Saturday activities in Lamma Island

This is the first time we ventured out to the outlying islands (for almost 2 years we’ve been in&out of HK, of course excluding HK and Lantau islands )

The day started well with a bus ride straight to Central to meet our friends. We even managed to get some tasty Chinese breakfast at the [...]

Food in Macau 1

We were in lovely Macau last November 2009 (another one of those border-crossing exercise ) for 5 days & it was such a nice experience. Sure it is a small place (& we only explored the peninsula side), but oh boy, there’s lot’s to see, eat & do! We ate so much while we [...]

HK JPTimeTV 香港aTV じゃぱナビ

It a TV show on aTV on Sunday at 6:25pm. I do often miss it as we’re out on Sunday afternoon, but you can watch missed episodes on their website (http://www.jptime.tv/ an ancient website which sometimes has issues with my browsers, but it’ll get there in the end). It’s the first (& only) HK locally [...]

街市2 More Wet Market photos

I found more photos of Wet Markets – some are from Sai Kung – they’re vintage as after the SARS, there’s hardly any live chickens kept & sold at the markets anymore. Got photos other than fish vendors. There are some from Korea – variety of Kimchee there is astonishing! I’d love to go back [...]

Food in London July ‘09

Not as bad as you think, & certainly as I remember – from my first trip to that side of the world in 2000…
Although the exchange rate has significantly improved (from 25p=AUD1, to 50p=AUD1), prices of food & drinks hasn’t seem to have changed?!?! Definitely there are more proper ‘cafe’ type places around, such as [...]

高尾山・卯かい懐石 Kaiseki experience in Takaozan

It was Mike’s first time in Japan (therefore, Tokyo) & it was very nice of mum & dad to take us to a trip up (well, sort of, to the foothills) to Mt Takao, a Michellin travel guide 3 star tourist destination, to enjoy the first of autumn colours, as well as a Kaiseki lunch [...]

たこ焼き Octopus Balls in Osaka

We both liked Osaka, which has a different vibe to Tokyo, the big metropolis that I’m used to. Osaka is more like HK in a sense – a bit chaotic, people are louder (or just Tokyo people are too polite & reserved), lot’s of food, particularly street snacks. One of the famous street snacks in [...]