The parents brought us to this popular claypot restaurant that they ate at during their last visit to Hong Kong. We ordered fish ball soup and three claypot rice: chicken and mushroom, pork mince and salted fish and a sparerib claypot. All the claypots came with gai lan and there were plenty of lovely crunchy bits at the bottom. The sauce was given in a separate bowl so we added it to our own bowls after taking from the main dish. It seemed like the claypots and a...

Taipei is about 2 hours from Fukuoka and we were provided with lunch. There was a choice of beef (A2 said it tasted like meat pie filling) and floured fish pieces with Sichuan sauce. They also gave a few pieces of fruit, tiramisu and a bread roll. My lunch was lemon pepper salmon with potatoes and green beans. For once my lunch looked better than everyone else’s. Even my bread roll was nicer. It was another 90 minutes or so between Taipei and Hong Kong. The airline gave us...

After our claypot dinner we walked through the flea market and tasted a mango and cream crepe from this rather popular stall. The next day I was passing through the same street and decided to try a meat mince/preserved vegetable bun, which they’re famous for (13HKD) and a red bean “teeth” pastry (6HKD). [gallery columns="2" link="none" type="rectangular" ids="1772,1774,1776,1778,1780,1782,1783,1785,1786"]...

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