Goodbye HK!

Hello Hungry Eaters! So I know I've been a tad behind on the remainder of my Hong Kong posts but it's time to move on! I'm so excited to post my favorite foods in LA so I'll just post a few more pictures of Hong Kong and then link the rest of my HK food pictures. You can find them here!

King's Palace in Causeway Bay is apparently known for their Cha Chiu, aka BBQ Pork. It's supposed to be exactly like a TV series from TVB. I had never watched that series so I didn't understand the appeal. 

Steamed Pomelo skin! Very interesting and different! 

Steamed Asian Pear!

Coconut Dessert

This is Guilinggao aka turtle jelly. It's one of my mom's faves. Personally it's an no go for me.

Happy Eatings! Next post we return to the US of the A!

Last Hong Kong Post

Goodbye Hong Kong. Since I've been back in LA for about 2 weeks now I decided that's its about time to put an end to my HK food journey until next time... which no worries will be in December. Place #1 is Lee Bistro in Times Square. We had the typical Cantonese dimsum. 

 Radish cake. 

 Spicy wontons. 

 Pear juice

 Bamboo shoots and some other veggie

veggie dumplings!

Place #2 was in TST, but unfortunately I don't remember the place name. It was Western food though and it was super cute!

Happy Eatings! Bye bye Hong Kong. Next posts will all be from the U S of the A!

I'm a Dimsum Snob

Sure, I like the typical har gow (shrimp dumpling) and siu ma (pork dumpling) but seriously? When you're actually Cantonese, the typical dishes just don't cut it anymore. So yeah you pay more for a nice view, but you get some pretty good food that isn't at the typical dimsum places where you gotta outrun the other table for the food. Don't get me wrong those are fun times as well but sometimes you just want some relaxing dimsum.

 veggie and pork dumpling. 

 A pork potpie type of thing. 

 shanjianbao. I guess it would be translated to panfried dumplings?

 It's for your hands. Don't drink it fools. 

 sticky rice with red bean. 

 salt & peppered sardines.

 goose drumstick. Too big to eat so we sent it back to get it cut.

 xo changfen. Yummy flour pasta like thing I guess is the best way to describe it to non-Chinese. 

 Yay finally edible. 

 Quails. My sister's fav. I personally think they are more time than they are worth. 

 the sauce for the quail.

 This is the point where my aunt reached over and asked if I've ever had quail head. Uh no? Chinese people have this whole thing from Mencius where if you eat a certain body part of an animal your body part will benefit from that. I.e. eat quail brain, you get smarter, etc. So I thought hmm.. sure let's do it anyways. 

 Why, hello little brain. How are you? Is this where I'm supposed to bite?

 I guess I should eat around the neck too. I mean if I were being eaten, I would appreciate if the eater ate all of me and not just an arm or a leg right?

 "pao fan" not exactly the same as congee or okay. It's a bit thicker. 

 xo spicy sauce. 

Baked mini pineapple bread stuffed with bbq pork. They make it good here. 

 See the inside?

 BBQ pork

 pork

Welcome to what was my first meal of four that day.

Happy Eatings!

This was Dynasty at 22 Salisbury Road, Hong Kong.

 

Molecular Food at Bo Innovation

Molecular Xiao Long Bao. That's what my sister told me about before we stepped into Bo Innovation. She says they use some sort of chemical blah blah... and it has a michellin star. As long as it's supposed to be good I'm fine with wherever we go. I was greeted with this crazy man's mosaic of himself. I mean who the hell does that? I loved it. It's totally something I would do! Hmmm... then I thought to myself, why does he look so familiar? A chinese version of the amazing Japanese comedian Hard Gay.  And then I remembered seeing the guy on Anthony Bourdain's show. 

Picture of the kitchen & the crazy "Demon Chef" as he calls himself. 

Even the place settings were nice & fancy. I remember this place being very expensive on the show so I never thought I'd be able to eat here without crying, but apparently they have set lunches that are pretty affordable. The service was too attentive though. They gave all the women purse hangers blinged out with rhinestones to hang your purses. I would have preferred that they subtracted that cost from my bill and I hold onto my own purse. 

Menu 

Black truffle changfen was amazing!!!! SO freaking good! I wish the whole plate was filled with these!

Here's the famous molecular xiao long bao we were waiting for. It's a ball of flavor explosion in your mouth. It looks nothing like a xiao long bao, but when you put it in your mouth, the flavor of it just explodes and you think you're eating a real bao. There's even ginger infused in it. See the red string?

 Spring roll filled with chicken, bamboo shoots, and pesto. It was good but I like my Vietnamese egg rolls more. Still was very delicious on an empty stomach though!

Here was our ha gow aka shrimp dumpling with black truffle. 

cod ball with morel  & extra virgin olive oil 

Salt & Peppered cuttlefish ball with lime sauce. 

Here was my momma's slow-cooked suckling pig, with Chinese vinegar and egg.

Here was my awesome "langoustine with preserved duck egg, English mustard, and cauliflower risotto." Can you say Yum? 

Here was my sister's "French quail 'beggar style' with Chinese lentil and wolfberry chutney."  

Here was their westernized version of yang chow fried rice. It was a nice change to the typical chinese fried rice besides I was still hungry. Going to fancy places always means they give you itty bitty things of food. I have a stomach of an animal so I need to be fed. 

I was so pleased with my meal since everything was so tasty I just couldn't wait for dessert. Too bad the demon finally showed up because this dessert sucked majorly. This was a strawberry bread cake that needed to go back to hell. Awful. I left mine in tact with just one bite out of it. That says a lot considering I live for desserts. Fail! 

Is molecular gastronomy your cup of tea?

Happy Eatings!