever had.

Special K Red Berries for food.

Monday Lunch

New Asia Noodle Club:

Beef Noodles - apparently the large comes in the same size bowl as the regular, but they fill it so full of noodles that they have to put the beef on a plate on the side. The beef was delicious (marinated), but marbled with gristle. It was cooked so tender that the gristle was very soft, but I still couldn't eat very much of it :-P

Sunday Dinner

Macanese restaurant in TST:

"Special Macanese Fried Turnip Cakes" - unlike many things that are described as "Special [ethnicity] ___" on Chinese menus, these turnip cakes were actually quite different from any I had had before, stir-fried with cabbage and slightly-hot peppers - delicious!

I also had a drink that seemed to be soda water with lemon and tangerine syrup with a slice of lemon and little pieces of candied tangerine.