Dim sum.
Seriously. People are eating at all hours of the day/night here. The above image is from dim sum yesterday. We met up with my mom's brother who lives in Kowloon and my aunt Dennies from San Francisco (she is here on business). This was around 2pm in a giant restaurant in Kowloon. The entire place was packed when we got there at 1.30pm. We stayed til around 3pm and there was a never ending revolution of people coming in and out. Don't anyone have to work in Hong Kong? The joke about Hong Kong is that there is nothing to do but eat and go shopping. Which is so true. There are so many malls in Hong Kong it's not even funny.
I don't know how people can eat congee and noodles for breakfast. I mean, I do. I use to be able to when I was younger. I wouldn't eat American breakfast. Then I went to college and started eating more American breakfast (like I had a choice in Alfred, NY!). Now I can't eat Chinese breakfast anymore.
Typical Hong Kong breakfast- congee and a side of (I don't know what it's called in English).
The breakfast in all the hotels we stayed at in China had food similar to this, but also- fried rice, choy, noodles, etc. HOW IS THIS BREAKFAST? It's too heavy.
Rice noodles with beef and fried fish skin.
We can't get fried fish skin in the states (the plate on the right). I don't think the type of fish they use can be found in the states. It's really good. This is the brunch I had the morning after the day we arrived in Hong Kong.
Macaroni in soup is also a popular breakfast item in HK.
A breakfast combo at a place we just ate at. Main, side, coffee or tea. There were 5 different combos with similar things. I got a....Chinese style steak sandwich. Honestly, I don't know how people aren't fat here eating all this food. It's a lot of food too. I haven't seen any fat people in Hong Kong. Everyone is pretty normal, or skinny.
These types of places are "extremely" cheap too. The above combo costs $22 HKD which comes out to around $3 USD. My steak sandwich/coffee combo was $20 HKD.
Man, people live relaxed lives here.
9 comments:
Oh wow, these photographs make me miss chinese food, I spent the summer in China and love it a lot!
Sorry for so many comments, but is the name of your blog from an Arcade fire song? I love that band!
What are the fried fish skins like? My first thought is "pork rinds", but then I think "that can't possibly be right".
aaaww, I'm hungry now :( I hate all people who eat all the time and are still skinny! ;D no, I'm just kidding, but I'm really jealous... :D
xoxo, And :* ;)
that looks fascinating actually and some of it looks so delicious!
I've tried chinese food and you are 100% right. I don't understand how is it possible for these people not to get fat more and more after eating this kind of breakfasts or something else. Maybe it's because they are excersising all the time hihih? ;)
xx
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Looks tasty :)
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