(if you don't want to read my whine fest, skip to the photos, you won't be disappointed!)
When I first landed in Denmark, yes I was exhausted from an 8 hour flight, but I expected to arrive in a dark gloomy foreign place where I knew nobody, completely friendless. Instead, I arrived to a beautiful sunny day, made a few friends also studying at CBS on my flight, and got the most welcoming greetings from all the Globers on our first meeting. I was ecstatic! And I rode that adrenaline rush of excitement and marveled in this new place that exceeded all expectations for the rest of my time in Copenhagen. My down days were balanced out with the up days when I got to travel Europe, host dinners, and explore the city. Hong Kong has been a slightly different story...
I realize now I got off on the wrong foot here. Arriving late, I missed Globe family time where everyone else got introduced to the amazing and exciting Hong Kong. Me, well I arrived around 10pm and settled in around midnight after a slightly longer flight through the North pole. In the place that was supposed to be warm paradise after a cold rainy sunless Copenhagen, turned out was freezing with no indoor heat. Sickness hit the second week I was here, lost my voice, which took me almost two weeks to fully recover. The living situation was slightly less ideal, in a dorm that requires you to climb 101 stairs to get anywhere else on campus, and is on the bottom of the mountain, the opposite bottom of where the train station is located-necessary to get to any part of town worth going to. So long story short, for the past 2 months, other than my marvelous weeklong trip to Taiwan over Chinese New Year, I have been doing little to nothing more than aimlessly bum around Hong Kong. Well, that has changed, since last Thursday, I am officially taking Hong Kong by storm...Get ready to be jealous of the weight I am about to gain from all the amazing food I will be consuming...
Day 1 of Amazing Food Adventures in HK: first stop is the one Michelin star rated Tim Ho Wan dim sum restaurant. This is one of the most affordable Michelin star restaurants you will ever get the pleasure of dining at. But be prepared to wait for one of the 20 seats in the restaurant...wait time for 3 on a Thursday afternoon was about 1.5 to 2 hours. But nobody complains about the wait time, because anyone in line would be happy for you to give up your number and be one seat closer to deliciousness--it will only be your loss. Enough teasing, let's get to the main entree...though every dim sum dish we tried was top quality, you didn't experience Tim Ho Wan if you didn't taste their Crispy Char Siu Bao.
Always fresh, hot, crispy bread on the outside is a perfect match with the sweet saucy BBQ pork inside. Order 2 baskets, you can't get this anywhere else, you'll want more than one.
Other choices I highly recommend: Ma Lai Go- brown sugar sponge cake, Flower Dessert, and Chiu Chow Fun Guo-dumplings.
We leave this restaurant holding our stomachs with a tab of just under 180 HKD~$23 USD.
Now that we are full, let's head to Wan Chai for some world famous egg tarts...I mean when you sell tens of thousands of egg tarts a day, you have to be doing something right, right? Honolulu Coffee Shop. If you love flaky crust egg tarts-over 190 layers to be more exact, this is the place to go. For just 4HKD a piece you can't buy just one, so I bought half a dozen. They are just as good, if not better the next day, I like them cold too. Now pair that with a cup of milk tea...I think I'm starting to get a hang of this whole Hong Kong lifestyle.
Details of "Adventure Dai Pai Dong + Dessert" and "Adventure Fluffier-than-your-pillow Egg Sandwiches" soon to come.
