1. The Food
As a result of our stay in China, I now have a love hate relationship with chopsticks. Throughout our time there, we experienced some of the most unique foods I've ever tasted. Also some of the most weird, including: kidney, tendon, tripe, duck liver, jelly fish, soft-shelled turtle, and goat's blood (looks like black tofu). K ventured to try chicken feet and likely several other unique dishes that I avoided at all costs. We did have McDonalds and KFC a few times, mostly because we could point at a picture menu they had available and order from there. We had no way of ordering or even knowing how to read the menu for that matter at other traditional Chinese restaurants.
Every breakfast in Hong Kong we'd go to Cafe de Coral. They had congee, noodles, other random Chinese foods - but also traditional American dishes. We usually had ham and eggs. Some of our other delicious meals included dim sum, dumplings, etc. Definitely things that we could potentially find in the USA, but not to the caliber and taste of that in actual China:
My typical reaction (to soft shelled turtle in this instance):
Check out my amazing chopstick skills. Wow.
2. Sai Kung
Our second day in Hong Kong, we started out the morning with a visit to Wong Tai Sin Temple. Afterwards, we took a bus to a small fishing village called Sai Kung. It was unbelievable. Boats all along a pier selling everything from fish to seaweed to clams to eel. Bing negotiated with a local lady who took us on a boat ride to a nearby island. When we came back, we ate a restaurant that was basically "point and cook." There were 15-20 tanks filled with all kinds of live seafood - lobster, clams, cuddle fish, shrimp, etc. They cooked whatever we selected. It was so fresh and amazingly tasty.
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