Many things happened in the last few weeks...including my 21st birthday! :) My friends and I went to Itacho Sushi to celebrate. Omnomnom.
The sushi was pretty tasty, but slightly on the expensive side. Oh well!
I also had 3 sake bombs over the course of dinner. It was my first time doing a sake bomb but apparently it was very delicious! Didn't really get buzzed at all, but I'm surprised I like the combination of beer and sake so much! They don't taste good on their own, imo.
Oh, and another thing: Apparently HKers don't DO sake bombs. Everyone in the restaurant looked at us weird and had their mouths gaping open cuz it was the first time they've seen anything like it. Hahahaha. Made me feel all uncomfortable and everything, because that's the ONLY way I've seen beer & sake taken!
<3 my girls that came out :)
Went to LKF to continue the celebrations! Thursday is ladies' night in LKF, so free cover and open bar until midnight for all the ladies!
LKF is packed with taxis taking people home after the subway stops running. It's kind of an interesting sight :)
Not food related, but I went to Wong Tai Sin a couple weekends ago! It's probably the grandest temple I've been to in my life (though I haven't been to THAT many, as I'm not religious). This is apparently the biggest and most famous temple in Hong Kong....I can see why.
Because it's kind of pretty :)
I also went to Huadu in mainland China for a history class trip. This is a wishing tree mimicking the original one in Hong Kong. I bought a wishing...ball (?) for 10RMB, wrote my wish on it, then tossed it onto the tree branch in one try. :) YAY it's gonna come true!
Got a little bored during our field trip and tried to have some fun in one of the ancestral halls ;)
Awesome ice cream dessert I had in Tsim Sha Tsui! The name of the place was really cute too--Tong Yun Gaai, which is a pun in Chinese for 'Chinatown.' Okay I'm not even gonna try to explain it online. Hahahaha.
Eating at undoubtedly my favorite dai pai dong in Fo Tan. That place has never disappointed. I can't believe they can even make lettuce taste SO good! My favorite here is the clams in black bean sauce. UNBEATABLE. SO GOOD. The owner of this place is also really nice, since he gave us a pound of shrimp on the house. They also gave us free chicken porridge the last time we were here too. SO DELISH!!
Something funny we stumbled upon in Yau Ma Tei while looking for the famous Temple Street. Old people outdoors under some crudely made tents....singing karaoke. They were seriously going at it hard with Chinese oldies (the famous ones I know of...like Shanghai Taan...LMAO) and some of them even had props! There were several of these tents next to each other. It was so amusing to watch!
A Taiwanese restaurant in Mongkok called 'Saai Mun Ding' that served rice/noodle dishes and Taiwanese appetizers. It was pretty decent but I'm sure there are better in Taiwan when I visit this December. :)
...This fried curry wonton though, was pretty dang good. It's crispy lumpia skin with ground pork and curry mix inside. Every single bite was highly audible and it was not greasy at all. Okay, maybe a little too crispy.
Beard Papa in Mongkok station. The prices were slightly cheaper than the American standard, AND they served FRESH fruits and cream inside these puffs! It was pretty amazing. The cream and fruit blended really well, but I do wish the puff was a little more fresh to match everything else. Nevertheless, it was really delicious.
After wandering around in Mongkok for a while, we headed to Causeway Bay afterwards since it's famous among locals for shopping. This photo was taken inside Times Square, which had WAAAY too many homo-sapiens walking around--seriously!
Wilson bought these roasted chestnuts from a street-side cart. The chestnuts are roasted by tossing them over a humongous wok with small bits of coal. After it's done, it is incubated to keep them warm inside a metal container. I must say, these chestnuts can get addictive... I need to stop myself from going to the train station to get them since I've seen them outside University stop...
Went to a restaurant called Satay King, which is supposedly pretty highly rated on Openrice.com. We went in early so there were still seats, but by the time we were finished, there was a huge line waiting to dine!
This looks quite unassuming, but it's actually one of their most popular dishes: fried shrimp rolls. Words cannot describe how deliciously complex the flavors are in each of these rolls. Omgah. The amount of crunch was undeniably perfect, and the shrimp was really rich in flavor. Mmm. Would love to go back just to get a couple of these.
A strange choice coming from me, but since I was craving cheese, I went for the baked cheese mushrooms (which is also another popular dish). One of the variety of mushrooms they used were...kind of strange with cheese. I don't know which kind it is, but it was cut too big to absorb the cheese flavor. The other varieties of mushrooms used were great choices, and it was actually really delicious. :9 Portions were kind of small, but I suppose too much of a good thing might be bad? (I don't see it) :P
We randomly walked past this milk dessert place and Wilson (UM, the lactose-intolerant!!) got something for himself. By this time I was already full to the brim, but I tried a bit anyways. Mmmm, needs more sugar. But the dessert itself was very rich in milk flavor. It just could be better if it was sweeter.
Ireland's Potato had a lot of business when we walked by, and I actually felt really sad that I was so full at the time. I looked at the menu and everything looked delicious! This place is rated rather decently high, and I can see why as I nibbled on one of Lannah's fries from here. ABSOLUTELY BOMB, and right out of the kitchen too! Will need to come back here someday.
........Hahahah just kidding, I'm not that desperate. :)
I hope you guys enjoyed this more or less FOODIE post! Hong Kong has really delicious food, but I'm pretty sure if I kept eating like this, I'd get effing ROUND and I won't be able to roll myself on the plane to get back to the states come December. After all, there's still Thailand this coming Thursday! And Taiwan mid-December. ;) There's way too much good food in this world I have yet to try...
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