hk june 08 - food food food
1) All photos taken using my super duper sibeh canggih Nokia N82.
2) You can click on the photos to view a larger version. It’s okay, we are all a bit blind sometimes.
When we touched down at the airport, the first thing that came to my mind was… KRISPY KREME! Well, what to do… we don’t have it here in Malaysia (yet) and all you people kept going on about how marvelous it is and how delicious and how everything, that I felt I ought to give it a try. Not VERY affordable, okay… half a dozen for HK$110 for freakin’ doughnuts!
The Krispy Kreme outlet at the Hong Kong international airport
Erna and I bought half a dozen to be shared. And this is my Krispy Kreme New York cheesecake doughnut that I could not finish consuming, because my family has a history of diabetes and I didn’t want to take my chances.
Got my saliva somewhere
My colleague tumpang a dozen from me. When he received and tasted it, he remarked that the Hong Kong version was too sweet — apparently he got some in Jakarta and the sugar level was very much acceptable. But not the Hong Kong one. I am sticking to Big Apple for my doughnut fix 
We stayed at the BP International for our first night in Hong Kong. Package included breakfast, so…
Breakfast of champions!
Erna was very amused by my sandwich. It tasted awesome! The bacon was crispy and crunchy, the omelette had cheese and mushroom and ham and capsicum, the thousand island sauce because I am Malaysian. As I bit into my very delicious sandwich, I could feel my arteries clogging up. But it was worth it. I suppose in 20 years’ time I’d look back and slap myself for wittingly screwing up my internal organs but that’s 20 years away!
Second evening in Tsim Tsa Tsui, we decided to eat cheap(er). Wandered into a random restaurant but the only available table was next to the toilet. So we decided to tar pau balik to our hotel room instead.
Beef ball noodles with oyster sauce
You know, when it was written ‘beef ball noodles with oyster sauce’, I didn’t expect beef ball noodles WITH oyster sauce… I thought they’d at least mix the sauce like how we get our wantan mee here. I suppose I should not take such things for granted. It doesn’t look very appetising, right? Well, it wasn’t.
One evening in Central district, we walked back to Lan Kwai Fong for beer, and decided to have our dinner at a German pub called Schnurrbart. Mostly because it was cosy, we were tired and lazy to go elsewhere, beer is always fantastic, and the bartender was very helpful with giving us directions to Stanley etc.
Typical German pub food - PORK sausages, fried potatoes and sauerkraut, yum!
We also ate at McDonalds once, at Burger King once and a quick sandwich at Pret a Manger. And a English breakfast set on the morning before we left for home. Familiar stuff can be comforting, heh.
Another noodly meal at one of the roadside restaurants:
Bread, egg, and noodles with pork chop
We had our last evening meal in Hong Kong at a restaurant located a short distance from our hotel. Looked promising because there were a lot of people eating there. Heh, that’s almost always my gauge for edible (hopefully food) food. A typical conversation would go something like this:
“Let’s check out this restaurant/ food place!”
“Oh? What do they sell?”
“No idea. But there are lots of people in there! Shouldn’t be too bad.”
We got an order of deep-fried chicken wings because we saw it being delivered to one of the customers. Apparently the restaurant was well-known for it. Not bad.
Deep-fried chicken wings with spice
And more noodles! Thankfully this one was a bit different, with the soup being of the hot and sour kind. Plus you could add whatever ingredients you wanted — assorted parts of the pig, sotong balls, etc.
A big bowl of noodles in hot and sour soup
I bought back some ‘lou poh bing‘ because Pinky insisted that I get some to try. Hmmm… tasted like any Chinese pastries that I can get here in Malaysia I shared it with some noobs and they seemed to like it
Noobs eating wife’s cake
For the record, Kim had only one. I took two photos of her eating that single one, that’s all
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All blog posts on this trip:
- hk june 08 - the obligatory ‘i waz there’ photos
- hk june 08 - food food food
- hk june 08 - things you can buy with money
- hk june 08 - what little alcohol tales
- hk june 08 - when relieving yourself is not a relief
- Flickr set for Hong Kong 2008 trip
Tags: bacon, doughnuts, hong kong, krispy kreme, noodles, pork
Krispy Kreme!
I <3 the maple syrup glazed one but could feel my teeth dissolving in the massive amount of sugar…
And I’m still amazed you remembered all the stuff we ate…
eh you forgot to mention the street food. Roadside pork sausages and cuttlefish…
what’s wrong with Kim eating only one? She deserves a dozen!
Yummy. I can go HK once again just for the food…
And I was staying at BP last time as well.
erna: heh it’s easy to remember when you can refer to the pix. didn’t take photos of the street food, so forgot about them
KY: if i didn’t say that, you would have said something like, KIM ATE TWO?!?!
YJ: heh not too shabby hotel right? I loved it
lorporbing was teh awesome!!! i could eat a dozen!!!
omfg food glorious food! breakfast of the champions is really one pile of f**s but I’ve been craving for it sigh..
It’s bacon-shopping today for me lol
The news (The Edge? NST? not sure) said some company is bringing Krispy Kreme to our shores - maybe.
See, that is why you ought to watch the Olympics: get inspiration..
Michael Phelps, on his short-term goal in life:
Phelps, who is said to require 8,000 to 10,000 calories a day to sustain his efforts, spent much of his free time napping or in pursuit, as he puts it, of “whatever I want to eat, whenever I want it, however much I want.”
Isn’t it a great life: eat a lunch for two and not worry about diabetes or flabby abs!
Hey, the N82 can take some really good photos. I really want to go to Lan Kwai Fong. I must plan a trip to Hong Kong sometime this year.
…and that sandwich is indeed the breakfast of champions!
Yea, I think Krispy Kreme there is too sweet for my liking too. It’s about HKD80 for half a dozen at Sheung Wan.
kim: oO good for you!
won’t overdose?
tock2: hah i must do that soon also. just a lot of work if you are doing the cooking yourself, heh
GS: are you waiting in anticipation?
suertes: hmmm… brb i go eat another doughnut
HB: did a teeny bit of brightness adjustment on photoshop, but yah overall it is excellent for a mobile cam. get one!
bryan: oO airport price la.. patut pun
breakfast was buffet style ? u made it urself?. thats quite award winning presentation.
krispy kreame………. evil…… last i had was in the State, American taste a.k.a 200% sugar
hot and sour soup? taste like laksa?
i’ll invite you over when i actually buy those lean bacon. or should i get those fatty ones zomg. been cooking dinner myself alot, quite fun and guarantee u won’t die after eating my cooking
but there are lots of people everywhere in any HK food establishment……quite a few even need to take a bloody queue number to get a table….
aeroplane: heahehae pile on the food and make your own breakfast! hot sour soup tasted like hot sour soup. nothing like laksa lah, at least not the one i had before
tock2: hah sure
ront: heh not the places we went to
krispy kreme is too sweet everywhere. not just the hk version.
Cheh Chai Mien - the noodle that you can put your own condiment to put in
Very nice, look quite delicious, among them i love that sandwich the most!