Ohisashiburi~ I just came back from a holiday in Taipei and Hong Kong! Was expecting Taipei to be hot and Hong Kong a little cooler from the weather forecast
before I went but it was the opposite. Taipei was pretty chilly and Hong Kong was effing hot...wtf. Did lots of shopping in Taipei but not much in Hong Kong
because firstly I dont really like the stuff in Hong Kong, secondly, the salespeople were either rude or didnt bother to talk to me and thirdly, stuff in
Hong Kong was so fucking expensive...as compared to Taipei that is. I bought a few tops in Taipei for like 100yuan, which is like 5 freaking Singapore
dollars!!! Whee~ So anyway, I havent resized most of my photos(and my photos from Japan too! Ah!) so I'll just do a what-I-ate-in-Taipei-and-Hong-Kong food
post for now. Enjoy~ Didnt eat that much though :D
First up, the food I ate on the planes. Went for a short trip of 5 days and in these 5 days, I had 4 plane rides. Singapore to Hong Kong, Hong Kong to Taiwan, Taiwan to Hong Kong and lastly Hong Kong to Singapore. This increases my planes count for this year to 5. =D
(TL) Sausage, omelette and hashbrown. Not that delicious but passable.
(TR) Fish covered in a mild spicy sauce which was freaking good. I practically gobbled down the fish when it was served to me and I wasnt even that hungry. =D
(BL) Some chicken fried noodles. Presentation-wise...FAIL. Taste-wise...So-so.
(BR) Fish and potatoes. I must say that the fish that Cathay Pacific uses is damn palatable.
(TL) Oyster Mee Sua. Didnt really like it but it was pretty cheap. Around 1 Singapore dollar.
(TR) Curry chicken balls from this stall called Ding Gua Gua that my sister recommended. I liked that the balls werent too oily but I couldnt taste any curry at all. Haha.
(BL) Xue Hua Bing...which is basically shaved ice. Topped it with green tea and red beans for one and mango for the other. I think that they sell this in Lot 1 too but not that many flavours there. The portion was quite huge and I think that it's perfectly okay for 3 people to share 1 actually.
(BR) Steamed buns with dim sum underneath and nobody else noticed the dim sum because no one bothered to lift the steamer up.
(TL) Pumpkin and vegetables that I didnt eat because it was too much for breakfast.
(TR) Scrambled eggs, sausages and ham.
(BL) Fish and some chicken-thingy.
(BR) Salted eggs! Havent eaten them in ages and I really love eating them with porridge~
(TL) Fruits and bread that I didnt touch because I was too full from eating the salted eggs with porridge :P.
(TR) Duck with glass noodles. The lady who sold this FRIED the glass noodles before adding soup so the soup was freaking oily...and kinda disgusting. While she was frying the noodles, oil spurted out and hit us. Fucking hot and painful but she didnt even apologise but just said "Oh, splashed onto you huh?"...WTF?!
(BL) Orh Jian. This orh jian beats all orh jian that I've eaten before because there were sooo many oysters in it. Best thing? The oysters were fresh and juicy. :D
(BR) Prawns and ham fried rice. Not too oily and delicious.
(TL) Fishball or meatball soup. Bit hard for fishballs but yet too soft to be meatballs. Probably a mixture? Not sure but anyway, the soup was a wee bit oily for my liking.
(TR) Da Chang Bao Xiao Chang...which is basically sausage wrapped in glutinous rice which was shaped like a sausage..wtf.
(BL) Peanut butter ice-cream from Cold Stone. Didnt get to eat Cold Stone in Japan because of the long queues everytime I went there but for the outlet I went in Taiwan, I only had to queue like for 5 minutes. :D I have no idea why the queues in Japan are so long...it's seriously just ice-cream for goodness sake.
(BR) Croissant with slices of beef from Starbucks.
(TL) Prawns and scallops fried in XO sauce with broccoli.
(TR) Some vegetables that we ordered because we didnt know that the prawn dish came with vegetables too. The stupid waitress didnt even bother telling us and even recommended that we order broccoli...wtf.
(BL) Bread with duck and foie gras. Damn.fucking.good.
(BR) Hashima/Xue Ge/Snow Jelly, whatever you want to call it.
(TL) Tangyuan.
(TR) Mango dessert from Xu Liu Shan. Wasnt too sweet and in fact, it was a little sour. Pretty good because it was so mango-ey~
(BL) Bird's nest that we were supposed to add into the Hashima but we didnt know that it was supposed to be eaten that way so we ended up adding it to the mango dessert instead. :P
(BR) Vegetable porridge.
(TL) Carrot cake. When I cut them up, they fell apart in strips and I found that interesting because the ones in Singapore just fall into lumps when you cut them apart. Okay, lousy description, I know.
(TR) Char Siew Cheong Fun.
(BL) Char Siew Bao.
(BR) Jiu Cai Jiao with nuts added into it. There was supposed to be Har Kow as well but I mistook this picture for Har Kow while resizing the photos so yar, didnt add the Har Kow picture here. wtf.
(TL) Siew Mai.
(TR) Some yam ball.
(BL) Roasted goose. Tasted like duck to me. I seriously cannot be a food connoisseur.
(BR) Prawns that were fucking small.
(TL) Broccoli fried with squid. Loved the squid but my breath smelt damn fishy after eating it.
(TR) Breakfast at a Char Can Teng. On the left was macaroni topped with sliced ham and abalone. My mum thought that the abalone strips were chicken -___ -...Now I know why I am so bad at food tasting. On the right was bread with lots of butter and fried eggs.
(BL) Macdonald's~!! Choice of burger was this Mala Chicken which was supposed to be spicy but I didnt find it spicy at all....Okay, I did actually but that was when I was about to finish it before I realised that it was kinda spicy. Hehe.
So yup, this ends my Taipei and Hong Kong food post. Will try to blog about my trip and Japan when I have the time. Cheers~
First up, the food I ate on the planes. Went for a short trip of 5 days and in these 5 days, I had 4 plane rides. Singapore to Hong Kong, Hong Kong to Taiwan, Taiwan to Hong Kong and lastly Hong Kong to Singapore. This increases my planes count for this year to 5. =D
(TL) Sausage, omelette and hashbrown. Not that delicious but passable.
(TR) Fish covered in a mild spicy sauce which was freaking good. I practically gobbled down the fish when it was served to me and I wasnt even that hungry. =D
(BL) Some chicken fried noodles. Presentation-wise...FAIL. Taste-wise...So-so.
(BR) Fish and potatoes. I must say that the fish that Cathay Pacific uses is damn palatable.
(TL) Oyster Mee Sua. Didnt really like it but it was pretty cheap. Around 1 Singapore dollar.
(TR) Curry chicken balls from this stall called Ding Gua Gua that my sister recommended. I liked that the balls werent too oily but I couldnt taste any curry at all. Haha.
(BL) Xue Hua Bing...which is basically shaved ice. Topped it with green tea and red beans for one and mango for the other. I think that they sell this in Lot 1 too but not that many flavours there. The portion was quite huge and I think that it's perfectly okay for 3 people to share 1 actually.
(BR) Steamed buns with dim sum underneath and nobody else noticed the dim sum because no one bothered to lift the steamer up.
(TL) Pumpkin and vegetables that I didnt eat because it was too much for breakfast.
(TR) Scrambled eggs, sausages and ham.
(BL) Fish and some chicken-thingy.
(BR) Salted eggs! Havent eaten them in ages and I really love eating them with porridge~
(TL) Fruits and bread that I didnt touch because I was too full from eating the salted eggs with porridge :P.
(TR) Duck with glass noodles. The lady who sold this FRIED the glass noodles before adding soup so the soup was freaking oily...and kinda disgusting. While she was frying the noodles, oil spurted out and hit us. Fucking hot and painful but she didnt even apologise but just said "Oh, splashed onto you huh?"...WTF?!
(BL) Orh Jian. This orh jian beats all orh jian that I've eaten before because there were sooo many oysters in it. Best thing? The oysters were fresh and juicy. :D
(BR) Prawns and ham fried rice. Not too oily and delicious.
(TL) Fishball or meatball soup. Bit hard for fishballs but yet too soft to be meatballs. Probably a mixture? Not sure but anyway, the soup was a wee bit oily for my liking.
(TR) Da Chang Bao Xiao Chang...which is basically sausage wrapped in glutinous rice which was shaped like a sausage..wtf.
(BL) Peanut butter ice-cream from Cold Stone. Didnt get to eat Cold Stone in Japan because of the long queues everytime I went there but for the outlet I went in Taiwan, I only had to queue like for 5 minutes. :D I have no idea why the queues in Japan are so long...it's seriously just ice-cream for goodness sake.
(BR) Croissant with slices of beef from Starbucks.
(TL) Prawns and scallops fried in XO sauce with broccoli.
(TR) Some vegetables that we ordered because we didnt know that the prawn dish came with vegetables too. The stupid waitress didnt even bother telling us and even recommended that we order broccoli...wtf.
(BL) Bread with duck and foie gras. Damn.fucking.good.
(BR) Hashima/Xue Ge/Snow Jelly, whatever you want to call it.
(TL) Tangyuan.
(TR) Mango dessert from Xu Liu Shan. Wasnt too sweet and in fact, it was a little sour. Pretty good because it was so mango-ey~
(BL) Bird's nest that we were supposed to add into the Hashima but we didnt know that it was supposed to be eaten that way so we ended up adding it to the mango dessert instead. :P
(BR) Vegetable porridge.
(TL) Carrot cake. When I cut them up, they fell apart in strips and I found that interesting because the ones in Singapore just fall into lumps when you cut them apart. Okay, lousy description, I know.
(TR) Char Siew Cheong Fun.
(BL) Char Siew Bao.
(BR) Jiu Cai Jiao with nuts added into it. There was supposed to be Har Kow as well but I mistook this picture for Har Kow while resizing the photos so yar, didnt add the Har Kow picture here. wtf.
(TL) Siew Mai.
(TR) Some yam ball.
(BL) Roasted goose. Tasted like duck to me. I seriously cannot be a food connoisseur.
(BR) Prawns that were fucking small.
(TL) Broccoli fried with squid. Loved the squid but my breath smelt damn fishy after eating it.
(TR) Breakfast at a Char Can Teng. On the left was macaroni topped with sliced ham and abalone. My mum thought that the abalone strips were chicken -___ -...Now I know why I am so bad at food tasting. On the right was bread with lots of butter and fried eggs.
(BL) Macdonald's~!! Choice of burger was this Mala Chicken which was supposed to be spicy but I didnt find it spicy at all....Okay, I did actually but that was when I was about to finish it before I realised that it was kinda spicy. Hehe.
So yup, this ends my Taipei and Hong Kong food post. Will try to blog about my trip and Japan when I have the time. Cheers~
