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...

Being our last lunch meal in Japan, I wanted something that I could only get here i.e. a good bowl of Japanese noodles. There was only one noodle store here. A2 got udon with an egg and some mince (it tasted a bit like bolognaise to me, but mum liked this better than the one I ordered). Mine was a black pork udon; both were ¥740. For some reason there were flat bits in the udon, like it got squashed. Mum thought the noodles were nice, but they...

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