Photoshopped to relieve boredom. Another light lunch at my desk after a lunchtime run.
Wednesday, 26 August 2009
Monday, 24 August 2009
Day 211 - Chicken Hot and Sour Noodle Soup
I'm guessing that this meant "hot" as in spicy and piquant, but it wasn't really that hot at all. Fairly good, but I think I would have preferred my old favourite, the Japanese Curry Rice.
Sunday, 23 August 2009
Day 210 - Chocolate Filled Waffles
These also come in custard and red bean flavoured varieties. Although the chocolate was good, I think that the custard is my favourite.
A Landslide of Cherries
So the highly stylized, shiny, strobist cherries (Day 201) walked away with the contest last week, only 1 person who voted not voting for them! I'm quite pleased with how this photo turned out, and you can head over here to see a large version.
The new poll is up and ready to vote on.
Day 209 - Mixed Nuts
I decided to go for something a little different today. Mixed Nuts and a pint of Stella Artois. Finally a Black and White image breaks into the 365 Days.
Day 208 - Handmade Fish Ball and Wonton Noodle
The wonton were good but the handmade fishballs were fantastic.
Day 206 - Fried Rice Cake with Beans and Mushrooms
and other assorted dishes. Clockwise from top right: Tomato with Egg, Broccoli, Fried Noodle, Fried Fish Skin, White Fried Noodle and Green Curry. Probably the most surprising and delicious dish here is the Crispy Fish Skin. Highly recommended when you can find it!
Wednesday, 19 August 2009
Day 205 - Chicken Pie
Tomato sauce in the background and mountains of broccoli in the foreground, but the detail to note is the pastry chicken baked happily right on top of the pie! Certainly beats a triangle or other abstract identifier.
...and the pie tasted pretty damn good!
Monday, 17 August 2009
Sunday, 16 August 2009
Banana Split comes out on top... even without the Chocolate Sauce!!
Day 195 - Banana Split with Vanilla Ice-cream came out on top last despite the glaring absence of chocolate sauce. Voting is open now for the last week's photos.
~Vote away!
Day 202 - Sugared Doughnuts
It's quite hard to find good doughnuts in Hong Kong but there's a Bakery in Sai Kung that does delicious sugared doughnuts and not a bad meat pie either.
Saturday, 15 August 2009
Day 201 - Cherries
Another strobist set shot here. I love the small textual details on the cherries... or the ones in focus anyway!
Day 200 - Bangers and Mash
Unlike Day 100, I realised that I should do something a little different a couple of days before 200 arrived, instead of wishing that I had, as was the case for Day 100.
Unfortunately, upon arrival at the restaurant I choose for dinner on Thursday night, I noticed that the very dark interior would make for a rather difficult shot. Nevertheless I'm pretty happy with how this came out... Moody.
Despite Hong Kong being a ex-British colony, Fish and Chips are fairly hard to find at all, let alone good Fish and Chips. Since it's an favourite of mine (as evidenced by the number of times I ate it during my most recent trip there), and has been since childhood - we used to have it every Friday night - I've been systematically working my way through the "F&C" establishments in Hong Kong. This meal was another of those trips, unfortunately the photo didn't turn out quite as nice as the one above. I've decided to post it in the flickr comments anyway. Tender fish with crispy batter, okay chips, but perhaps a little overpriced.
Thursday, 13 August 2009
Day 199 - Japanese Curry Pork with Rice
I keep coming back to this dish. It's very filling and great value; but best of all, it's consistently fantastic. The only thing that stops me from eating this everyday is that the blog would become very, very boring!!
~Sik Fan
Wednesday, 12 August 2009
Day 198 - Char Siu
Also known as Chinese BBQ Roast Pork. Pictured here through my wide-angle lens amongst other dishes as part of last night's dinner.
Char Siu is delicious. Soft and juicy for the most part with fantastic crispy over-cooked charcoal-y parts are well. But, like most things that are so delicious, it's not very healthy!
Monday, 10 August 2009
Day 197 - Sandwich in a Bowl
Sandwich in a Bowl again today. It's a great option at the Sandwich Club ran Cafe at HKUST when I want something lighter than the roast or full-on rice or spaghetti options.
Eating at the Cafe also has the additional benefit of being able to sit outside which, even in the heat, is quite bearable so long as there's a breeze blowing.
Sunday, 9 August 2009
Day 196 - Take Away Pizza from PizzaBox
A take away dinner tonight with two pizzas, a rice, a spaghetti and some snacks.
Here in Hong Kong, it's common for pizza places to shun the traditional tomato base and go with a thousand island dressing instead. The ham and pineapple pizza in the background here being an example.
Although it may not sound like a great idea, it's actually pretty good, and I imagine once people can get passed the false necessity of a tomato base, many other great substitutions will spring up.
Everybody Loves a Birthday...
I love mine...
... and you guys love mine too! - According to the latest poll: Day 188 - Birthday Cake, running away with the voting. I may be late with the last couple of days of photos, but at least the poll will be up on time.
Vote away!~
... and you guys love mine too! - According to the latest poll: Day 188 - Birthday Cake, running away with the voting. I may be late with the last couple of days of photos, but at least the poll will be up on time.
Vote away!~
Day 195 - Banana Split with Vanilla Ice-cream
I was originally thinking to go all out and drizzle this with Chocolate Sauce... Not having any chocolate sauce sure put an end to that idea, but the dessert turned out great anyway. Delicious.
Day 194 - Tomato Minced Meat with a Fried Egg and Rice
After ordering this dish, while waiting for it to arrive, I thought back to Day 179 - the terrible pork in "Tomato Sauce" and was a little worried about what I'd done. As it turned out, I needn't have been worried, the biggest problem with the dish being that I wished there was more of it!
Thursday, 6 August 2009
Day 193 - Raisin Bran
Thinking back, there's very few photos of my breakfast in the 365 Days (so far). I think this is partially because my brain just isn't working that fast at that time in the morning, and I forget the photos. The other part is, of course, that I eat the same thing almost every single day!
Wednesday, 5 August 2009
Day 191 - Homemade Wartip
Very similar to last week's Wonton, last night I made War-tip (better known as: fried dumplings). They're normally made with round skins as opposed to the square ones for Wonton, and with a slightly different filling. The key difference, of course, being that they're pan-fried instead of boiled in soup.
As you can see here we feasted on War-tip, with this large pan completely filled. Again, a little spicy chilli soy and this are simply mouthwatering.
Monday, 3 August 2009
Day 190 - McDonald's Fries
Despite having very good sushi for dinner tonight I decided to opt for a slightly different photo than the regular fare. McDonald's Fries: crispy, salty, tasty... and likely to look exactly the same after 20 weeks of just sitting around. Gotta take the ups with the downs right?
Day 189 - Dinner at Home
A fairly standard type of family dinner with with Chicken, Curry and Choi and Tofu among other dishes. The biggest difference here, being the lens used to take the photo: my new birthday present!
Day 188 - Birthday Cake
And free birthday cake at that. We had dinner at Pizza Express in Taikoo Shing on Saturday night. Despite being a little cautious about the fast-food nature of the name, I was very pleasantly surprised with this restaurant. Everything was good and the stand-out dish was the Peking Duck Pizza (which I'll post in the flickr comments), but I thought I had to post at least one photo of cake.
Day 187 - Beef with Black Pepper and Celery
We had dinner at Lin Heung Teahouse (蓮香樓) in Central, which is a fairly well known and quite old restaurant. We ordered Crispy Chicken, Sweet and Sour Pork (on the right here), Fried Noodles with Sliced Pork (background), Eggplant with Minced meat (foreground), Choi and the Beef with Black Pepper. Nothing was a particularly stand-out dish but nothing was terrible either. Everything, however, was very Chinese, from the tables, to the service, to the elderly gentleman at another table that was constantly watching the gweilos eat.
Don doens't mean rice, it means rice ball...
...or so I was told. But that didn't stop the Mochi Cafe Teriyaki Premium Pork Don from taking out last week's photo contest by a lone vote. Sorry about running a little late with the updates, birthday weekend and all... Because of this I've extended the voting deadline this week till Midnight Saturday (Hong Kong time). The new poll will be up shortly!
~Sik Fan
Friday, 31 July 2009
Day 186 - Octopus Balls and Green Tea Soymilk
A pre-dinner snack in Mong Kok.
The Green Tea Milk is a freebie when buying the Octopus Balls, but not very good at all. We should have gone for a regular soft-drink, but you'd never know unless you try it.
The Octopus Balls themselves were great. Although it sounds a little strange, they were just how I like them: crisp on the outside, soft in the middle, with a slightly chewy piece of octopus inside. Delicious!
Thursday, 30 July 2009
Day 185 - Homemade Pork Wonton
Yes... the gweilo can make Wonton! The skins are bought but we make the filling and I fold the wonton by hand.
I've become very adept at the process and can certainly make them faster than I can eat them these days!
The soup is very basic with just a little soy and spring onion, and once dipped in some sipcy soy, the wonton are delicious.
Wednesday, 29 July 2009
Monday, 27 July 2009
Day 183 - Chicken Soup Noodle Lunch Set
Also served with a Sausage and Baked Bean Omelette and a Bread Roll with Butter. Not bad and quite cheap.
Day 182 - Mango, Cream and Pancake Layer Cake
Happy half-way cake!
...and also for the plethora of family birthdays that occur around the start of August. This cake has a top and bottom of pound cake with layers of cream, mango and pancakes in between. It's coated in cream with extra Mango on top. Sweet enough for you?
Sunday, 26 July 2009
Smoked Duck and Roast Chicken Fried Rice Noodle Sandwich?... What?
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A tie this week after the sandwich made a late run. The new poll is already open!
Day 180 - Salami, Cheese and Salad Sandwich
I originally asked for a toasted cheese and salami sandwich (which is normally just salami and cheese, toasted in a grill) but instead I got a salami and salad sandwich with cheese and toasted bread! Not exactly what I wanted, but still okay.
Thursday, 23 July 2009
Day 179 - Sliced Pork in Tomato Sauce with Rice
Lunch today was Sliced Pork in Tomato Sauce, and probably for the first time in my 365 Days of Food, I can report a bad dish. Despite not sounding too bad on paper, this dish was fairly terrible. The Pork wasn't bad, but not good either. The rice overcooked. Worse of all, however, the "Tomato Sauce" was nothing more than clear-ish goop (probably made with water and corn flour) and seriously lacking in tomato. I tried adding extra pepper, but nothing was going to save this dish.
At least the Dong Yuen Yeung was great!
Wednesday, 22 July 2009
Day 178 - Coffee and a Cocktail Bun
An afternoon snack since I wouldn't be having dinner till very late. Good coffee being hard to find in Hong Kong, I often opt for Starbucks, which, while certainly not super high ranking, is consistent. I also went with a cocktail bun, for that sugar high for my post-work netball session. Not healthy by any measure, but a rather tasty combination.
Sik Mein Bau!~
Tuesday, 21 July 2009
Day 177 - Penne Carbonara with Prawns and Mushrooms
A slightly altered Carbonara recipe tonight, including prawns and mushrooms. Not bad at all, although I think I prefer the original.
Monday, 20 July 2009
Day 176 - Mochi Cafe Teriyaki Premium Pork Don
Dinner at Mochi Cafe in TST tonight. Although I ordered the same Wafu Salad with Crabmeat as last time, I thought I should upload a photo of something new. The Wafu Salad was terrific and a highlight for me (I'll post it in the flickr comments). The Teriyaki Pork Don (Don meaning rice) was good, but perhaps the meat was a little fatty for my taste. Overall a great meal.
PS: Head over to the flickr page to see tonight's Wafu Salad with Crabmeat.
Sunday, 19 July 2009
Pork Chop Hotplate: Delicious-ness in motion
From quite a few good shots, the Pork Chop Hotplate (Day 162), walks away the Weekly Photo Champ. Sorry for the delay in posting the last couple of photos, but they're up now and rrreeeady to vote on!
~Sik Fan~
Day 175 - Dan Saan
These Deep-fried Honey Crisps are sweet and often served at Dim Sum Restaurants. Strangely, although considered a dessert dish, they are often bought to the table along with everything else. Very tasty though!
Day 174 - Instant Noodles with a Fried Egg
I may be a food lover (the primary problem anytime I try to diet), but I'm certainly not a food snob. I like McDonald's (sometimes), and I really like Instant Noodles. My favourite is Indomie, an Indonesian brand of Instant Noodles. Salty, a little spicy, with plenty of MSG and sooo good.
Day 173 - Roast Chicken Sandwich
A quick post-climb lunch at my desk. This time around I asked for extra pepper (which I got), but it seems they skimped on the Mayo a little! Can't win them all.
Friday, 17 July 2009
Day 172 - Smoked Duck Breast with Fried Rice Noodles
I wanted a large lunch today, after running 10km this morning and planning a swim after work. In the end it was a toss-up between the Spicy and Sour Chicken Noodle Soup and the Smoked Duck Breast with Fried Rice Noodles. I went with the Rice Noodles because it looked bigger, and wow, it was a large serving! Just what I needed to sink to the bottom of the pool.
Thursday, 16 July 2009
Day 171 - Take-Away Chiu Chow Food
Dinner last night was take away Chiu Chow food. There's a selection on my plate here: Sweet and Sour Pork, Garlic Broccoli, Chilli Clams and Crabmeat Pancake. We also had Tofu, Marinated Pork, Fish with Steamed Egg and Bak Choi... I certainly couldn't fit all of it in my bowl!
Sik Fan~
Tuesday, 14 July 2009
Day 170 - Roast Beef & Salad Sandwich
A quick lunch at my desk after a lunchtime run. The addition of tomato sauce certainly helped this sandwich but I still think the Roast Chicken was better.
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