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  • Iced tea in Mongkok, Hong Kong

    • 6 Feb 2010
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    Huge queues, pumping tunes, shouting staff: buying tea in Hong Kong is not the genteel experience of old. Bloody tasty though. 

    One of the many things I love about Hong Kong is the huge variety of culinary sensations lining up for your attention.

    Here is crazily good Cantonese cuisine, food from every corner of the mainland, spectacular sushi, delicious dim sum and brilliantly executed Western nosh of all varieties. 

    Plus tasty Taiwanese Ice Teas at 5pm on a Saturday afternoon if that's what you fancy...

    I went for the fruit packed peach, pineapple and passion fruit. Yummy!

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    Bill for one (with a free iced lemon tea): HK$15 ($1.20, AU$2.20, US$1.95)

    Taipei No. 1 Share Tea, +886-989-265-999 www.sharetea.com.tv


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  • Dim sum breakfast in Kowloon, Hong Kong

    • 6 Feb 2010
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  • Dinner at Mui Ke, Hong Kong

    • 5 Feb 2010
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    Former street stall made good, basement canteen Mui Ke was packed this evening with hundreds of diners.

    We had deep-fried cuttlefish, tasty Chinese greens and a couple of beers. Damn good nosh.

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    Bill for two: HK$120 (£10, AU$17.50, US$15)

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  • Lunch in Chungking Mansions, Hong Kong

    • 2 Feb 2010
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    Big bowl of noodles, with beef and Chinese spinach. Tasty nosh to fill a gap

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  • Cocktails at Felix, Kowloon, Hong Kong

    • 1 Feb 2010
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    While the cat's away the mice will play. Well, not exactly, but with Chelle up in China I escaped the confines of my Chungking Mansions cell to check out the Hong Kong Island lightshow (every evening at 8pm) from Felix, the top floor bar of the Peninsula Hotel.

    Quite a view of Hong Kong Island, though I couldn't hear the accompanying music as I was sitting behind sealed windows, partially covered in blinds.

    Felt a bit of a plonker standing alone at the bar ordering a cocktail for one, but soon got chatting to an English expat (a watchmaker) and his visiting lady friend (on sabbatical from her job in the City of London).

    I went for a Lavender cocktail, which looks a little muddled in the photograph above, but which was actually a beautifully balanced mix of Vodka, Chardonnay, Parfait Amour, Elderflower Cordial.

    Bill for one: HK$120 (10, AU$17.50, US$15.50). Knock out views free...

    Salisbury Road, Kowloon, Hong Kong. peninsula.com‎

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  • Lunch at Caprice, Four Seasons, Hong Kong

    • 1 Feb 2010
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    Very few hotels in the world can boast an in house three Michelin star restaurant. Only one, the Four Seasons Hong Kong, can boast two. Today I was royally entertained by the delightful Nicola Chilton, PR Director.

    After Nicola had offered to take me for lunch last week, I'd rather cheekily asked to go to Lung King Heen, the only Chinese nosh shop in the world to boast three Michelin stars. It is booked months in advance, so no can do: Caprice is not a bad Plan B!

    Anyways, after a month of eating spicy curry, it was an absolute pleasure to enjoy impeccably prepared and presented classic French food in this most wonderfully designed of restaurants, with the added bonus of a knock out view over Hong Kong harbour.

    I had a langoustine starter, cod main and souffle desert. My words could never do it justice, so the pictures will have to do the talking.

    Bill for two including champagne and wine: on-the-house (lucky me)

    Four Seasons Hong Kong, 8 Finance Street. Hong Kong (3196 8310) www.fourseasons.com/hongkong


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    "Tell me what you eat, and I'll tell you what you are" - Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

    For the first five months of 2010 we blogged our culinary adventure on the road in Asia and the Americas. We are now settled in Far North Queensland - and still eating!

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