First we did a little window shopping and came across a street which was mostly full of stalls with Chinese New Year decorations...
The new year is only days away and appropriately-themed merchandise is everywhere.
After the window shopping, it was time for dinner, and we happened to stumble across one of Hong Kong's most famous restaurants, Yung Kee...
...and you know what that means - food pictures! Muhaha! No escape!
Let's start with a bit of foreshadowing...
The glare is a bit distracting, but you are looking though a window into Yung Kee's roasted meat display. Their roasted goose is among the most famous in the world, and that's mostly what you see here.
I just couldn't wait to get my smackers around some of that roasted goodness! Before we dive in to that, though, let's take a quick look at one of their kitchens (yes, this place is big - spanning at least six floors - and it has multiple kitchens)...
This was the view from our table. Being able to watch all the action was so cool!
Time for the first dish...
Thousand-year-old egg with pickled ginger. The taste was quite good, actually, but I do have a hard time with the texture and appearance (especially the yolk). Yung Kee makes both of these components themselves.
Chicken congee.
Eggplant stir-fried with fresh crab.
Roasted goose! Absolutely outstanding. It is a very common Chinese dish, actually, but Katherine and I both had never tried it. We started at the top!
Katherine agrees.
For dessert, mango pudding (with fresh chunks of mango).
...and black sesame pudding (something Katherine and I had never seen before).
After dinner, we walked around a bit more and noticed this interesting eyewear shop...
So we had to strike a few poses...
(Which, incidentally, seemed to trigger a landslide of other photos from nearby pedestrians.)
On our way home we stopped by the University of Hong Kong to grab Katherine's laptop, so I snapped a quick picture of the building she's in...
...and then returned home to relax. Fui Fui almost got himself in a bit of trouble with a common new year snack we had out, but we caught him in time...
...and then he decided to fall asleep beside me as I was writing this very post...
Quite a nice evening.
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1 comment:
Oh my, I really loved this post...especially since there were pictures of you two!
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