Spent a week to a refresher training course  in HKG, the purpose of the training course is to make are we are qualified and capable to be a fire fighter, life rescuer, first aider….etc and make sure you will have a safe flight! It’s a 3 days course, however before and after the course for sure had spent time with good companions to enjoy Food.

On Saturday 21MAR went to have dinner at this Shake ‘em Buns at Causeway Bay, they do serve yummy burgers at a over the average price. Then went to the Victoria park for the Hong Kong Flower show 2009. Before hading back to rest had some simple dessert

Shake ‘em Buns

Fried Mashed Potatoes

The Classic Burger they call it The Works

Chilli Burger

The Flower Show

Some Young Chinese Orchestra performing at the show

Also promoting the East Asian Games 2009

Some simple dessert before heading back to the hotel to rest

Sunday 22MAR after a very full Dim Sum Lunch(ooops no pics) and a pedicure went to ShauKiWan and walked around……

The Tram Terminus at the East side of  the HK island ShauKiWan

The typical market

Local Strett style food 1 ‘Small Bowl Shark’s fin soup’ (faked shark’s fin)

street style food 2 ‘Small Car Noodle’

Deep Fried Chives Dumplings

Time passed so fast after a 3 days very intense training  went to the Avaitor Pub/Restaurant at Tung Chung with friends for Happy Hours and some food, though the food was something to be considerated, the drinks, the sine and the atmosphere was great!! After all it’s a Pub anyway…

Snack Platter

Tandoori Lab(or Mutton to be exact because ofthe taste)

Duck config with Angel Hair

Grilled Mixed Seafood

On Thursday 26MAR before operating the flight back to Vancouver, Had an afternoon tea at the lobby lounge of the InterContinental Hotel HK, I was here over a year ago for their tasty  French Burger( a Burger with pan fired foi gras , sundreied tomatoes, and truffles whcih is still my favourite Burger!)and thier silver ware and 5 star service, my tea cup was automatically refill througout. The Highlight this time of course is the tea. The tea leaves they currently using on their Menu is from France  Mariage Frere  and the flavour I choose was Marco Polo with the Flavour of fruits and flowers of China and Tibet. The flavour was so good that it could last till my very last cup which was 3 1/2 hours later with numerous of hot water refills it was such a delight!

  It was a beautiful weekend  in HKG however the Winter seems not going away as the temperature suddenly dropped to 13C on Friday night so it was a cool Saturday after having brunch with my friend we eventually decided to go to one of the outlying islands in HKG –  Cheung Chau ( Long Island) hm…last time I was here should be 1996 before I moved over to Vancouver.

The ferry ride to Cheung Chau from Central HK Island was about 45 minutes, once you step out or the ferry pier , you will see how busy the place is…as Cheung Chau is one of the most popular week-end place to the HKG locals they usually spend 1 or 2 nights here for a very short break specially during  Summer as can find a nice long beach here where u can do waterspots remember this is the place where the Li Lai Shan was born and  started her wind surfing career and got her(as well as Hong Kong) First Olympic Gold Metal in 1996 Atlanta Olympic Game

Inside the Ferry, and the woman next to me was eating, which is very common with the local, I remember when I was a kid I used to buy a bowl of  instant noodle with fried egg and Luncheon meat from the food kioks in the ferry

Leaving the Central  Ferry Pier

Approaching Cheung Chau after about a 45 mins ride

The main street off the Ferry Pier

The main beach of Cheung Chau –  Tung Wan actualy I had my very first swim here at the age of 8

Here’s the place where we could rent the lockers, have snack , drinks and for the adults they could even play Mah-Jong here while the kids are having fun on the beach!

The is actually the kitchen of a restaurant

Cheung Chau is still a Fishermen village

Dried sea food for sale

walk along the hill…..a mini hiking…

finding the way to the Cheung Po Chai(Tsai) Cave a place where the accient priate put their treasure

here is  the entrance of the cave  this is my 2nd time at this place the first time was in 1979 when I was 13 with a gorup of school mates and I was one of the few who didn’t go into it, and now in 2009 I just dare to take a picture only so I have never seen those Treasures

after all the walk took the Kai-To(small boat ride) back to the main street

on the way and the weather was beautiful

Home of the fishermen?

at the fishermen village of course you can find those Sea food restaurnat

we ended the day tour with some street food, curry fish ball and fish meat Siu Mai(kind of dunpling)

How could my entry without food pictures! At night back to CauswayBay HK Island we had this family style Indian Food restaurant

Tandoori Lamb

Basmatic Rice and Nann Bread

Cottage chesse Spinach

Murgh(Chix) Makhani

 Sat had a belated birthday dinner with a group of ex-collegues at the Lumiere IFC Hong Kong a restaurant serves Fusion/Sichaun cuisine. As one of the high-end restaurnats, this one offers above average food, with a nice decor, Bar and a ver good view of the Victoria Harbour. However the high-light of the evening was the Birthday Boy who could have totally forgotten our dates and went for the gym, left his mobile phone inside the locker and let the whole group worrying for early 2 hours , luckily  he returned call after we had finished our appertizers and joined us for the rest of the evening, otherwise the birthday cake would have been cut by me….who just love celebrating birthday every nights hahahaha……

The Bar

A complementary welcome cocktail Water-Melon/Vodka with Cocoa Powder

The setting waiting for the Birthday Boy

Appertizers: the Chix Roll with Special Sauce

Fried Veggie Roll

Deep Fried Taro Ball with pork

Some basic Sichaun dishes which are very good to go with steam rice

Dan Dan Noodle

Pan-fried Dumpling

Complementary Birthday Cake with Vanila IceCream with Chilli

you won’t feel the sensation of the chilli till you swallow the ice-cream such an experience…