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For those whom are looking forward to an onslaught of HK food pics here will be very disappointed because I didn’t take all that many…

… reason being, most of the time, I was dining with friends/relatives whom I’ve not seen in a while therefore the last thing I would want to do is whip-out a camera and start snapping away at the food on the table.

The only time I was able to take pics of food was when I was by myself. Here are a few:

Pic above: Wonton and fish ball with noodle (wun tun yuu daan mein). You’ve gotta eat wonton noodles in HK, period!

Chilli fish balls (laat yuu daan). Fish balls, which are usually skewered on a stick, is also a must try. As you can see from the pic, one rolled off as I put down the cup. Doh!

Thousand year egg and sliced pork congee (pei daan sau yuuk juuk). Also a must try. Basically, it is rice porridge with pork and egg… some kinda black egg, that is.

Fatty pork with instant noodles. I’ve always wondered what it is like to drink a jar of oil. Now I know. On this night, I met up with Joyce and Carrie for a drink in the famous Lan Kwai Fong area of Central. When I met them, I realised they hadn’t yet had dinner, while I did. So I accompanied them for dinner. I was already full but I ordered this anyway for a try. Maybe because I was full, this dish was especially horrible and… greasy.

Carrie’s drink at some bar in Lan Kwai Fong. Forgot what this is but it is probably a pretty standard drink, globally… I think.

Steamboat (foor woor), or whatever you want to call it. Boil your own veg, pork, beef, fish, shell fish, + all sorts in the special soup.

Pigeon (yuu gaap). Well, it’s small and tastes like… in between chicken and duck.

Turtle tea (gwai leen cha). Some kind of herbal medicated tea/soup containing something to do with some kinda turtle (I think turtle shell). Supposedly good for all kinds of illness. Well, I had mouth ulcers and a sore throat when I asked what was good at the herbal shop. The woman said, “turtle jelly is best (gwai leen go)”, but I told her that I preferred something ‘to drink’ rather than something ‘to eat’ so she threw this at me.

Yes! Hainanese chicken rice (hoi lam gai faan). Finally got a decent Hainanese chicken rice!

Roast pork and duck with rice (char app faan). Definitely my all-time-fav. Had this on most days in HK. This is the stuff you see hanging in the window of Chinese restaurants.

Roast geese (seew ngor) and…

steamed chicken (baak cheet gai). Again, the typical stuff hanging in the window of Chinese restaurants. Had these two beasts at my auntie’s place.

So, this was pretty much it. Not pictured are stuff like Peking duck, Asian fusion dishes, wedding banquets, etc.

Note: the Cantonese pronunciation I’ve included for the dishes probably isn’t right since it is friggin’ impossible to write it with English letters