Gastronomical Diary

03/07
SFO enroute to Hong Kong
Breakfast-egg skillet w/ bacon and fuchsia bread
In-flight meals
Chicken & Rice
Noodles and a lemon cookie
Beef & Noodles

03/08
Monte Carlo Café in Fanling, Hong Kong – Rice w/ abalone

03/09
Cliff bar & banana
Korean Bar-b-que w/ Bing bing baugh rice in Kowloon
Shanghi style Chinese in Fanling

03/10
Cliff bar & banana
Pork & Rice - In-flight to Beijing (lots of odd packets…cleaning products? Food? Certainly fun.)
Big dinner all at one table in Beijing – duck, corn ‘Chinese French toast’, black noodles, tomato w/chicken soup & jelly-fish

03/11
Chinese breakfast w/ fermented bean curd
Dinner w/ Larry’s brother at two tables – shrimp, “corn bread”, fish, beef, lotus root & eel

03/12
More fermented bean curd on corn bread w/ noodle, soup and dumplings
Muslim restaurant – wow, love the kebabs
Hot pot restaurant – we got frog AND live turtle my friends! Very spicy hot just for you.

03/13
Did I mention the bean curd…
Manchurian Chinese with Joseph T’s friend…excellent.
Peking Duck with Robert Glover…fried scorpions just don’t fill you up

03/14
Egg taco w/ cabbage & sauce on the street
Lunch with the school kids…I think I saw a potato
Dinner with the arty side of the PLA…still no fried potato nest!

03/15
Noodles In-flight to Shenzhen
Good Chinese on the China Peninsula
More Shanghi style Chinese in Fanling

03/16
Pork filled rolls for breakfast
“Dim sum” place in Sha Tin
Chinese around the corner in Sha Tin

03/17
Dumplings and rolls for breakfast
Catered lunch…good pig skin and green beans
“French” sandwich shop in Mong Kok

03/18
Dumpling burritos for breakfast
Back to Sha Tin dim sum
Catered dinner

3/19
Ramen in Hong Kong airport
Chicken & noodles to Tokyo
Beef w/ potato & mushroom omelet to SFO