Hong Kong: Thanksgiving 2019: Day 6: Friends and food

Hong Kong: Thanksgiving 2019

Fall 2019: Day 6: Friends and food

Wandering Tsim Sha Tsui.

Finding breakfast.

Not the best won ton mein, but considering how touristy TST is, can't complain! $Just a fraction of the menu at Aberdeen Typhoon Shelters Restaurant.$
Just a fraction of the menu at Aberdeen Typhoon Shelters Restaurant.

Protest graffiti on Nathan Road.

Excited to get gifts from Uncle Sam!

Sheng jian bao. Not bad for vegetarian version.

Deep fried mushroom masquerading as sweet and sour pork. if you liked mushrooms it was pretty good.

The spread.

Sam and friends.

The view. Not bad!

Group shot.

Ready for Christmas.

Hong Kong Museum of Art.

More protest graffiti.

Sunset over Victoria Harbour.

Bamboo salad, pickled lotus root, snow peas, tofu.

Wing bean and edamame salad.

Pork and cabbage dumplings. Could have eaten a few orders of these.

Chongqing style fried chicken wings. NOM, but you have to eat them fresh and hot.

Steamed barramundi. Almost like how Mom used to make-- only Mom made a whole sea bass, not just a slice.

Beef. Quite decent but decidedly ordinary.

Stir fried morning glory. Again tasty but forgettable-- might have been more memorable with rice?

Kubota pork char shu. Decent but seriously overrated here, go elsewhere.

Crowd of Geography nerds in the middle, of course. :P

"Breakfast 2.0": Horlicks ice cream, cornflakes, oats, dried longan, cocoa crumbs. Subtle.

Guard's pudding with Kavalan whisky cream. Meh.

Part of the kitchen.

Hong Kong at night.

Beef tenderlion appetizer. Looked ok but not particularly... umm... quality.

Fish (sole) and shrimp. Not pretty but actually tasty enough to be edible.

Because of course ice cream.

Arrival meal. The jook was actually pretty good this time.

Bulkhead seat FTW.

Sunset off the California coast.

Relaxing last day in Hong Kong, started off by wandering Tsim Sha Tsui for the first time the whole trip-- even found a decent cha chaan teng for breakfast. It's still a tourist area so not the best quality, but the fact that it was barely a five minute walk from the hotel didn't hurt. Lunch was coming up soon anyway-- caught Sam's friends Helene and Diva at Kung Tak Lam right in TST.

After a leisurely lunch, Sam's friends all went back to work, while Sam and I headed over to the Hong Kong Museum of Art. It was excellent, with a mix of historic and contemporary art. Made me wonder why I'd never gone before, although I suspect I was suffering from art museum overload on past trips?

Parted ways with Sam before dinner-- he was off to see Ada and Seline again, while I headed up to Ho Lee Fook in Central to meet up with Mia and Frank for dinner. Ho Lee Fook reminded me a little of Chef Roy Choi in Los Angeles-- Asian fusion with bold flavors, and like Chef Roy Choi's ventures (Kogi, Chego, etc.), it's mostly successful. Nothing truly amazing, but most worked, some worked extremely well, and only a few misses.

Was a bit dark and a bit loud to chat too much inside, but was still great to see everyone! It seems like Hong Kong's two newest ex-pats are adjusting to life well as professors at HKU, and Frank in particular is already a pro at getting to the airport from Ho Lee Fook via the mid-level escalators to the HK Airport Express. He has it down to a science-- which probably shouldn't have surprised me given I am talking about a pair of PhD's in Geography!

Thanks to Frank and Mia's advice, made it to HKG, including through security, with 45 minutes (!) to spare. (Sam thought I was nuts!) Then had a pleasantly uneventful return flight back to the USA, complete with some spectacular nighttime views of Hong Kong on takeoff.

Until next time, Hong Kong!