Christie

From my Birthday wrapper,

Sometimes you need a friend

to say I understand,

and sometimes you a friend

who just listens and doesn’t say anything.

Friendship is warmth, comfort to share,

to listen, and sometimes to cry,

Thank you for making our friendship special.

Breakfast on a Sunday in HK

Orange skins drying on railings

In HK, most people don’t eat their breakfast at home.. Remember the HK drama series where the secretary or the minions would be buying back packs of Lai Cha ( milk tea) and sandwiches or noodles from char chan tengs or a doorway, its real. Most Hongkies would be way too rushed to prepare their own breakfast at home, so they would just buy from these places on the way to work or school.

Well, being only in HK for 1 day, it was a Sunday and we had to find ourselves some breakfast. We walked quite aimlessly, many shops were closed and most char chan teng are located on the 1st or 2nd floor(high rents) so it really wasn’t easy to find a place to eat. Yet, we manage to come to this ancient looking upstairs that was serving dim sum… the building was ancient, the workers were ancient, and it was a place the looked like no matter how much cleaning you do, it would still be grimy.. haha… Not much of a choice, we were hungry..

So then, having been served a pot of Chinese tea, like good Malaysians, we sat and waited for our nice liitle old lady to roll by with her cart of goodies… unfortunately that never came, they were slow as snails as like 15 minutes passes and they only come by with 1 dish of dim sum…

Malaysians will not recognize what this is either.

When my mum asked for some Har Gau (Shrimp Dumpling 蝦餃 ), the old lady told her to be patient, eat, drink and sit around first.. we were told later that it was a sunday tradition for people to come out and eat their dim sum for a time period of 3 hours o.O Needless to say being Malaysians, we ate 3 dishes, paid and was out of there in half an hour.

If you really like Lo Mai Kai (glutinous rice with chicken), you need to know that there is no such thing in HK. Feel free to ask though, you’ll probably end up with a replacement that looks like this,

Lotus Rice

In all the dim sum was actually quite horrible, tasteless and just too soft, with no texture whatsoever. Anyway, after that we wandered around again, mostly to appease my hunger and then we came to this little corner shop that had black and white newspaper cutting about the shop, at least i think it was… it was in Chinese.. so we walked in and stared at the Chinese menu for a while… the owner(an old man) kindly brought us an English menu after a while =p and so we had tea and toast.

Mmm.. Silky Milk Tea and French Toast…It was all Buttery, crispy and peanut buttery goodness… The tea was smooth, but nothing you can’t get at Kim Gary’s.. Maybe it is because they use this brand of Milk that it taste better… you’ll never know.. After its a FUSION Cow… Who knows?

Well, my other breakfasts HK did include more dim sum, so more pictures next time…

Holidays are over…

3 months of “break time” with pictures to show… ooOoohh…

When a friend asked how was my holidays, it got me thinking and so i told her, i spent it traveling, lots of walking, talking, viewing seasons of dvds, reading, contemplating, chatting, packing, watching, worrying, discussing, capturing and some time in silence.. It was all great, though still with unresolved issues bugging me…

When somethings are over we can talk about it, so here’s a little on the trip to Hong Kong that started the holidays.

Friends : Hong Kong?? You went to HK?? *Reactions of awe* O.O

So so.. Did you go to Disneyland??!! *Wide Eyes* 0.0

Me: Err… no…

Friends : What?? Why?? Did you go to the Wax Museum?? Touch any of the figurines *Eager anticipation* o.O

Me: Err… no..

Friends: Yer.. Did you go to the Ocean Park??? *Still hopeful* o.o’

Me : Erm… No…

Friends : The Peak *Smaller eyes* -.o”

Me : Oooh yes…

Friends: You are dull =.=”

Haha… yes, i didn’t play in any of the amusement parks, nor visit much of the famous streets of peddlers in HK like Lui Yan Kai, Miu Kai and such.. but in my defense i did walk pass these streets briefly… Haha.. so what did i do in 2 weeks? I like to say it’s pure pleasure, food and exploration.

Lunch wasn’t all that exciting, but made a discovery that alcohol is SO CHEAP… haha… yes i like to look at prices… haha.. The place i stayed at was near Lui Yan Kai but it looks a lot like Petaling Street back home.

My first dinner in HK – Korean

The side dishes came first, some sweet tapioca-ey dish, potatoes, vegetables, some type of korean pancake, herbal chicken with rice that had only mild herbal taste and really pleasant, spicy tofu dish and the awesome plate of beef slices, which we grilled over the stove *smacks lips*.

Here’s a the Sizzle of it all!

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