Eating and Drinking, Hong Kong

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Favorite thing: Your sitting in your seat, seatbelt fastened, patting yourself on the back for not spending any extra money on food when a meal will be served in flight, the Captain is announcing the flight will only take 10 hours today due to a fast moving jet stream, your getting excited, and then you notice it, it's rock hard, what do you do? Play with it until it gets soft? NO! Put it under your main course tray before opening your meal, the main course tray is hot enough that after just 2 minutes the frozen rock hard butter tab will be soft enough to spread on the roll that is included with the meal.

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Favorite thing: Being a Virtual Tourist member means, among other things, that i like a little variety in my life which lead to this idea; upon checking in at the Hollywood Hotel I asked if it would be possible to have breakfast at different locations during our stay, to my surprise the answer was Yes, that's no problem.
Our first breakfast was at the Plaza Inn inside Disneyland Park, Next up was the Enchanted Gardens at the Disneyland Hotel, and on the last day of our visit we had breakfast at our hotel.

Favorite thing: Visit the supermarkets in Hong Kong like Park and shop or Wellcome, as they come of their stores have imported food goodies from the UK or US. Plus most of the supermarkets are open until 11pm!

As supermarkets are in competition with each other there are always discounts or special offers every week. The bigger the store the bigger selections they have.

Favorite thing: I was attracted by its name. "Che Zai" means small car in cantonese. Min means noodles.

I have tasted it during my trip into Lantau Island, visit Big Buddha. Though the stalls are right in front of the Big Buddha, they are charging standard prices. A bowl of Che Zai Min costs us HKD 15, a homemade Tau Fu Fa or black sesame costs HKD 8 only. Unlike some tourist spots in Malaysia, a fresh coconut water could cost you RM 10 (normal price is about RM 3.50) !

So, you can take some refreshments here before climbing the staircases to "meet" Big Buddha.

Fondest memory: Che Zai Min = Noodles* + Side Dishes**

*Noodles like Hor-Fun, Mi-Fun etc.

**Side dishes like chicken feet, fish balls, fish cakes, fried eggs, wan-ton, vegetables etc.

Favorite thing: All water direct from government mains in Hong Kong satisfies the United Nations World Health Organisation standards, but it is not advisable to drink water directly from the tap! Bottled water is widely avaiblable in hotels and supermarkets.

Favorite thing: I enjoyed the sights and sounds of all of these streets. There is so much hustle and bustle! Quite often when I was hungry I would find a place that had lots of locals eating. I would figure that would be the best place because of all the people there.

Favorite thing: The real Cantonese food that you cannot find in the West.

Fondest memory: Dining in restaurant is one of the popular things the locals often do. During lunch time on Sundays, all the big restaurants are packed with families!

Fondest memory: I can llok back on this now and smile, but when i was passing through Hong Kong on my way to Pakistan my dear travelling companion (yes, that's YOU Ray) told me that 100% absoluterly the water was fine to drink.

Well, I can tell you I was definitely not a happy roommate the next morning as my stomach was gurgling something shocking and my counternance matched my health. After an "interesting" glass of water that tasted like it had been brought up out of a pond I was suffering something shocking!

I quizzed one of Ray's relatives the next day about the water situation and sure enough (by the look of horror on her face at my tale) the water was DEFINITELY NOT DRINKABLE).

Some will laugh at my foolhardiness at even trying to drink without first checking, and it is one lesson that i have definitely learnt and learnt well!!