28 Jan

In the Sogo department store A2 and I bought a croquante bun and some charcoal powder bread from a bakery called Das Gute, part of A1 Bakery. The charcoal bread had almond and charcoal powder and also a few pieces walnuts added. The croquante was crunchy on the outside, was a little sweet, similar to a butterfly biscuit, and was filled with walnuts. It was addictive. Instead of saving it for breakfast A2 and I ended up eating all of it by the end of the night. [gallery link="none" columns="2" type="rectangular"...

23:44 / Bread / Das Gute / Food / Hong Kong / Restaurants / Travel
28 Jan

The Peninsula runs a well-known High Tea every afternoon. We ordered high tea for three and shared. High tea for two people is slightly cheaper than it is for one, but there’s the same proportion of food. The food arrived in a three-tiered platter. The top had a mango/passionfruit/coconut mousse, a cupcake with a cherry, a chocolate tart and a slice of pandan fruit cake. The second tier had cucumber sandwiches, salmon sandwiches, quiche, some sort of pastry and a ham and cheese roll. The bottom tier held...

23:37 / Food / High Tea / Hong Kong / Restaurants / The Peninsula / Travel
27 Jan

We had a few minutes to buy some bread for breakfast before the group tour began. We popped into Maxim's: one of the bakeries just outside University station. A2 got chicken and pumpkin and I got mushroom and chicken. My bun had a very strong taste of garlic; luckily there was more bread than filling. [gallery link="none" columns="2" type="rectangular" ids="1586,1589,1588,1590"]...

23:52 / Bread / Food / Hong Kong / Maxim's / Restaurants / Travel
27 Jan

All the restaurants on level 7 had long queues. We took a ticket for Imasuke and waited over an hour, during which we decided what we were going to order. The food arrived quite quickly so we started eating at around 8:15pm and finished by 9pm, which isn’t terribly late. Mum and dad shared a duck nabeyaki udon (70HKD) and a hotpot with oysters in miso soup (148HKD). The oysters were the biggest oysters I’ve seen so far: slightly smaller than golf balls. A2 and I shared a...

23:33 / Food / Hong Kong / Imasuke / Japanese / Restaurants / Travel
27 Jan

Like the McDonald's we went into at Yau Ma Tei, this one was packed and it was difficult to find a seat. McDonald's in HK seems more like a regular (albeit extremely crowded) Melburnian cafe where people meet up and don't always order much. At the Yau Ma Tei McDonald's it seemed like half of the occupants weren’t buying food at all, just using the tables and/or using the free wi-fi. Mum ordered a medium cappuccino for about 3AUD and two red bean pies. The pies didn’t seem as oily...

23:24 / Dessert/Sweets / Food / Hong Kong / Hot Drinks / McDonald's / Restaurants / Travel
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