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Food shopping in SSP
SSP is full of snack & food shops to cater for the market crowd and residents, just like Mongkok. As well as the usual deep-fried intestines & all type snack shops, drinks shops etc, there are some traditional Chinese desserts shops. The one I went today is just outside the B2 exit of the MTR [...]
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漁米之鄕 Food Village
漁米之鄕 (Food Village), inside Sunshine Bazzare Shopping Centre, Ma On Shan)
Another of our regular eatery, it’s quite a big Cha-chaan-teng (Chinese cafe) inside a small shopping centre annex to a bigger shopping mall (Sunshine City Plaza). We love their 中式牛柳 (Chinese beef steak), so we usually go for that + sometimes their giant prawn egg [...]
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馬鞍山粥麺小餐廳 Ma On Shan Restaurant
馬鞍山粥麺小餐廳 Ma On Shan Restaurant
Looking at this photo, it reminded me of Seifeld’s restaurant… you know the one? The diners they go in for sandwiches all the time with ‘Restaurant’ signs from both sides? Well, you can have sandwiches, coffees (as well as noodles, congee, roast duck, fish etc etc) at MOSR as well! The inside [...]
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Mid Autumn Festival 中秋節
Mid Autumn Festival, Moon Festival, Lantern Festival, all one and the same thing, was yesterday (3 October 2009). There’s lots of history behind this Chinese festival, from story of war-torn era with hidden secret slip inside mooncakes (George told me that yesterday) to legend of beautiful princess (hence the decoration on some mooncake boxes… again [...]
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一輝茶餐廳 (a.k.a. No.1)
Affectionately called No.1 by us, 一輝茶餐廳 is a local diner-type place & if we’re in MOS, you’re most likely to see us there, at least 1h everyday. Well, may be not weekends as we may explore other parts of HK (& Sundays get hell busy with families & takeaways as maids’ day off). Everyone there’s [...]
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Superfood Series: Sweet Potatoes 薩摩芋
Japanese people like their’s reddish/purple skinned, yellow/cream inside, HK people seem to like it quite soft & there’s purple, orange (Kiwi Kumura’s) and brown varieties, but I think the health benefits very similar. I saw this doco once where they showed intestines of pigs fed exclusively sweet potatoes compared to those with other diets. Intestines [...]
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Superfood Series: Chickpeas 健康食品シリーズ：ひよこ豆
I couldn’t help myself, could I??? Some of you may know I actually studied chickpeas in my research M.Sc., so this is my pet topic! It seems so long ago I was at uni, slaving away in the Food Sci chem labs… I’m not interested in looking back at my thesis right now, but anyway, [...]
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eggplant melanzane
Eggplants are plentiful, fresh & cheap at the moment, and I like pickling them in an Italian way. Melanzane (pronounced melan’zar-nee’) is eggplants pickled in vinegar & olive oil with herbs.
It’s really easy to make, so there’s no point buying expensive imported jars (they’re often too vinegary or oily). This recipe is from a family [...]
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深水埗 Sham Sui Po
Sham Sui Po (affectionately called SSP by us) apparently is a Hong Kong Tourist Board’s answer to Japan’s Akihabara… Now, there are similarities (electrical components shops, computers etc), but ummm… I’d say you’d have to go to Akihabara to experience it yourself – it’s more like combination of Mongkok & SSP, with a bit of [...]
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西貢 Sai Kung
Sai Kung, a waterfront ‘garden’ of Hong Kong, is on the east side (despite the name) of Kowloon/New Territories. No longer a small fishing village, it has developed along with the rest of Hong Kong, but due to its seaside location, distance & limited public transport (no MTR station here… yet), there is a nice [...]