Hong Kong Days 14 and 15 - BBQ, Hokkaido, Mangosteen, and Sandwich
Day 14 - We hit up an upscale BBQ place called Canteen in the expat-rich IFC mall in Central. I'm amazed it took us that long to get to a pork-on type place, but I'm glad we made it. The prices weren't that cheap (after all, it's in a ritzy mall) but it was good. High quality meat with decent-sized portions. Each plate was about $5-6 Canadian.
I had a combo of BBQ duck and a soya-sauce chicken. The duck was very good, nice flavour and crispy skin. The chicken was kind of normal, which is alright with me since I like soya-sauce chicken. I liked the huge ball of ginger-green onion (geung chung) that went with the chicken.
Karen had a 3-meat special with BBQ pork (yummm...), roasted chicken (not much different than the soya-sauce chicken, maybe a bit sweeter on the outside), and red sausage (which wasn't too great - tasted artificial and weird), along with half a salted duck egg. Just a warning: when one encounters half a salted duck egg on a plate, one should not assume, as Karen did, that the egg has been shelled. Unless, of course, a mouthful of shell is your idea of a good time.
Our friend and host had a BBQ pork and roast pork combo. Dunno how the roast pork tasted, but it looked good. I'd get that next time just to try...5 years from now or whatever.
At night we went for dinner at a Japanese restaurant featuring cuisine from the island of Hokkaido, the northern big island of Japan. We had bacon-wrapped tomatoes (a nice but greasy appetizer that you could probably make at home), a nice grilled steak, grilled mackerel (I fuzzed the picture, unfortunately), and two types of tofu: a cold soft tofu (very smooth and tasty) and a tofu steak with cheese and meat sauce, almost like tofu lasagna - nice too, and maybe something to try at home.
We also tried the Hokkaido version of crab congee:
This crab was easier to get at than the crab at the place in Macau, because the shell was thin. But I didn't dig the meat that much as it was somewhat mushy. Also, the congee is, as you can see, a different style with more discernable grains of rice in a broth. It was a bit too salty for my tastes.
We got this sausage because Karen thought it looked ... interesting. It was almost like a European sausage, topped of with a grainy mustard!
We also had a roll of sushi, which was pretty normal. What was cool, though, was the wasabi:
Check out the granularity - this is REAL wasabi grated from an actual horseradish root! A lot stronger and more aromatic than the paste we get in Canada.
Day 15 - our last day in HK. We had a breakfast of oranges and mangosteen. The latter is a fruit that we can't usually get good examples of in Canada. It's a fragrant fruit which is supposed to be eaten after you eat durian, because durian is "hot" (yeet hei) and mangosteen is "cold" (leung) and they balance each other out.
For lunch, we went back to Pacific Place mall, before heading to the airport, to get some Triple O's and this roast beef and brie sandwich:
Not half bad - could have used some more meat though. I like the beef+brie concept.
So that's it, all the food I ate in Hong Kong.
I had a combo of BBQ duck and a soya-sauce chicken. The duck was very good, nice flavour and crispy skin. The chicken was kind of normal, which is alright with me since I like soya-sauce chicken. I liked the huge ball of ginger-green onion (geung chung) that went with the chicken.
Karen had a 3-meat special with BBQ pork (yummm...), roasted chicken (not much different than the soya-sauce chicken, maybe a bit sweeter on the outside), and red sausage (which wasn't too great - tasted artificial and weird), along with half a salted duck egg. Just a warning: when one encounters half a salted duck egg on a plate, one should not assume, as Karen did, that the egg has been shelled. Unless, of course, a mouthful of shell is your idea of a good time.
Our friend and host had a BBQ pork and roast pork combo. Dunno how the roast pork tasted, but it looked good. I'd get that next time just to try...5 years from now or whatever.
At night we went for dinner at a Japanese restaurant featuring cuisine from the island of Hokkaido, the northern big island of Japan. We had bacon-wrapped tomatoes (a nice but greasy appetizer that you could probably make at home), a nice grilled steak, grilled mackerel (I fuzzed the picture, unfortunately), and two types of tofu: a cold soft tofu (very smooth and tasty) and a tofu steak with cheese and meat sauce, almost like tofu lasagna - nice too, and maybe something to try at home.
We also tried the Hokkaido version of crab congee:
This crab was easier to get at than the crab at the place in Macau, because the shell was thin. But I didn't dig the meat that much as it was somewhat mushy. Also, the congee is, as you can see, a different style with more discernable grains of rice in a broth. It was a bit too salty for my tastes.We got this sausage because Karen thought it looked ... interesting. It was almost like a European sausage, topped of with a grainy mustard!
We also had a roll of sushi, which was pretty normal. What was cool, though, was the wasabi:
Check out the granularity - this is REAL wasabi grated from an actual horseradish root! A lot stronger and more aromatic than the paste we get in Canada.Day 15 - our last day in HK. We had a breakfast of oranges and mangosteen. The latter is a fruit that we can't usually get good examples of in Canada. It's a fragrant fruit which is supposed to be eaten after you eat durian, because durian is "hot" (yeet hei) and mangosteen is "cold" (leung) and they balance each other out.
For lunch, we went back to Pacific Place mall, before heading to the airport, to get some Triple O's and this roast beef and brie sandwich:
Not half bad - could have used some more meat though. I like the beef+brie concept.So that's it, all the food I ate in Hong Kong.
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