Hong Kong Day 2

Breakfast:
We went to Delifrance for some pseudo-French pastries:
Almond croissant

Curry beef puff

Both were pretty buttery and crunchy, although a bit expensive. Standard stuff. Also had coffee, and an apple flavoured green tea which was good but nothing special. It turns out that drinks cost a premium here. For instance, the almond croissant and curry beef puff were 12HKD and 19HKD each (just under $2 and $3 CAD each) while the drinks were 18HKD each.

Lunch:
Went to Lo Chiu (Old Chiu) in Jordan for some Vietnamese. There's a cariacature of the owner on the placemat. The drinks in the picture are an Ice Cendol (yeh jup sam sik bing - coconut three colour ice) and a green bean ice (yeh jup luk dau bing). Fun to eat, but a bit too much coconut milk, which you can see floating at the top, making the drinks a bit too heavy for my tastes.
We shared some grilled beef tenderloin with red fried rice (ngau lau lup chow hong fan or something like that). Very delicious. The tenderloin was indeed tender, and had that nice smoky taste of grilled meat, Vietnamese style. The rice was a bit sweet. Also tasty.
Below is a dish of deep fried soft shell crab. This was the best example of the dish that I've had so far in my life (admittedly, I haven't had much soft shell crab). The amount of spice was just right - often, places overdo it and it's like eating potato chips - and there were nice big chunks of meat.
Our HK host had some soup noodles - fairly standard.

Afternoon snack:
As we walked around the Central district of Hong Kong island, we found ourselves in Lan Kwai Fong, the sort-of bar crawling district. We checked out a sandwich place called "La Baguette." Had a Brie, Bacon and Avocado sandwich on a white baguette (split 3 ways), and some Hoegaarden. Good sandwich, although the brie wasn't that strong and maybe got lost a bit.


Dinner:
We got caught up doing some other stuff after our snack so we didn't head out for dinner until about 11pm. There weren't too many open restaurants around - we're staying a bit off the main tourist areas - so we ended up going to McDonalds. The stuff there is a bit different but it's still McDonalds. We had a grilled chicken sandwich which was basically a pseudo-teriyaki chicken thigh on a bun, and a black pepper beef flatbread, which was just what it sounds like. Notice that you can get curly fries here. Oh, and I had an apple pie - the deep fried kind, not the weird baked ones that they have in Canada now.


Afterwards, we rode the tram (2HKD or about 30 cents) all the way to Sheung Wan for fun. We wanted to go to a dessert place called Honeymoon Desserts but they were just about to close. In contrast to Canada though, here even though they are closed, they always try to make the sale: someone still came out to tell us that, even though they were closing, we could get some mango pudding and other stuff for takeout. We didn't though - maybe we'll come back another time.