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This evening we went out for a meal in a Shanghai cuisine restaurant close to the bottom of the hill in an area called Lan Kwai Fong. This area is basically the area of most bars and is mostly full with people having a drink after work, and also with many tourists. We got to the restaurant by walking down the hill, via many flights of stairs until we eventually got to the restaurant on the fourth floor of a nondescript building. I'm not really sure how anyone konws the restaurant is there as the doorway just looks like the enterance to an office block and only when you reach the fourth floor do you see the restaurant! There were six of us for the meal including Grace, Sunny, Clara's parents, myself and Clara and the restaurant was similar to the other Chinese restaurants I had been in before, apart from it served food from northern China, the Shanghai area. We started the meal with some smoked ducks eggs served cold with a runny yolk and some white pepper. This was shortly followed by some cold pork solidified with some jelly, some jellyfish tentacles (very stringy but not much taste, also served cold) and some bean curd fried in a sausage roll shape with mushrooms inside. Next we had some tomato flavoured soup with vegetables in, served with crispy rice that had been shaped like flapjack. It was kind of like eating weetabix and milk when the weetabix goes soft!
The main courses for the meal were spicy chicken with cashew nuts - definitely quite spicy if you accidentally eat a chilli like I did, some chinese vegetables and some spare ribs in a sweet and sour sauce, all served with some rice. Finally for desert we had some warm dough with red been paste inside, sort of like savoury doughnuts! As much as I like trying new things I think I still prefer a sweeter desert that we have in the UK, the Chinese don't really seem to have that much of a sweet tooth! After the meal Clara's parents went back home and the four of us went for a drink in Lan Kwai Fong. We went to a bar called Fong where we had possibly the most expensive round of drinks I have ever had - four drinks cost about 17 pounds (but three of them were cocktails). Clara and Grace had an Orea cocktail. Oreo's are chocolate biscuits with cream inside that are really only available in Asia. The cocktail was made from blended biscuits, with milk and chocolate and fresh cream on top - basically it was a meal in a glass and I'm not sure how they ate it all after the meal! After the first drink Grace had to go back to her office to talk to New York, who being 12 hours behind had just come online. We took Sunny for a final drink in a westernised bar where I even managed to get a pint of Tetley's - which tasted pretty much as it does at home! Finally it was getitng late and we walked Sunny back to the Hong Kong ferry terminal. Just as we left the bar, the heaven's opened and the rain started to pour down. Luckily we could get most of the way back undercover, but this did mean some shortcuts through buildings, including one where the security guards let us through, only to find out that all the doors were locked inside! After getting under the covered walkways we managed to get back to the ferry terminal fairly dry, but by now the rain had turned torrential. We dropped Sunny off as he bought his ticket for the 11pm ferry home and caught a taxi back to our house. In the taxi it was now I began to see why there was a problem with landslides as the rain was pouring down. Once home it was straight to bed. The weather forecast for tomorrow was not great so we would wait until the morning to see if we could go to Lamma Island... |
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