Fried wonton, the simplest style - just seasoned minced pork as fillings, and no fancy shapes…
Fried wonton (Chinese dumplings)
Fried wonton (Chinese dumplings)
My first try on making a pancake (Jan 17, 2008)…
Pancake and a cup of coffee… simple breakfast
Okie, ‘making’ is an overstatement… it’s just buying the ready made pancake flour and mixed it with the right amount of water to create the batter before cooking it.
Not bad for a first try; I think the batter was too thick and the shape of the pancake was a bit unappetising, but it tasted ok. (Just mixing water with pancake flour… how bad could it be?)
Wing Wah (榮華) is one of the two most popular wife cakes makers in Hong Kong. Their first restaurant-bakery (they are famous for Chinese preserved meat too) was opened in 1950, and has now expanded into a catering chain with over 30 outlets in Hong Kong.
Wife cake (老婆餅; lou po beng) is a Chinese pastry traditionally made of winter melons paste. Wife cakes these days came in variety of favours though; such as red bean, almond, coffee, green tea, sesame seed, lotus seed and cheese etc.
Wing Wah’s wife cakes
We found one of Wing Wah’s branches on Nathan Road in Mongkok area. There were all kinds of traditionally Chinese pastries, cookies and cakes available… some of those were freshly made, while some others were in nice packaging which were pretty convenient as souvenirs.
We only got to taste the wife cakes we bought after we were back to Malaysia. The cakes were quite good and tasty… I guess it would be even better if I got to taste it when it was fresh out of the oven. I can’t quite remember how I managed to forget trying some freshly made wife cakes back then.
Stinky tofu (臭豆腐; chou doufu) is a fermented bean curd that stinks. It’s an iconic Hong Kong street food and can be found at some other places in China and Taiwan.
It’s not easy to find stinky tofu in Hong Kong these days; luckily we still managed to spot (or smell) some eateries selling it around Ladies Street in Mongkok (旺角) when we visited Hong Kong in October 2007.
Stinky tofu stall in Mongkok, Hong Kong
This was my first try on stinky tofu (in any places)… the smell stunk but not as bad as expected. Most people who tried it before would suggest that it smells bad but taste ok (or good), and it’s quite true. It’s a bit salty but it’s edible… no way near as bad as how it smelled.
On positive note, Hong Kong style stinky tofu is normally deep fried and had a crunchy texture on the outside, while spongy in the inside… it’s nice.
It’s an adventurous experience, but I don’t think I would ever become a stinky tofu fan… I don’t mind trying other styles of stinky tofu though when I spot it somewhere else.
Cotton candy at Hong Kong Disneyland.
Cotton candy…
I am not really a fan of cotton candy, I don’t have sweet tooth. It brought back some childhood memories though… it’s always fun seeing the candy vendors making the fluffy candy floss.