Being a little bit of an American too now means that when we see molten chocolate (20 mins preparation time) on the menu, it makes our mouth water. Unfortunately, America does these better than Hong Kong, although it was not too bad not too bad...
Showing posts with label Hong Kong. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Hong Kong. Show all posts
Friday, February 20, 2009
Being Dutch
Being Dutch means that you sometimes say "Kunnen we niet gewoon een broodje eten voor lunch?" ("Can't we just have a (ordinary) sandwich for lunch?") God knows why. Sandwiches are boring, especially those from Oliver's.
Being a little bit of an American too now means that when we see molten chocolate (20 mins preparation time) on the menu, it makes our mouth water. Unfortunately, America does these better than Hong Kong, although it was not too bad not too bad...
Being a little bit of an American too now means that when we see molten chocolate (20 mins preparation time) on the menu, it makes our mouth water. Unfortunately, America does these better than Hong Kong, although it was not too bad not too bad...
Monday, February 16, 2009
Maxim's (美心)
Another dinner at a mall restaurant today. Why you ask? Because Hong Kong is one gigantic shopping mall!
We had crispy barbecued pork, roast duck, string beans with minced meat, and tofu with seafood. Not too bad. However, food in Hong Kong pales in comparison to the food in our natural habitat. Only 5 more days and we'll go back!!!
We had crispy barbecued pork, roast duck, string beans with minced meat, and tofu with seafood. Not too bad. However, food in Hong Kong pales in comparison to the food in our natural habitat. Only 5 more days and we'll go back!!!
Sunday, February 15, 2009
Mall food
We've found some restaurants in Hong Kong that we enjoy: simple and tasty food. Yesterday we went back to Hay Hay, which really has the best goose in Hong Kong (sadly, we forgot our camera). Today we went to a mall in Sha Kok, and had some nice vegetables and mushrooms, fish and pork stew.
Thursday, February 12, 2009
Best restaurant in Hong Kong
Surprisingly yet conveniently, the best Chinese restaurant in Hong Kong is located around the corner from our hotel, unbeknownst to the rest of the world.This is where you can eat really good roasted pigeon and get served beer by girls in the appropriate beer costume (with very short skirt).
Frites
Hong Kong has a good Belgian restaurant called Frites. Like everything else in Hong Kong, it is quite expensive, so we had the cheapish "express dinner" yesterday. Weirdly, it did not include FRITES, so Frans had to order his fix separately.
Chick
Because Hong Kongers are much more sophisticated than Beijingers, we decided to try to go to a concert again (see here for a report on the last time).
We were not allowed to take photos, so the photo we did take is not very good/interesting. But the discerning viewer may be able to recognize Chick Corea, whom Frans has now heard perform on 3 different continents. Yay for Chick and yay for Frans!
We were not allowed to take photos, so the photo we did take is not very good/interesting. But the discerning viewer may be able to recognize Chick Corea, whom Frans has now heard perform on 3 different continents. Yay for Chick and yay for Frans!
Sea thingies!
Our "bosses" took us out to lunch on Tuesday. We went to the same place as before (with the O.R. people) but an even better restaurant (hey, we don't have a Turing-Award-winner-with-lots-and-lots-of-grant-money as a boss for nothing!)
Our associate director Amy always does a great job ordering the foodz at our institute's get-togethers!
We had an awesome lunch with really delicious food.
Afterwards, Amy was really unhappy though --- apparently when we go out with Andy (the boss and Turing-Award-winner himself) in Beijing we get some sort of special VIP treatment, and Amy was very unhappy with the fact that this did not happen here. She even had to make an effort to get a waiter's attention apparently.
It is beyond us why anyone would care about this, but I believe Amy has made it clear to the restaurant that things can really not continue like this, or we will not be back next year!
Our associate director Amy always does a great job ordering the foodz at our institute's get-togethers!
We had an awesome lunch with really delicious food.
Afterwards, Amy was really unhappy though --- apparently when we go out with Andy (the boss and Turing-Award-winner himself) in Beijing we get some sort of special VIP treatment, and Amy was very unhappy with the fact that this did not happen here. She even had to make an effort to get a waiter's attention apparently.It is beyond us why anyone would care about this, but I believe Amy has made it clear to the restaurant that things can really not continue like this, or we will not be back next year!
Sunday, February 8, 2009
Hiking with the Harvard Club of Hong Kong (updated)
Today we did a small hike. It is pretty weird to be on a mountain surrounded by civilization.
(If you look closely, you can see Anke standing on a rock in the middle of the photo.)
In this little village (the end point of our hike), we had some great Indian food (not pictured).
Update:
(If you look closely, you can see Anke standing on a rock in the middle of the photo.)
In this little village (the end point of our hike), we had some great Indian food Update:
Thursday, February 5, 2009
Seafoodz and meeting old friends...
This morning we ran into Frans's old boss from the Netherlands. Yes, yes, it is a small world blah blah.
He invited us to a seminar, and after that the department invited us along for dinner. Food was great. Also, it was so wonderful to be with O.R. people again. We cannot recall the last time we had a "networking" dinner when the atmosphere was not completely strained and awkward!
He invited us to a seminar, and after that the department invited us along for dinner. Food was great. Also, it was so wonderful to be with O.R. people again. We cannot recall the last time we had a "networking" dinner when the atmosphere was not completely strained and awkward!
Wednesday, February 4, 2009
Duck!
Even though we had some nice goose, and very nice pigeon (sadly we never took a picture of the pigeon), I still miss Beijing, in particular Beijing duck (it's been more than 3 weeks!). So on Tuesday we went to Spring Deer, which the Fodor's describes thusly: "[...] the Peking duck is the showstopper --- it might be the best in town".
It was a very interesting roast duck, but I would highly recommend a trip to Beijing for anyone in Hong Kong who is interested in Beijing Duck. (Really, these coarse cuts and fat pancakes would be laughed off the table there. And don't get me started on the skin.)
It was a very interesting roast duck, but I would highly recommend a trip to Beijing for anyone in Hong Kong who is interested in Beijing Duck. (Really, these coarse cuts and fat pancakes would be laughed off the table there. And don't get me started on the skin.)
Lunch at the university
Hong Kong = dim sum. These barbecue pork thingies were very tasty...
... as were the chicken feet (top of the picture --- best chicken feet we've had in China). The soup dumplings (right) were not too bad either. The intestines with ginger leave room for improvement.
... as were the chicken feet (top of the picture --- best chicken feet we've had in China). The soup dumplings (right) were not too bad either. The intestines with ginger leave room for improvement.
Day 2: lunch and 2 dinners
Sunday was Fodor's day. First of all, Fodor's had a great recommendation for lunch: Hay Hay. The goose here was very very good --- everything was very flavorful.
For the first dinner, we went for tapas at Bocas. We had a nice Pinot Grigio, which we paired with...
... a spinach salad with wllnuts and blue cheese croutons...
... baby octopus...
... and some lovely sardines.
Our restaurant for our second dinner was also recommended by Fodor's: Yung Kee, everybody's favorite restaurant as we could see in the many pages of the menu that showed off all the awards they have won.
The eggs were disgustingly great, sulphurous like hell.
We've acquired a taste for Chinese wine, and must say the wine here is excellent.
But the piece of the resistence was of course the goose. Very nicely done, and the apricot sauce was wonderful...
For the first dinner, we went for tapas at Bocas. We had a nice Pinot Grigio, which we paired with...
... a spinach salad with wllnuts and blue cheese croutons...
... baby octopus...
... and some lovely sardines.Our restaurant for our second dinner was also recommended by Fodor's: Yung Kee, everybody's favorite restaurant as we could see in the many pages of the menu that showed off all the awards they have won.
The eggs were disgustingly great, sulphurous like hell.
We've acquired a taste for Chinese wine, and must say the wine here is excellent.
But the piece of the resistence was of course the goose. Very nicely done, and the apricot sauce was wonderful...
Hong Kong
On Saturday we arrived in Hong Kong. Everything is different here: language, buildings (larger), traffic (faster, driving on the left), people (more Indonesian (Malay?)-looking), greenery (existent), pollution (not so bad), climate, food (we miss Beijing), quality of everything else (much better, including the fact that we can find good wines and cheeses!), shops (luxury brands), cleanliness (people are given a bowl at the start of the meal in a restaurant, so they clean their own glass and utensils at the table using tea/hot water before they use them), manners/habits (no spitting, no babies pissing and shitting on the streets), etc. etc.Our first lunch consisted of dim sum, which seems quite popular here.
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