food trip

Of course, the highlight of my trip was.. FOOD!!

Greenwich pizza

pinoy pizza from Lots'a Pizza

Hen Lin's pork siomai

sizzling bulalo

sizzling caldereta

Goldilocks' cake

crispy ulo from Pixie's sinugba

japanese corn

inihaw na mais

inihaw na liempo

ensaladang mangga

 Purefoods tender juicy hotdogs

pinakamasarap na chicharon with laman

taho

Razon's halo-halo

garlic potato

potato chips on a stick

Jollibee's watermelon sprite float

Quickly's taro milk tea

green tea frozen yogurt with mochi balls
from Red Mango

Muhlach's plain cheese ensaymada

Eng Bee Tin hopia

manggang kalabaw with bagoong
and itlog na maalat

fishballs

pinakamasarap na leche flan

chopsuey

roasted liempo

tahong ginisa sa butter

tanghalian

I miss na mga pagkain sa Pilipinas :(

animal instinct

Meet Lola.

She's our adorable princess type shih tzu.

Look at that cute pose that blends well with my purple walled room at the home where I grew up. But ever wonder why she's on top of the LBC box? That's actually the trick to make her stay still because she's one super likot dog especially when she's excited. And it's almost impossible to take her picture. So put her in a place that's higher than the ground and she's afraid to move around. **haha, gotcha Lola ;)

This is my brother's aviary situated in our second floor terrace at home. I'm not sure exactly how many  bird species he has [and I don't even know what they're called] but this is a hobby and business as well. One time GMA7 Unang Hirit actually even requested to feature this aviary but my brother was just too shy to go for the offer.

Here featuring his giant aquarium..

Now meet Inday's descendants..

real chinese food

2.14.2011 - 2.17.2011

Back in the US whenever we crave something Asian or anything like home food we would go to a Chinese resto. Much to our disappointment will find cheap buffet Chinese food would taste the same on everything, be it pork, chicken, beef, veggie or seafood. But there are also decent ones that serve good chinese food, just consider the fact that it can be really pricey. So I would say I was never this satisfied until I've tasted real Chinese food [without hurting our budget] here in Hongkong. And the best Chinese food I've had was not even from a fine dining restaurant. Even if we did not really have the time to find out and try all the best places, we luckily ended up discovering some of these. How? It was plain simple.. my sister and I would just go inside a jam-packed place where most locals seem to go, then we would just sample whatever looked interesting.

Here's the first place we have tried. This is Ming Yuen Noodles restaurant near Ladies Market in Mong Kok. What caught our attention was how food was cooked in these clay pots or palayok lined up in this giant stove.

This is the best dish we've tried.. that we actually had to do a repeat on our last night in Hongkong ;)

seafood with hot potted rice
crab sticks, shrimp, cuttle fish and scallop sinaing with the rice
this only costs HK$45 = P225 [US$5.8] approx

beef stew brisket with egg noodles
this only costs HK$25 = P125 [US$3.20] approx

And then there's street foods.. 

Too bad, I [honestly] wasn't brave enough to give it a try. It's just that I wasn't sure how my tummy would handle it. And diarrhea would probably be the worst thing to happen if you're on a trip and really far from home. But anyway, the street foods somehow looked really interesting.

I love milk tea, we just had to try it here in Hongkong..

There are actually numerous food stands along the street where you can get it.

But this was the best I've had..  

[and not even my favorite Philippine local Quickly taro milk tea came close]

I would highly recommend this to my friends or anyone who's visiting Hongkong to go and try it but unfortunately I wasn't able to remember the name of the restaurant where I got it **lame.

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taro milk tea

Here's a funny fact: I don't understand what it was with me but I always have to order beef brisket in every meal and in every place we end up to. So guess what, I have tried all kinds of beef brisket, with all different kinds of noodles too. And my sister and I would laugh about it.

beef brisket

And now the other famous Chinese dish that we've tried as well..

wonton noodle soup

pork barbecue [not on a stick]

It was truly a great experience having tried all these great food in another part of the world. And that was actually the best part of the trip.