Kowloon (九龍), Hong Kong // 2015

We rented an apartment in Jordan, a very very strategic location I'd say. There are many good food just a street or two away. 

Jordan 佐敦
Our first night's dinner was at Prosperous Restaurant street stall, or the locals call it 'dai pai dong'.

Somewhere in the back lane, there's this place where we saw a lot of locals eating. Immediately I knew this is where we were going to have dinner that night.

'Sifu' cooking it out in the kitchen. Not very big but a very busy kitchen. 

This was our first meal in Hong Kong, and it was a good start. Everything was yummy. There's 'wok hei' in the noodles. We saw a lot of people drinking Blue Girl beer, so we ordered too. It was good, smooth and easy to drink. It's called 'Lam Mui'  which is a direct translation of 'Blue Girl' in Cantonese. And price for the meal was reasonable. 

One night, WJ, H and myself were just exploring the area and we came across this street with lots of booths by the roadside, only at night.

A street full of fortune telling booths! But it was pretty empty, only a couple of booths with customer.

Then, there were booths with people singing. These booths were far more happening. It's like open mic on the street for the senior citizen! They take turns to sing while the rest sat around and enjoy some tea and peanuts.

If you go to Hong Kong, you'll definitely have to eat their noodles. And we did. In fact, we had many types of noodles, cooked in different ways. But, there was one... the very best among all. 

This one.

Mak's Noodle. It may look plain, like nothing much... but it was so freaking good it took me to heaven straight away. The noodles were springy and crunchy. The soup so flavourful. The shrimps in the wantons were big, fresh and springy. This is the BEST shrimp wanton soup noodles anyone can ask for. I crave for it until today, about 2 weeks since we came back from Hong Kong. 

Mak's Noodle 麥奀雲吞麵世家
Ground Floor, 55 Parkes Street, Jordan. Open daily.

Mong Kok 旺角
The most famous thing to eat in Mong Kok must be the 'bo lo bao' (pineapple bun) at Kam Wah Cafe . Funnily, the ingredient to make the bun does not consist any pineapple. It's name as such because of the surface of the bun that supposedly looks like pineapple skin. 

Personally, I wasn't very impressed with the bun but I wanted to highlight something else here. 

At first, we ordered 5 butter pineapple bun for the 5 of us, plus 2 egg tarts to share. But the man keep pestering us to order the pineapple bun with chicken, so we did. It was...ok. Just ok for me. Not great. 

Having already ordered 3 butter pineapple buns, 2 chicken pineapple buns, 2 egg tarts, we decided to only order 3 drinks to share. But it was not good enough apparently. There is a rule for minimum 1 drink order per person for dining in! Me not happy, not happy at all.
And this is the day WJ and I decided to be adventurous and ordered the lemon coffee drink. Bad, bad decision. It tasted bad, like I cannot brain why would they even have this on the menu??
So yeah, I will not dine here again. Takeaway the pineapple bun, maybe.

Tsim Sha Tsui 尖沙咀

Collecting garbage can be cool too especially when it's drizzling, just dress up like this lady. 

We find these fake elevated garden patches pretty cool. 

It's nice to just chill on the fake patch and gaze at the sky.

Next up, Hong Kong Island.