Day Two: I met with my old Managing Editor on B&T/Travel Week and good friend Tony Kelly for lunch, I rode the MTR to Sheung Wan and walked to his office on Des Voeuxs Street West. We took the Mid-Levels escalators to SoHo (south of Hollywood Road) to eat our lunch at a nice Vietnamese place.
I also bought a HK sim card as the travel sim I bought in Oz proved to be rather crappy and unreliable. After lunch I wandered around Queens Road Central and went to Marks and Spencers, the first time in 3 years that I have entered its hallowed doors! I went straight to the food hall and feasted with my eyes - since I've been diagnosed as being gluten intolerant it has curbed my eating habits considerably, and M&S was no exception, but I did manage to come away with a yummy crayfish salad for my dinner.
The MTR (Mass Transit Railway) here is cheap and amazingly efficient and there are stations everywhere.
This is an advert used in the MTR stations to encourage people to hold onto the handrails on the escalators... good to see that Monkey Magic is still getting some work!
I have a tiny kitchen in my hotel room (its in the middle of this photo where the white towel is near the corner of the bed) so decided to visit Sogo in Causeway Bay to stock up with some basics.
Its a perfect mix of traditional Chinese food and western specialities like a cheese counter. By this time it was around 6pm and it was heaving with people - its Chinese New Year on February 14th and people were stocking up - its a massive holiday in HK and everything pretty much closes down for a few days.
I saw these pots of instant curry in 2 of the most bizarre flavours imaginable, hmmmm which to pick Kim-chi or Cheese Curry flavour...
Who wouldn't buy Pork that is 'health conscious'??
These are tiny crabs about the size of a 50c coin that are dried or deep fried (hard to tell!) and then covered in sesame seeds and chilli, I can't imagine what these would taste like or how high the crunch factor is on them.
Now these are some expensive strawberries HK$198 (AU$30 or GBP 16)!
Day Three: Today I was tired, still getting used to the strange hard bed and the traffic sounds, so no big plans. Breakfast and the restaurant are great!
This is the view: the pool and smoggy skyline.
This is my breakfast: goats cheese, pineapple, sausages, pork congee and some provolone-type meat. This is one of the times that I am glad that I don't eat gluten anymore or I would be the size of a house - no pancakes, waffles, toast or pastries for me (or even baked beans!) I am addicted to congee, the idea of a savoury rice porridge sounds yucky, but it tastes very much like chicken and sweetcorn soup you get at a chinese restaurant.
Lots of wandering (and getting lost) today. I found a very good supermarket just around the corner from the hotel, which claims to be a 'frozen meat specialist' on their shopping bags.
These are all different kinds of fish balls you add to soups - the pizza flavoured ones caught my eye.
Yum - chicken feet and tripe section.
This is the old-school butcher dept.
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