Today I want to bring you overseas to Hong Kong, to a restaurant that’s operate by my auntie and her family in Kowloon Peninsula of Hong Kong. The restaurant name is called Pak Lam Restaurant and located at Tai Tsun St 大全街 of Tai Kok Tsui 大角嘴 area. You may not know where I am talking about but please allow me to show you some nice food of my auntie’s restaurant.

My auntie is on my mom side and they are all Hainanese. So one of their famous food in the restaurant is the Hainan chicken rice. A set of this consist of vegetable, which very nice to me, soup, chicken and a big bowl of rice. I don’t know whether rice in Hong Kong is it very cheap, they tend to give customer a lot of rice. The chicken rice is different from here, the rice is a little bit hard, not so soft and a little bit oily, but it’s still nice.

Chicken Chop and Steak with white rice and a little bit of vegetable. Hong Kong loves chop a lot, pork chop, chicken chop, beef chop (steak). However, there’s too little vegetable for me.

Beef noodle. The beef is nice, but the noodle is not. It’s not the cooking is not delicious, it’s just that I don’t this type of noodle and that’s why. Beef is quite famous in Hong Kong by the way.

Aunty’s r

One of the must-eat street food in Hong Kong is the curry fish balls. It’s so famous in Hong Kong and you happens to see it at a lot of places selling on a stall or shop by the roadside. I didn’t know much about what to eat in Hong Kong after my brother who went there earlier and told me about all the nice foods. Now, it’s my turn to tell you guys.

The curry fish balls is actually just a fish balls on a stick which you then dip it into the provided hot curry sauce. Well, it’s curry but it’s not that spicy as our local curry. It taste so much different with our curry, it’s like taste of curry powder and that’s all. Not authentic curry with a lot of cooking ingredient though. Selling for like a stick with 4-5 balls at around HK$10, it’s cheap.

The one above was at Times Square area and also I had tried another one near to our hotel at Pitt St, Yau Ma Tei. They taste almost the same, just the size of the balls were different.

So during your visit to Hong Kong, look out for it at the road side. Don’t be surprise to see working people in tuxedo standing there eating fish balls, it’s so common there where a group of students, peoples in uniform standing by the road side eating street food.

I guess it had been like ages that I have not had any in-flight meal which comes on a tray. Although I have been travelling around South East Asia, it were on AirAsia, the budget airline. Where would one provide you food when you pay so little for air fare? I heard that the Nasi Lemak selling on AirAsia is nice, if I got a chance, I must give it a try.

My last long distance travel was like during my Primary School’s Standard 3 which is 8 years ago. Well, I am not that rich to go travel so often, mostly is just around South East Asia, our neighbouring country. Say no to Europe, America at the moment. Parents asked me to save for it if I want to go travel.

Sometimes, people will say “Who would like airplane food? It’s pre-cooked and reheat when wanting to serve.” Seriously, I gotta say that I like it. Maybe it’s the hungryness that made me think that anything is nice, but seriously, it’s not that bad.

On the first flight to Hong Kong from Penang, I was served omelette and sausage. I loves eggs. It was pretty good, with lots of fillings, corns, ham, vegetable and salted egg. It’s a very healthy breakfast or you can say that it’s a balanced diet meal which consist of the omelette itself, bread and butter, fruit juice, fruits, and a yogurt. All of the carbo, protein, calcium etc etc you need is there.

It’s different set of food when we were on the flight back home to Penang. Flight attendant asked me whether to want a chicken rice or a spaghetti. I picked the rice. I thought it was like our local Hai Nan chicken rice but actually it’s not. It’s chicken, with rice and vegetable. Haha. Still, there is a cinamon roll, fruit, and with a ice cream. Yeah. The portion of the food was pretty small, maybe it’s because it’s tea time and they tend to think that we had our lunch and were not that hungry.

Do I miss the food on plane? Well, of course a little bit, but I miss Hong Kong’s food more!

Back in Hong Kong few months ago, I manage to make a visit to one of the Starbucks Coffee. I prefer Starbucks Coffee over Coffee Bean for its nice ice blended coffee and latte too. In Malaysia, people tends to go to Starbucks Coffee to get on the free wifi Internet connection which doesn’t available at Coffee Bean.

Sadly, there isn’t any free Wifi connection provided by Hong Kong’s Starbuck Coffee. Surprisingly, you will not find any Coffee Bean there. It’s just Starbucks Coffee and Pacific Coffee.

During a visit to Repulse Bay, I dropped by at the Starbucks Coffee to buy some food for myself. I did not buy any hot coffee, since we were in the move, I got myself a bottled Frappuccino coffee. I got to say that this is a nice cool drink, you can’t find it in Malaysia, yet or never. I don’t know about it.

Oops, I have forgotten to take down the name of this roll. It’s like an egg roll wrapping with cheese and ham. It taste good, but a little a bit expensive for something that small. Though, it’s just EAT-FOR-FUN. HA!

One thing, Starbucks Coffee outlet in Hong Kong is not as much as we had in Kuala Lumpur.