Sichuan Beauty

My dream is to have my room or my own restaurant one day filled with pictures of my favorite foods. I want to drool everyday when I look around the walls. Yes, I'm crazy. But can you blame me? Sichuan food in Hong Kong! I'm smiling and drooling just looking at these photos. 

 This is my new favorite dish. It's a hot and sour potato noodles dish. 

 Eggplant! How pretty. I love eggplant. If there's eggplant at a restaurant, I will order it no matter what. 

 Look at this gorgeous close up. Food should look good and taste delicious as well. 

 Suanli bai rou. The pork is sliced into thin, thin slices. It's hard to master this, but it doesn't take much to master how to eat it. Whooo... spicy! My mouth was on fire! 

Unfortunately, I forgot the name of this resturautn. We just call it the place since my family knows where this is at. It's on Yiu Wah Street. If you need help finding it just message me!

Fortunately this Sichuan food isn't your typical spicy food. It's mala, which means it's a numbing spice. It was still spicy though! Whew! 

Happy Eatings!
PS, I've gotten messages from you guys that wanted suggestions of where to eat. I'll get back to you guys asap. Also, if you live or plan on visiting Los Angeles, also check out my other food blog based on the San Gabriel Valley at 626foodettes.com

A Meal that is Painful to Eat

Sichuan food aka 四川菜 or Szechwan as they spell it in L.A., is always fun to eat once in a while. Mainly because it lights your mouth on fiyahhhhhhh! It's actually a different type of spicy. Sichuan food has a "tingly, numbing" 麻 spicy taste in the mouth. There's also a lot of garlic,chili, ginger, and pickling of other spicy herbs involved. Enter Yu Sichuan, a place I've blogged about before. This time though, we got some new dishes. 

 Thinly sliced pork covered in chili. I'm pretty good at eating spicy but I had to try my best to wipe off the chili but even then it was still spicy. 

 Here was our  vegetarian sampler, with wood ear (a fungus), braised eggplant, and cucumber. Yum! But damn, spicy!!

 Our spicy bean sprouts! Koreans would love this! 

 Spicy cold chicken. My mouth was on fire!

 Here was our order of mild dan dan noodles. Of course even mild at this place was the equivalent of burning your insides. 

 Here was the only non spicy thing they had. Salt & peppered pork intestine soup with noodles. This was yummy. Too bad after awhile everything started to taste spicy. I ended up dunking everything else in this soup trying to wash off the chili. It didn't help much though. 

 My sister & I both ordered 2 drinks each and that still wasn't enough. 

Look at all that chili & oil floating on the surface. This place does not mess around!

Our meal was quite delicious though despite the fact our mouths were on fire. My sister had tears in her eyes & couldn't feel her tongue the rest of the night!


If you are brave enough, go check it out!
Happy Burning & Happy Eatings! 

Hong Kong For A Few Days

I'm only in Hong Kong for a few days unlike my usual month to 2 month long stays. This means that I'll have to consolidate my favorite HK eatings all into a span of a few days.


Stop 1: Tai Hing

Cha Siu (BBQ pork) Lai Fen at Tai Hing. Go for their afternoon tea to get discounts! Best homey food ever! I got some hot coke with lemon as my drink. Good for the throat!


Next Stop:
Sichuan food is super spicy and uses loads of peppers and garlic. The type of spicy it gives you is supposed to be a numbing spicy, not your typical plain so spicy it burns your tongue. You can find this restaurant at Yiu Wah Street #4 in Causeway Bay. 

Here is our order of Sichuan Vegetarian plate with marinated cucumbers and eggplant. 

This is a Sichuan speciality. Chilled Slice Pork Belly With Cucumber and Garlic Sauce. 

Spicy Miso what? The Japanese can't beat this with their ramen. This is Sichuan Dandan Noodles with Spicy sauce and Minced Pork! 

This place was delicious, except their spicy taste was not the traditional Sichuan numbing spicy. Traditional Sichuan food numbs your tongue with just the right amount of spice. This place just lit my tongue on fire! It was still good though! 

This was labeled as Sichuan 4 flavored Chocolate parfait on the menu. If you look closely there's 2 pokey sticks on top. Weird... Definitely not traditional like they claim to be! The parfait just tasted like ice cream. 

Next: Tang Bai Fu in Causeway Bay

This is watermelon with basil seeds. 

Look at that shaved ice! I take it back- that's not ice, it's like shaved snow flaking goodness! This is the best shaved ice ever! I love Black Sesame flavored desserts. They only serve black sesame flavor on Mondays so I had to get it. It was so good, I got 2 just for myself. I usually get the chocolate flavor with marshmallows, strawberries, with condensed milk, etc. I need to try their green tea flavor though! This "ice" takes like ice cream. Seriously.... I need to find out where they bought their ice machine. I want!

Next: Mak's Noodles in Causeway Bay

Here's an order of the best wontons in HK. This is a half dumpling and half wonton order. 

Here's my order of wonton noodles. Their servings are really little so I always have to order a lot. 

Pork Kidney. Sounds gross but it's delicious. 

Dessert:

Heaven! I love chocolate so of course I'd love some fresh waffles with nutella poured all over from City Super in Times Square. 

I'm racing the clock to eat as much as I can before I leave for  Beijing! 

Happy Eatings!