Dinner a the King Ludwig Beerhall Wan Chai..

German food and beer, of  cause I only had the food…

Live music throughout…….with a  drink…Safe Sex on the Beach

goulash with veal’s cheek     and a spinach clam chowder

Bread with Herb Spread and Beef liver pate,  German Sausages Platter

Chix a la King on potatoe cake, with the German Pig Knuckle

Dessert combo

Yum Chai  Yum Chai…..Baked Pineapple bus with  Almond custard, Steam Fish(河鮮) on rice

remember I  first had lunch at this Nahm restaurant about a year ago?

revisit it a couple of day ago for dinner……

Red Dragon actually a ice slush drink of Dragon Fruit, Strawberry…, then Spicy chicken and mushroom coconut soup…

 Grilled Sea bass, oyster mushroom,  green vegetables  Thai Yellow Curry…… coconut flavor steam rice…

Braised Lamb Shank with tamarind curry and poached nachi pears

Another dinner at the Japanese chain Pokka Cafe at the family square CWB

set dinner at around HKD150 /person you will have  a Pumpkin Soup

at another soup at half of the menu price this one Ox tail soup, and an appetizer  hm…for got the full name of this, like a mini salad with  a piece of sashimi

main course…a New Zealand steak, mixed grills

Here came the surprises, the meat were hot and tasty however the side dish potatoes were cold, we ask the captain if it was meant to be served cold, he said no and apologized, picked up the potatoes and asked me to have the meat while he asked the kitchen to  fix us some fresh hot onee….. of cos at the end the potatoes came after we finished our meat, therefore other than the origianl set dinner dessert, we received another dessert  on the house……

The problem potatoes and the red bean cake

complimentary dessert  cappuccino ice-cream cake

skin care? make up? botox? which way you prefer to keep up your appearance?

In HKG the law and justice are exactly the same as Mainland China or some other parts in SE Asia, as long as your are rich and have some kinds of social status, you are  nearly free to do anything, even if you have broken the law ..

The Case just to remind you…..this is her THIRD time!

The Verdit

Another Tonkatzu time…..it has been a year since my last Tonkatzu meal, Last Thurs I went to try this Tonkatzu Ginza Bairin at the IFC mall in Hong Kong, the restaurant is originally from  Ginza ,Tokyo Japan since  1927.

Deep Fried Crab Cake and the  ChilledTofu Dish.

though you could find lots of crab meat, the texture was a bit loose luckily the bread crumb layer was hard enough to hold on everything,  the chilled tofu was as usual very refreshing.

Fried Pork Fillet Set and the Fried Oyster Set

The good thing of having the set is you can have free refill of the steam rice and the cabbages…..
Next time I will just order the Fried Pork Loin  because  the Fillet which had less fat made the texture a bit tough and in this case I also found the layer a bit too hard……I didn’t try the oyster because I am not a fan of it….

Fried Pork Loin Set, my friend let me tried this out and the texture of the meat was more tender and juicy, while both of us also found the layer was also too hard.. and we eventually ordered the Japanese curry sauce aimed to go with the rice but we also  used it as a dip for our pork…..

oh I miss the Tonkatzu I had last time at the World Trade Centre CWB…..

Tuesday night went to have this SilkRoad(XinJiang) Cusine Al Pasha Restaurant at the K11 Mall TST Kowloon which I think is a kind of  ancient fushion food…Middle East meets Chinese…..

Chinese style eggplant with peanut/sasame sauce, grill mutton

Grill Ox-tongue, and Bellydancing as entertainment

xinjiang bread with goose liver pate and olive dip

Pita bread with yoghurt, hommous and eggplant dip, Chinese Tofu with sweet soy sauce

Mutton kebbab, stir-fried Camel Hump with asparagus

Goat Stomache Soup,  and XinJiang style chicken cassarole with middleast pasta

Stirfried chinese beans, fried crepe filled with red bean paste and guava ice-cream

Fried sasame ball with yoghurt

Havn’t been posting food pics for some times, here is a recap for a couple of places I have visited over the past 2 months…

Meloty Fine Tea in Richmond BC a Taiwanese immigrant runs this Tea House since 1999 I think I did post their tea and dessert a while back, and this May tried dinner menu, frankly for an entree the price is par with the local restaurants like Milestone, Cactus…. at least they do offer to top up with   CAD9 to make it a set dinner, which includes a soup/salad, a main course, a dessert and a tea/ coffee.

The cream of mushroom soup  or the mixed greens salad

Seafood spaghetti  and the Stirfired Lobster pasta

Grilled Prime Rib……medium rare

4 different sets of the dessert trio

In June spent a week off in Hong Kong and also tried out these places

A very Fusion Chinese food Club Qing at LKF…..a restaurant with a chinese decor, and serving chinese food with a touch of everyhere

This lunch set menu is  at HKD250/person,  for the appetizers  today : Kurobuta (aka Black) Pork’s ham roll with mushroom,

The second one: Chilled Baby Tomatoe with Lychee Sauce , and the first course Deep Fried Chicken Stick with Passion Fruit  Yogurts sauce, it was soo crispy on the outside and very tender and juicy inside…..

2nd : Steam egg-white and Soy-beam milk with xo sauce – interesting combination and taste  like a savory  Douhua(aka. beancurd flower a dessert) and even softer… 3rd a Traditional Chinese Soup – Yellow Cucumber, Sea shell and Hokkiga (japanese clams) which is very teaty and luckily I couldn’t taste a trace of….MSG! good job!

Sanuki Udon in Prime Beef Consume : using very good Japanese udon from Kagawa Prefecture, in a very good soup base( again no trace of MSG) and New Zealand  beef, even the Radish is with good quality soft and tender like without any fiber. and the dessert a citrus foam with pomelo hm…… a bit too sour to my taste….

A light dinner having this baked BBQ Pork(Char Siu) with Peach on Fried rice at Tai Hing……hm……typical HK fast food….

Another night had dinner with a group of friend at this Tai Wing Wah Village Cuisine at Kowloon Bay, a kind of traditional village home made food…….I foud the food quite good and not too memorable except those I will talk about after, and it was quite reasonable at price actually even cheaper than a meal in TST or CWB with the same kind of quality….

Steam Rice in a clay pot with premium soy sauce and….LARD,  yes I know…it’s unhealthy thats’ why I shared it with 2 ladies….and oh my……it’s so delicious, maybe it’s one of the reason why their boss( nick name To To),  is soo over weight!

and there’s not a dessert of Almond Sweet soup, it’s actually the Soup.with main ingredient Pig Lung, Ginkgo

Steam Sponge Cake (馬拉糕) with custard…. and the  Steam White Lotus Seeds paste bun

After watching Chicago – The Musical went to have this afternoon tea at the Pomme

Then went for a hot pot dinner at Tanyutou(譚魚頭), usual food but with some different condiment, we order the Tomatoe Soup in stead of their famous Sichuan chilli  soup, therefore had this  bowl of condiment with peanuts, chilli, garlic, chinese parsley …..etc, you have to put the soup into the bowl then after you’ve cooked your food int he hot pot you dip them into this bowl and eat…..

Here’s  the hot pot with all the veggie, dumpling and food……

The kid in the following Youtube clip represents some of the young people( born during the 90s) behaviour  nowadays, not only in Hong Kong or the Far East, the problem is everywhere around the world.  This boy has been talked about in Youtube( the original clip without the sub-title), a Hong Kong forum, and even facebook…..I feel sad for him because I really will not blame on him, nor the school but his parents.

If  two of you need to work 20 hours a day  7 days a week just to survive or to achieve your personal goals and cannot spare time to raise, educate, guide you children to grow. please  please do not have kids…….only giving  food and all the material stuff , rely on the hands of the grand-parents or helpers cannot  help them to grow into a quality human being….Basic manners should be taught by their own parents even before the kids went to the kinder-garden..or some couple are actually not qualified to be parents…..?

Have you ever thought of how a blind person lives his daily life? Sat afternoon I went with a group of friends and experienced it….it’s called Dialogue in the Dark a activity aimed to raise fund to asisit the blind people in their daily life..

8 people in a group, and you will be guided by leader, using the a blind cane and walk through….in a total darkness…… 

A park, to ride a ferry, shopping at a market, have a drink and chat in a bar…..

At the begining, it was fear and helpless, cos we could not see anything, however after a while once you get used to  your other senses…to touch, to listen, to smell, last but not least the courage to explore….it’s really make you see those blind people in another way……..

Dialogue in the Dark may not be available in every country, however if it does in your place, be sure to experience it….

It was such a day on Saturday…….

In the morning got a call from the office to noperate the afternoon flight back to HKG…how nice, that means it will be an extra trip for this month…..

Rushed to the office to attend the preflight briefing…..everything seems normal except the Inflight Manager mention she would like to test us later for how well we will perform a secuirty check once borad the aircraft…..hm…interesting….is this for fun or serious? Anyway…. briefed my junior crew to perform all kinds of checks thoroughly….

At the gate….wow….. why so many Vancouver airport authorities and the Royal Mounted Police, Custom Officer, gathered around…..hm…..something not normal even the cockpit crew couldn’t board the aircraft. The ground staff told us that the aircraft would have  a thorough Security Search  and wil lbe towed away from the passenger terminal, at the waiting area, all pax, crew, staff memeber needed to move at least 250 feet away from the original boarding gate….ok being in the business for so long we knew what is happening…a Bomb Threat but we could not release and say anything cos the authority did not confirm anything about it. And since the whole situation was taken over by the local authorities we all could only follow their instruction

We then went to have lucnh at the airport restaurant and wait at another area for further information, while we wre waiting, we got online and with the power of FaceBook , informaiton been released…the airport received totally 3   Bomb Threat phone calls from a local mall pay phone, the first one claiming a bomb on board the incoming aircraft, the 2nd claiming the bomb is at the airport area, the 3rd one claiming that the bomb will be on the outing going flight…therefore the authorities took a serious measure  and snet 2 Flighters to escort the incoming aircraft to land….following are the pic taken by my co-worker who was traveling on that flight back home..

Pic 1

Pic 2

Luckily the aircraft landed safely, and all incoming pax had to go to security search too…..

after nearly 5 hours on ground delay the authority annouced the incident was a Hoax and we were clear to board the flight and operate back to HKG

By the time I got into my hotel room…..I just realised I was awake over 24 hours….

 

Last Thursday night at the  company’s  Spring Dinner Party I was presented with a 10th year of service award along with a couple of others colleagues. Really, I have never thought of working at one company for this long.

I first joined this company in 1989 while I was living in Hong Kong, working at the airport, after being scolded and tortured by the boss and the clients for so many years, I left and moved to Vancouver Canada in 1996,  spent 3 years there being on and off  from jobs,  just 2 months before I decided to move back to Hong Kong, I was offered to rejoin  this company  and have to chance to go back and forth to Hong Kong very frequently.

If you asked me, is this the best company to work for? hm……..then I have to say,  in my opinion there is no best company or boss around, neither a Commercial Company( they are so  concentrated on making  a profit) nor a Government/Charity Division ( they do have a Budget governing them). So as I evaluate my current job condition:  a reasonable pay and working hours, plus the fringe benefits provided by the company, I think it’s nice to work for this company, and appreciated the connection with her for nearly 20 years.

Oh yes ….to Appreciate