A blissful HK Trip

Just came back from my holiday of the year. I was crazy enough to book a ticket and flew to HK because I was too sad and I needed something to cheer me up. Turns out, HK trip it is or was. I had a fun 5 days and 4 nights in HK. I was saddened because I planned for all the restaurants to visit but didn't get to ANY of them. I have no idea why. I guess thats why people say human can plan but only God knows the end. So true. Let me show you my initial itinerary.

Look at how neatly arranged our itinerary was. I had everything to eat planned from brekkie to dinner only to found that we had free brekkie buffet at our hotel so good bye and so long brekkie. We can't speak cantonese and had no inet connection (not that we didn't try to buy a sim card, we did but getting connection was way to F***ed up in HK), and thus no google map which means no way we know where our exact location was. 

But.. we discovered few other foods that I didn't expect and to cheer myself up, I'm gonna start to reminisce about it. Perhaps through few blogs. 

Day 1 - Lost in Mong Kok

Our mission to go to a street food fair at Soy Street was crashed when we reached the place and all we found was a street with no sign of food at all. We ended up eating at a cafe where there were plenty of people eating. My chinese character reading is so limited, I probably only know how to read numbers, and nothing else so I had to order their english menu. Unfortunately, (and I always suspect this), they don't have the same menu and I can't find whats the guy next to me eating. But, thanks to my bf's pro chinese, we were able to order the beehoon!

Some street next to soy street beehon. 

Now, I am sorry for my lack of knowledge in the food name but the beehoon was surprisingly delightful. I believe there was some tomato paste mixed into this dish with spam + bacon + Ham. Also, Bean Sprout which I couldn't really taste nor see (actually I simply can't separate it from the lot). Whatever it was, my hungry stomach gratefully accepted it.

The menu sign board at the restaurant

The restaurant ambience

For dinner, we had a restaurant near our hotel in Tsim Sha Tsui, KowLoon. Again.. the name of it was unknown, most likely because it was in chinese... But it was a noodle soup restaurant and their specialty is in their fish soup noodle which I  found very pleasing. I even love their fish balls and fish cakes. But the best thing about this restaurant is their Chili Oil. OMG.. that night, I decided that HK has the best chili oil in the entire world. We also ordered another this which I can barely remember how it tastes like. It was just an ordinary beef char kway teow.. I had no idea why I even allowed that on my table.

That awesome fish soup noodle with fish ball and fish cake.. YUM!!