International Foodies

Cocktailized

Mutton, Scallion, cucumber slices and boiled egg shreds cocktailized in one. #East meets the west. Picture inspired by the founder of Tasting-Kitchen.

What Russian Food Hongkongers Eat (Natalia)

My acquaintance with Russian food in Hong Kong eateries started in a canteen at HKBU, when I, quite unexpectedly for myself, spotted ‘Russian Borsch’ on the menu. Needless to say, I tried it; it turned out quite good. It was only afterwards that I asked myself, why on earth is the Russian dish on the […]Read Post ›

蟹蟹

＃阳澄湖大闸蟹 Not sure if I can piece up the bones left over back together into a full crab. The idea of it strikes me as a bit disgusting. If you pay close attention to the greenish moss in between the two crabs, it can turn to be uncanny 😉 Enjoy this instructional video on […]Read Post ›

Gallery: Causeway Bay: ‘Case Study’ on a Friendly Tofu Shop

One of the first eateries that popped up in my mind immediately when thinking of local Hong Kong food was “Yan Wo Dou Bun Chong” (人和荳品廠), a shop specialising in bean products that has been in Causeway Bay for decades. I remember Mom taking me there last year, and being struck by the nice sense of […]Read Post ›

Matriarchal Hot Pot

So this old lady was said to be the prettiest gal in her younger years in the neighborhood, thus married to the chieftain in Shangri-La and all his brothers too, in a matriarchal local society. Long Live the Patriarch. Let’s pray ten thousands years for it. just kidding Actually the assorted hot pot was pretty weird. […]Read Post ›

Cheung Chau Cuisine: A Touch of Otherness

Whenever I visit an outlying Hong Kong island that has enough population on it to have street food, I feel like being in another city. Cheung Chau, a delicious (in a literal sense as well) tourist attraction, offers a shining example of otherness to a visitor acquainted with Hong Kong cuisine. As soon as you […]Read Post ›

Fifty Shades of Eating Out in Hong Kong: From Tai Po Market to Temple Street (Natalia)

What follows reflects my photo-taking trip from Tai Po Market through Sha Tin to Temple Street. These are mostly street eateries, since they seem to reveal certain aspects of Hong Kong culture more explicitly than their indoor counterparts. This one is located indoors, but the atmosphere is quite similar to what you can usually spot […]Read Post ›

The Butterhead

So I was eating this in the dorm. I complained to mom the food in Shanghai is too greasy. She told me to buy a butterhead or violet cabbage. I went to the market and found the dark purple color too awe-inspiring thus chose the light-colored butterhead instead. Back then Fudan University made headlines again […]Read Post ›

Wan Chai (Part Three: Street Food!) (Liz)

For the third in my ‘Wan Chai Series’, I will take us to the Ada Food Plaza in Wan Chai, which is a place for street food with quite some history 🙂 The main point I’d like to make here would be how there is a certain consistency in street food in terms of the […]Read Post ›

一点点

In my hand was a ticket of the Chinese play adaptation of Brief einer Unbekannten by 孟京辉。黄湘丽 was good, but so understated. She had to say she worked for the studio at the end of the play after that mentally excruciating and physically exhausting two-hour monodrama. Poor girl. This provoked the feminist in me as […]Read Post ›