Travel Diaries Hong Kong 2006 Day 11 Evening - Earthquake | Day 11 Evening - Earthquake |
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This evening we are going for Singaporean cuisine with Clara's cousin Bonnie and her Singaporean husband Jean. We took a number 23 bus down the hill to Wan Chai close to where the meal would be. We stopped off in a local bakery to get some buns for tomorrow morning and found Jean in the bakery as well! We walked the five minutes to the restaurant, a small, unnoticable place on a backstreet in Wan Chai. After getting inside and sat down Jean told us that this was the favourite place for the Singaporean society and hence must be very authentic - so it was good that the expert had brought us here! Jean works in an IT company and Bonnie owns a small shop and they live quite far away near the Tsing Ma bridge. We started the meal with a herby soup with spare ribs in it, this was followed by Singapore chicken rice - yellow chicken served with a dipping sauce. We also had some spicy beef which was kind of like an indian curried beef and was quite spicy. It turns out that most Singaporean cuisine is very spicy! We also had a bean curd dish and some green vegetables. After these meals we had the speciality which Jean had ordered especially for us. Firstly we had black peppered crab, a whole crab served in a black pepper sauce. This is really messy to eat and you have to get black sauce all over you to get all the crab meat. Lastly we had Stingray in a very spicy paste. The stingray meat tastes quite different to fish and the texture is more like tuna than a smaller fish. There are pictures of both of these in the gallery. Jean insisted we had dessert and so ordered a Singapore dessert that was crushed ice over Chinese jelly and beans. This was another of the non-sweet Chinese desserts and not really my favourite dish of the night! We also had some green sponge cake, which looked more like a washing up sponge but tasted good and was the lightest cake I have ever had! Lastly we had a small piece of cake that was striped, this was also very nice and being sweet was my favourite dessert! After the meal Clara heard the owner of the restaurant on the phone. When she got off she came over and told us that there had been an earthquake in Hong Kong this evening. We didn't feel anything but in the taxi on the way home the news said that there was a 10 second quake about 7pm this evening measuring just over 3 on the Richter scale - so only very small! Seems like we're having all the strange weather while I'm here! We took a taxi home for the restaurant, feeling full again! Tomorrow we are going to visit the Wetlands Park in the new territories and then are having a sea food dinner with Clara's auntie's, one of which has come over from Canada. Things I have learned this evening:
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