Guam - Lunch from Kalena's Chamorro Food truck

For lunch on Monday, I went to a food truck that was parked by the water.  The woman was very friendly and explained what all the menu options were.  I got Kadon Pika (chicken roasted with lemon and coconut - and maybe soy sauce? - also came with some cellophane noodles), spinach salad with lemon and coconut (was cooked, but was served cold), and shrimp kelaguen.  Served with red rice and spicy vinegar/soy sauce.

Guam - Dinner at Sundance

For dinner on Sunday, I got takeout from a place that has Filipino and Chamorro food at the food court at a mall around the corner from my hotel.  I got pork with taro leaves and coconut, mungo beans with pork, and beef in peanut sauce (with red rice).

Guam - Lunch at Tu Re' Cafe

For lunch on Sunday, I went to a cafe that has a patio right on the beach and had a crab burger with a peach Italian soda.  The sauce was spicy, so it came with cubes of a melon of some kind.  The melon was actually almost flavorless, so the taste wasn't that offensive, and it helped cool down the tongue!

Guam - Dinner at Meskla

Overall: Tasty and interesting, but too expensive. Experience also dampened by fish bone (see below).
For an appetizer, I had Hinetnon Tapun - a "clam bake" of chopped surf clams, palm hearts, banana flowers, cream cheese, and spinach, with garlic Chamorro flatbread. It turned out to be basically a dip for the flatbread (which was olive, not garlic), which really tasted mainly of cheese except for a few satisfyingly large chunks of clam and some smaller pieces of what I assume was palm heart (reminded me of artichoke heart but less sour).

For the main course, I got the "Chamorro Platter" - basically a sampler of fiesta food (every village on the island holds a fiesta for the feast day of its patron saint, and they eat the most characteristic Chamorro food on those days). It included dried beef, fried reef fish, red rice (which is flavored and colored with the seeds of some plant, the name of which I didn't catch), titiyas (Chamorro tortillas), pasta salad, and clam kelaguen.

The dried beef looked like cha siu pork, but was tough and salty.  The kelaguen was good - tasted like ceviche, and went well with the titiyas.  The pasta salad was pasta salad.  The fried fish tasted good (also good with the spicy tartar sauce that came with the platter), but the outside wasn't just crispy - it was as hard as a rock.  I was biting so hard to get through the outside that I was chewing a bone (large bone for a fish) before I knew it.  A piece got jammed down between two of my teeth, and misaligned my bite until I got back to the hotel to floss it out (fortunately the teeth returned to their normal positions).  Obviously, this detracted somewhat from the overall experience, and I didn't ask for the dessert menu.

Guam - Breakfast

I went to Shirley's Coffee Shop, thinking it would be a small cafe of some kind (I found it on a map), but it was actually more like Denny's. It was a local chain, though, so the menu reflected that a little: I got the Chamorro scramble - eggs and Chamorro sausage, which tastes a little bit like kielbasa with a kick.

Macau

Tried mainly baked goods - especially Portuguese egg tarts, including a coffee-flavored on. Also had a huge lunch in a Portuguese restaurant - casserole full of cod, onions, and cream, basically. Tasty for just a bite, but not something you want to eat so much of.

Brunch

Gallery Cafe

Asparagus Quiche, served with greens & balsamic dressing - good!

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)