Hong Kong Day 13 - Lamma Island and Yak Cheese

Went to Lamma island and walked from one ferry pier, at Sok Kwu Wan, to another, at Yung Shue Wan. We snacked on some Garden wafers for brunch, so we were pretty hungry by the end of the 3.5 hour walk. Unfortunately, we couldn't reach these bananas (I guess they're not exactly ripe, either)
so we stopped by a roadside stand for some tofu dessert (hey, that picture is probably from the same stand!). Despite the general feeling of sketchiness of eating from roadside stalls, I think it was actually pretty clean. Apparently tofu goes bad really easily if it's not clean, so you'd be able to tell whether there was anything wrong with the tofu. So the only thing to worry about would be the cleanliness of the utensils, but those were all disposable - at least I remember that the spoon was. Anyway, the tofu dessert (tofu-fa) was really refreshing and good.

We just missed the ferry back to Hong Kong island, so we killed an hour by going for afternoon tea at one of the many little cafes in Yung Shue Wan. Many of the eateries in that village are opened by expats, although this one wasn't. I think a lot of expats get tired of the crowds in Hong Kong and escape out to the outlying islands for fresher air and a more laid-back lifestyle. In any case, I suppose an expat-run restaurant mightn't have sold these fish sticks and (admittedly pretty good) wedge fries as fish and chips:
Oh well, it was pretty cheap.

At dinner, we went to the Soho area to a Nepalese restaurant. I guess Nepalese food is pretty similar to some Indian cuisine. The food at this restaurant was quite flavourful, but maybe not as strong as the Indian restaurants I've been to. We had a chicken dish (believe it was called Royal Chicken - check the menu) similar to chicken korma - the yellow dish on the left, it was a mild curry with a nutty almond taste. Probably my favourite of the curries. The two red dishes were a lamb dish (khasi-ko bhutuwa?) and a fish dish (macha raja janakpuri?), both only somewhat spicy but still quite nice. I did end up drinking a lot of water despite the lack of heat, but maybe there was a lot of salt in the food as well. Anyway, we also had a vegetable dish (something with asparagus), some saffron rice, and garlic naan.
The drinks are also worth mentioning. There are two interesting teas on the menu: Himalayan Ilam tea and Royal Nepalese tea, both, strangely enough, described by the server as "just normal tea." Well, the Himalayan Ilam tea was pretty normal - similar to a Chinese tea. The Royal Nepalese, on the other hand, was quite different. This milk tea (evaporated milk or maybe a heavy cream) had many different spices infused in, including several strands of saffron floating on top. It was somewhat like a chai tea at an Indian restaurant, except the spices were less aromatic and sweet, and more sharp and spicy.

We had two desserts: a homemade yogurt, the remnants of which you can see on the top left corner of the picture, and some yak cheese. The yogurt was very sweet and aromatic. Not bad. The cheese was alright, somewhat sharp like an older provolone. However, there was a bitter/metallic aftertaste that I didn't dig all that much. I wonder if the cheese has been sitting in their fridge for ages.