Breakfast

Rose Airport Lounge

Self-service pho
Dragonfruit
Mini banana
Spring roll
Shrimp ball
Tamarind candy
Coffee candy

Dinner

Mojo (Cafe at the hotel)

Chao Tom - shrimp paste grilled on sugarcane, rice noodles, "young banana," starfruit, fish sauce

Good!

Dinner

Sésame (another training school for disadvantaged kids)

Lotus salad (with hot pepper, carrot, daikon?, shrimp, crispy fried potato? crackers
Chicken with fried rice
Soup (ground pork, cabbage, scallions, black pepper)
Watermelon (set menu - no choice)

Quite disappointing (though they seated me when I showed up an hour before they opened) - the salad was a little too much like eating a pile of raw onions, chicken undercooked, soup lukewarm

Lunch

Pho 24 (chain)

Chả cá thì là - Fishcakes with dill - with hot chili paste/sauce
Chả giò - Fried spring rolls - delicious!
Chả - Pork pie - like meatloaf
Cà phê sừa đá - Iced coffee with condensed milk - almost tastes like chocolate

Snack

Baguette - very airy, with chewy crust

Lunch

Huong Lai (training restaurant for kids from poor/homeless families)

Fresh spring rolls - chicken, mint, shrimp, fish sauce
Taro soup - rice, ground pork, white pepper
Shrimp in coconut curry sauce - rice noodles
Grilled eggplant - sweet and salty with scallions, peanuts, toasted garlic? Slight burnt flavor
Lemon juice (diluted & sweetened)
Coffee ice cream - very weak coffee flavor and streaked with vanilla - I think it might have been made by pouring coffee over vanilla ice cream!

Pretty good overall.

Breakfast

Buffet at Sheraton

Lots of good food! See pictures.

Dinner

Seafood Restaurant in Causeway Bay

Chili crab - seemed to be cooked in sauce, then covered with a breadcrumb-like topping with a spicy garlic flavor
Clams - in thick, slightly spicy sauce
Bamboo clams - topped with fen si and ?deep fried garlic? - meat like a cross between scallops and clams

Dinner

Asian-Italian Tuna Penne

Stir-fry shallots in a little vegetable oil with Italian seasoning, black pepper, and red peppers. Add tuna, soy sauce, lemon juice, and Chinese vinegar; mix and heat. Serve over penne and drizzle with sesame oil.

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.

Dinner

Ajisen Ramen

Fried wasabi squid
Gyoza
Chrysanthemum - lemon - pomelo iced tea

Dinner

The Delhi Club (Indian Food)

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

Great!

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)

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!

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)

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.

Dinner

One of my students (Low) invited us for a big Dragon Boat Festival dinner at his family's newly-opened restaurant. Lots of pictures uploaded at http://gallery.me.com/bgw1114/101693 (scroll down to near the bottom).

Dinner

Anatolian place on Hengshan Rd., Shanghai

Turkish bread with 5 dips: potato salad, hummus, yogurt, tangy yogurt,
and spicy tomato

Turkish dumplings in yogurt sauce

Delicious!

Western Breakfast on Air China

Eggs, carrots, tomato, broccoli, and potatoes. Potatoes were almost
flavorless, but they were pressed into smiley faces!

Thunder Bamboo

A dish we had recently is called Thunder Bamboo, because this
particular kind of shoot sprouts at this time of year, when there are
lots of thunderstorms. Cooked in broth with some pork (fat) slices.

Dinner

Friends Restaurant

Grilled Mekong Fish (with lime wedge - and no bones!) with tomato and
red onion salad
Burmese chicken curry with noodles topped with crunchy noodles
Caramelized pineapple on coconut and chili ice cream
Raspberry and vanilla smoothie

Fish was the best, but it was all good!

Dessert

Sugarcane juice with lime - unlike in China, where you chew on the
sugarcane and spit out the pulp once it's dry, at Cambodian sugar
juice stalls there are machines that squeeze the juice out, then the
juice is poured into a cup with ice and a straw. Better than chewing
and spitting (and probably a little better for your teeth, too)!

Dinner

At The Smokin' Pot

Pineapple Orange Banana shake
Beef Lok Lak (a little sour, with egg on top and onions and cucumbers)
Fish Kroeung (sour soup)

Dinner

At Butterflies Garden Restaurant

Khmer Mom's chicken soup - flavored with pickled lemon, carrot, onion, coriander

Pomelo salad with grilled chicken, mint, toasted peanuts, and a little hot pepper and maybe oil

Both of which were delicious!

Also had iced mint tea.  

Dinner

Buffet, which included several kinds of Khmer food, such as:

Fried (battered) bananas and potatoes
Amok fish (baked in a banana leaf - a little like Thai tom yum - good!)
Spring rolls - fresh and fried
Stir-fried wide noodles (China does them better)
A couple glutinous rice cake things
Thin omelette with bean sprouts and ground pork in it
Sliced baguette (very popular in Cambodia, though they are more like
American baguettes than French baguettes)

Expensive ($12), but I got to try a lot of different foods and there
was a live performance of traditional dancing (think Tup Tim's
production of "Uncle Tom's Cabin" in "The King and I").

Late Lunch

Socheata II (a rare Lonely Planet food recommendation that lived up to
its billing!)

Chicken amouk (amoc) - I think it's supposed to be cooked in a banana
leaf, but it wasn't served with one. At first, I thought it was just
Thai food (lemongrass, curry, rice), but it has a milder, subtler
flavor - a difference I noticed especially when I came to the pieces
of sweet potato or squash (not sure which). Delicious either way!

I also had freshly squeezed limeade.

Breakfast

At the guesthouse: big pancake (like a cake cooked in a pan!) with
banana inside and jam on top.

Dinner

At my guesthouse: noodles (ramen) stir-fried with vegetables and chicken

Late Lunch

L'Atelier cafe/restaurant
Tarragon chicken muffins with salad - also mustard sauce and marinara
sauce for dipping - good! Muffins had a nice, yeasty taste.
Fresh pineapple juice

Dinner

Wenzhou "big wonton" 温州大馄饨

Lunch

Teahouse in Maokong

Tea oil noodles

3 Meals & Snacks

Breakfast at Starbucks: "Belgium waffle" - coffee served in a real mug!

Lunch at Taipei 101 (the skyscraper) food court: Taiwanese beef
noodles (in soup with some green vegetable and a big slice of 萝卜luobo
- VERY tender pieces of beef!)

Dinner at a vegetarian restaurant near the train station: 素排骨面 soup
noodles with a "pork chop," which was sprinkled with thick soy sauce
and shreds of fresh ginger - very good!

Dessert at Dunkin Donuts: Sugar-coated donut and chocolate-covered
raspberry-filled heart-shaped donut with "herbal tea" (more like a
raspberry-lime rickey)

Street Food: Scallion pancake topped with thick soy sauce and white
pepper

Other Snacks

From various stalls:

Brown sugar bull's horns (sweet croissaint - or bull horn - shaped
pastry)
Small potstickers
Waffle-like pod filled with vegetables

Dinner

At Jeff Weng's grandmother's house

Assorted cold things (tofu, meat, vegetables cooked with anise
seasoning and served with thick soy sauce)
Balls of sweet potato flour stuffed with shrimp, mushrooms, dried
scallops in soup with cabbage

Lunch

Dim Sum at the Palace Museum

Mushroom and bamboo soup
Shrimp and bamboo dumplings
Shrimp and leek dumplings
Cha siu bao
Almond jello!

Breakfast

From a stall outside the Shilin train station:

�� (饭团）fantuan: shredded chicken, powdered pork, two kinds of
pickled vegetable (sweet-sour-curry flavor), and a piece of youtiao
(deep-fried stick of dough) wrapped in sticky rice. Very tasty!

Dinner

Dim Sum place in the food court at the train station:
Potstickers
Hot and sour soup
Bean sprouts wrapped in tofu skin (thought it was rice when I got it)

Milk tea (real thing - it originated in Taiwan)

Snack

From a bakery in the subway (I could smell it when I got off the
train):
Garlic toast (2x2x6 block of bread, buttered and covered with garlic
on all sides)
Doughnut

Dinner

Napa Wine Bar & Restaurant (next to the hostel)

Amuse bouche: Salmon with greens (and lemon rind?)
Broccoli soup with bacon and herb crouton (flavorful, but would have
liked more broccoli flavor)
Intermezzo: watermelon-lemon-olive oil ice topped with shredded basil
Cod with roasted garlic, baby carrots, and grape tomatoes
Chocolate lava cake with vanilla ice cream, cappucino cookie?, and
morello cherries stewed in mulled wine
Wines: Italian Alois L__? Pinot Grigio, Ruby Port

Lauren: Caesar salad, gnocchi with pesto and grape tomatoes

Very expensive, but it was fun to try all the foods and it was pretty
good - the tomatoes they used were really great.

Dessert

Paul (French Patisserie)

Chocolate Tartlet and Raspberry Tartlet

Lunch

Grape Restaurant

Xiao Long Bao, scallion pancakes, spring rolls, hot and sour soup

All good but nothing special

Also, for a snack, we got something like pan-fried bao, which was
delicious!

Dinner & Dessert

Dinner: Lou Wai Lou 楼外楼

Cold Dishes: thick, short noodles in meat sauce, dried bamboo in
sesame oil

Hot Dishes: Deep fried tofu skin rolls with sweet sauce, soup noodles
with pork, bamboo, and vegetables

Tea: West Lake Dragon Well (Longjing龙井)

Dessert: Häagen-Dazs
Triple layer strawberry, mascarpone-passionfruit-(chocolate) truffle,
and chocolate-orange separated by "puff pastry" cookies and surrounded
with orange segments and strawberries. Lauren had a similar
production with cookies and cream and coffee ice cream.

Dinner

Crystal Jade Restaurant (Xihu Tiandi)

Spicy Pork Dumplings
Singapore Fried Noodles 星洲炒贵刁

Breakfast

Parmesan Olive Oil Bread Toast
Honey-Citron (Pomelo) tea - jam-like stuff from a jar that you add to
hot water