Hong Kong Goodness

Hong Kong is one of the best places in the world... though I may be a tad biased, being half Cantonese. It's a bustling metropolis of old and new world shops, street hawkers, double-decker busses and a bajillion other things.

One of the best things about Hong Kong is no doubt the food... though the shopping is top notch. 

Food is everywhere in Hong Kong. Fresh fruits, veggies and meats of all sorts are sold on the street, making it easy to pick up some tasty ingredients for dinner on the way home.

 

A wide variety of dired goods are also available in shops, which are open to the street.

Here are my sister and father with some fruit.

I loved picking up fresh fruits on the way back to the hotel.




A lot of these fruits are common in Hong Kong, but hard to find in many grocery stores in the U.S. Lychee, dragon fruits, mangosteen and durian are normal fair here.

Now these were some interesting berries. They had no seed in the middle, but the entire berry was actually made of these... fillaments compressed together vertically into a ball of fruit... kind of like straws... Uhh... That's not a great explenation of it...

But the taste was great! It was a little weird, though... To my father, my aunt and I it was sweet with a hint of tartness to it. Kind of like a raspberry and a lemon mixed together. To my mom and sister it was realllllly sour... Maybe it's a taste bud thing?

Now this is my favorite fruit: the mangosteen. It's illigal to import fresh ones to the U.S. because of a certain type of fruit fly that likes it. But, this is the fruit that Queen Victoria herself offered rewards for whoever brought some back to her.

The mangosteen is a very interesting fruit. The skin is thick and dark purple on the outside. It's easily popped open, and is very thick, but not too dense. The juice from the skin is this rich red, but the meat looks like a tiny, naked, white orange.

The taste is very sweet, with a slight crunch to the fruit and a tad sour after taste.

Now here is a cat with durians and veggies.

There is meat sold everywhere... tasty tasty meat... When I went up to take one of these pictures the man smiled and waved at me with the cleaver :)

 I really want that huge block of a cutting board....

Duck..... Tasty, tasty duck......