Hong Kong/Macau food craze!

…finally able to sit quietly in front of my lappie to update. The past few weeks have been rather crazy with all the family trip and cake baking!… Not that I’m complaining, hehe… busy, yes… tired, no doubt… but it has also been super fun and great time of bonding with family and friends ^_^

Well, I have decided to post only the food pics (for other non food related pics, can check out my facebook) ;p reason one being too many photos to upload and reason two is that most of the time spent in macau and hong kong is just makan and makan and makan, hehe… Indeed a food paradise!

Macau

If you think our local portugese tarts are good enough, wait till you try these famous original portugese tarts from Cafe de Nata. The filling is so soft and custardy… I’m definitely going back for more. Each tart costs HK$ 7.

We then went for the double layer milk, my direct translation from mandarin, hehe… It’s called ’shuang pi nai’. This one is highly recommended for milk lovers… costs HK$ 15 for one.

The best souvenir from Macau has to come from Pastelaria Koi Kei that offers a variety of biscuits and dried meat to bring home for family and friends. They have four branches in just one street and each one is equally crowded with people. What I like most about this shop is that you can get unlimited amount of free tasting, hehe

We’ve also tried pork chop bun (chu pa pau) and portugese cuisine. A friend of mine has previously warned me about the portugese food but my family and I thought we should still give it a try anyway and well, I wished I would have listened to the sound advice.

Other attractions apart from the ruins of St. Paul that always appear in movies/dramas, are the musical fountain and the Fortune Tree (Kat Cheung Shu) in the Wynn Hotel. The presentation of the Fortune Tree is way much better and entertaining than the Symphony of Light in Hong Kong, which was a total disappointment! I didn’t record the show but here’s a video I found on youtube… enjoy…

Moving on to the last day in Macau, it was a luxurious one. We stayed a night in the well known Venetian Hotel – the Asian Las Vegas.

*photo taken from flickr*

The suite did cost us a bomb but I would say it’s a very well worth stay and experience Check out their website for more information at http://www.venetianmacao.com/en

Hong Kong – Tsim Tsa Tsui/Kowloon

When you’re in Hong Kong, there are a few things you must not miss. Food would be the milk tea from any ‘cha chan teng’, hong kong dim sum and the mango desserts from Xu Liu Shan… places, I would recommed The Peak and Avenue of Stars or the Wan Chai Promenade.

Our own fair share of dim sum…

Glutinous Rice

Cheung Fun … it can be served with peanut butter, soy sauce and some other spicy sauce.

Water Chestnut Dessert … I love this one.

Polo Bun with Chicken Meat Floss

and introducing the Siu Long Pau …

I have read many good reviews about the mango desserts in Xu Liu Shan, a healthy dessert shop that specialized on mango desserts. And indeed, it was so superbly delicious that I had a few servings during my first visit. Nevertheless to say, I went back again the next day. Way too hard to resist, hehehe…

Mango Platter

the must-try mouth watering Mango Pudding!

Steamed Egg and Milk with Hasmar

some coconut and papaya dessert

I went for the one in Tsim Tsa Tsui… Xu Liu Shan has many branches all around Hong Kong so it wouldn’t be a problem looking for the shop

Hong Kong – Lamma Island

The next day, we went to Lamma Island purely for its scrumptious seafood. The recommended restaurant is called Rainbow. We ordered the seafood set (HK$ 1800) that comprises of steamed prawns (the best really, very sweet), crabs, scallops, lobsters, sweet and sour pork, fried squid, vegetables, fish and a few more other dishes. I was nicely savouring the seafood that I forgot about photo taking until the last few dishes, hehe. Can’t blame me really, the seafood was superb

Crabs in Black Pepper Sauce

My favourite Scallop with Garlic … each of us get to have the whole piece! Just like the lobster, hehe…

Cheese Baked Lobster

Hong Kong – Lantau Island

We visited the Big Buddha in Lantau Island and enjoyed a decent vegeterian meal there. Yeah, for those who know me well, yes, you guys read it right… I actually enjoyed and had a pure vegetarian lunch, haha. Probably I had too much meat the first few days of the trip that I suddenly actually wanted to have greens in my meal ;p

Before I end, let’s have some pics with human in it, hehe…

me in Senado Square, Macau

clockwise: with sis in senado square, with sis and grandma up in The Peak (Hong Kong), with cousin sis halfway climbing the 200+ steps at Big Buddha, Lantau Island (Hong Kong), in Venetian (Macau) and in Senado Square.

cousin bro having fun with the wax figurines in the Madame Tussauds Wax Museum, very creative!

The End… Finally

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