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Thu Jun 6 03:49:39 2002 (rr) Book: Rough Guide Hong Kong Location: Hong Tomorrow we hop over to Taiwan on Japan Asia Airways, which is what Japan Airways calls itself when they fly to Taiwan to appease China. RIght now we are having some coffee before heading over to Lamma Island for a hike. Yesterday we finally got around to having a dim sum lunch. We ate at Maxim's Chinese Restaurant in Causeway Bay. The dining room was packed full of people sitting around large round tables. We were seated smack dab in the middle of it all, and soon were flagging down trolley-pushers and peeking inside various baskets and pots of food. Some highlights were the barbecued pork buns, the steamed dumplings which were just fantastic (shrimp and pork, in a salty broth), blanched greens, and the mango pudding. Its a very interactive type of eating experience. Before lunch, we rode around on the double-decker trams which are a cheaper, slower, and more visual way of travelling compared with the MTR (subway). We rattled down the city and back, noting various shop signs like Supreme Cookie. We also ate Cantonese for dinner, at a restaurant in Pacific Place mall called Zen. Most restaurants are in malls. The highlight there was a seafood dish that consisted of chopped-up seafood and pine-nuts all seasoned nicely (with what I don't know) and looking very salad like. You place a few spoonfuls of the mixture into a lettuce cup and dip it in a barbecue-like sauce. Yum. Speaking of good meals, we had our best Mexican on the trip the other day, at a restaurant called Caramba. Its in the mid-levels. The mid-levels are a section of the city reached via a series of escalators. The escalators go for almost a kilometer up the hill. A few days ago we went up to Victoria Peak and walked down into the city. There were some great views of the water and green mountains as well as of the city and the boats in the harbour. |
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