Chinese food in Hong Kong

Nom, nom, nom! The food just never ends! I'm back in the US of A already and I still haven't finished posting my Hong Kong food pictures.

 Egg whites, crab, and egg yolk make for deliciousness all around! Don't worry when you mix it all in, it cooks the yolk. 

 Dan dan noodles are my comfort food! Well, they're a good alternative to standing in an 1 hr 30 min line for Japanese ramen.

 shaorou! Goes great with vinegar! 

 shanjeanbao! 

 dumplings 

grapefruit dessert

Enjoy the food porn?

Summary of Beijing

Being in Beijing by myself for a little over 2 months was definitely a new experience for me. It made me have to use mandarin 24/7 and cut down on my Chinglish. I thought Beijing would be a lot different from the last time I visited 4 years ago since the Olympics happened, but nothing really changed. *ahem* Take that however you want to. I may make fun of Beijing at lot, but honestly right now I'd rather be back in Beijing than getting my butt kicked in Graduate School.

Here's some nice video from my trip:

If you recall my earlier post on The Great Wall here, you can remember how coming down the Great  Wall was a matter of life and death. The video above is me choosing to possibly die by sliding off the tracks instead of dropping to my death from a cable car! They called it Toboggan. 

Here's a guy on the street drawing my Chinese name in calligraphy. It's like the kind you get at all touristy places where each letter looks like an animal only more awesome!

Most food outings  that stood out the most included:
Miao Food From Guizhou
Southwestern Minority Food
Mongolian Food

Happy Eatings! Goodbye Beijing! See you soon?
By the way if you were wondering what my first meal back in the U.S. was.....



It was In & Out! Double Double, Animal Style with a Chocolate Milkshake. How American of me!

Cheese & Meat? Oh My! Korean Food in Beijing!

I was really surprised by how many Koreans there were in Beijing. Apparently Koreans are the highest minority in Beijing, which I thought was really interesting. There are a lot of areas where the streets are filled with loads of Korean restaurants and markets. Awesome. More Koreans in China equals more awesome Korean food. Most of the time when we think of Korean food, we think of Korean BBQ. I was really getting tired of eating Chinese food everyday so when some friends suggested getting Korean food, I was extremely happy. I was in fact expecting Korean BBQ, but I was introduced to something much better and weirder! 

We we given a menu where we got to choose what additional items we wanted to add to the big stone grill. We decided to add these thick white ravioli-like Korean noodles that I love. The dish already included a different type of noodles, meat, veggies, and other things inside. It was also huge!!! We had 3 people and the chef was making our 2 person order. They also brought out the japchae (Korean side dishes), which made me feel close to home even though I was half way across the world. 

The blob of food came out and then they sprinkled  cheese on top. Weird right? If you would have told me I'd be eating Korean food with cheese atop I would have been really grossed out. BUT- I guess this shows you really can't judge something until they try it because this was D-E-L-I-C-I-O-U-S!!!  You couldn't eat it alone since it was too spicy so we also got some steamed rice. Between the cheesy goodness, rice, and side dishes we got so full we wanted to roll out the door. 

Yum, yum, yum! Let's all go and put cheese on everything!!! 

Happy Eatings!

Southwestern Minority Food!!! 西南民族菜

I'm home back in the U.S. of the A!! Super excited! This is the first post I'm actually able to post myself since I'm finally away from the Great Firewall of China and had to have my sister do all my posting. I can finally comment back now! Very exciting!  My 2nd to last meal in Beijing was Southwestern Minority food. I love minorities & I love food. It was the perfect combo. Very, very good! Plus, I've never had 西南民族菜 (Southwestern Minority Food) so it was a great send off meal.

Spicy cold noodles. The best I've ever had!

 Look at all that bone marrow. That meat was amazing. It fell off the bone. The best part of of it was the seasoning. Just that was enough to eat with rice!!!

 This was pork meat with special southwestern chinese seasoning!!!

The most amazing fried fish balls ever! The sauce made it ever better!

This was a plant of some sort. I forgot what it was exactly but it was super good too!

Southwestern Minority food was really good. Only problem was that their seasoning was so good you had to eat it with bowls and bowls of rice!!! It was spicy too!

Happy Eatings!!