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• Surf and Turf - Cantonese Style
  on Dec 1, 2016 in Cantonese
  Hong Kong is getting cool and one of our favourite foods in this weather is mutton hot pot. In fact one mutton hot pot for two persons is quite enough, but we just want a little something more.  The restaurant sells seafood as well.  So we...
• Car Racing in Hong Kong
  on Aug 20, 2016 in Activities Events
  I love the excitement of car racing, but I’m also afraid of the dangerous nature. There is a place in Hong Kong where offers a virtual racing experience, which is completely safe, and everyone qualifies to be a racer. Here you don’t even have t...
• Summer Solstice Teppanyaki Dinner
  on Jun 22, 2016 in International Food
  Few people celebrate Summer Solstice. It so happened that we did it last night.  Two of our team members, including myself, have our birthday in June (16 & 25), our boss took us to a Teppanyaki dinner, which was also to celebrate her promoti...
• Photogenic Banquet
  on May 31, 2016 in Banquet Cantonese
  The International Gourmet Master Chefs Association holds competitions every year globally and regionally.  The banquet here our family went for Dragon Boat Festival was said to have won the Best Photogenic Award.  Frankly we would say only...
• French Dinner
  on Apr 7, 2016 in International Food
  My friend took me to a French dinner last night.  It was my first time having French food in Hong Kong.  I only know couple of very expensive Michelin Star French Restaurants within 5-star hotels, but never been there. The one we went last...
• Easter Seafood Buffet
  on Mar 26, 2016 in Buffet Hotel Food International Food
  My Easter Seafood Buffet is free.  In fact I haven't had buffet for sometime, due to my eating problem.  However I won some free coupon by luck draw, so I have this free buffet dinner.Coupons usually have blackout dates, but I was lucky tha...
• Chinese New Year Foods 2016
  on Feb 7, 2016 in Cantonese Festival Food
  Today is Chinese New Year Eve - Year of the Monkey is approaching in minutes. I have collected some photos of the foods that Hong Kong Chinese usually eat, especially Cantonese. There are some foods that we eat during Chinese New Year.  I've g...
• Seafood Annual Dinner
  on Jan 28, 2016 in Banquet Cantonese Seafood
  Seafood dinner is many Hong Kong people's favourite.  9 out of 10 Hong Kong Cantonese love it, including myself.  As Chinese New Year is approaching, our family decided to go for a seafood annual dinner.  Normally we pick from set...
• Seafood Dinner Special Price
  on Jan 16, 2016 in Cantonese Seafood
  I've mentioned in my blog that if you want to eat good things at good price, you can play around with date and time. Here's a good example.  The seafood dinner set below costs HK$398 per person Friday to Sunday.  However if you go on Monday...
• Christmas Eve Lunch
  on Dec 24, 2015 in Festival Food International Food
  Christmas Eve lunch is not always possible for me. Although people enjoy eating at festival seasons, but eating at high season may not be an enjoyable experience.  First, restaurants are full of people, you are running short of the normal servic...
• Mobile Phone Multi-Tasking in Hong Kong
  on Nov 22, 2015 in Sightseeing
  We always talk about multi-tasking in the work place. But it does not stop there.  You can find people multi-tasking everywhere in Hong Kong, and most of these scenarios are having mobile phones involved.  Indeed, mobile phone has become an...
• Nice Cantonese Dinner in Wanchai
  on Nov 22, 2015 in Cantonese
  My company pays a quarterly free dinner for secretaries.  We vote and pick our favourite restaurants every time.  This time someone nominated Sing Kee Seafood Restaurant in Wanchai.  Although I live around that area, it was my first ti...
• Pink Breakfast at Butcher's Club Deli
  on Oct 19, 2015 in International Food
  The Breast Cancer Fund organized a Pink Walk at the Peak yesterday.  Our company joined the walk and then took us to a "pink breakfast" after the walk.It is an annual fund raising event.  Once I hopped on the bus towards the Peak, I no...
• Wu Kong Shanghai Restaurant
  on Aug 14, 2015 in Shanghai
  Grand Mum's Pork 外婆紅燒肉Although this is very soft and juicy, I would still grade it as 'failed'.  Why?  As its name indicates, this dish is cooked for grand mums, whose teeth are generally weak and cannot manage a lot of chewing.&n...
• Non Spicy Sichuan Food
  on Jul 25, 2015 in Sichuan
  Non spicy Sichuan food? Are here really any? Yes of course.  If you love Sichuan food but cannot put on too much heat, there are still plenty of choices.I have a coupon of HK$100 for dinner at a Sichuan restaurant.  So I took my sister the...
• All About Dragon Boat Festival
  on Jun 20, 2015 in Eat and Drink Festivals
  Today is Dragon Boat Festival - May 5 in Chinese Calendar (June 20, 2015)Today is Dragon Boat Festival, Chinese society generally have a day off.  In Hong Kong, it's a public holiday; while in China, the holiday spans through June 19 to 22.Let's...
• Intermittent Fasting System
  on Mar 30, 2015 in Fasting Diet
  The diet you follow whilst Intermittent Fasting will be determined by the results that you are looking for and where you are starting out from as well, so take a look at yourself and ask the question what do I want from this?If you are looking to los...
• Intermittent Fasting Results: What You Can Expect
  on Mar 23, 2015 in Fasting Vacation
  Intermittent fasting is a feeding pattern which alternates between periods of fasting and controlled eating. It is a simple dietary method divided into many types. One of the intermittent fasting methods is alternate day fasting, whereby a person tak...
• What Are the Benefits of Fasting?
  on Mar 16, 2015 in Health Benefits
  In the United States the percentage of obese people is growing. Currently 35% of Americans are obese. Experts predict that soon 50% of the people in the U.S. will be obese. There are many reasons for this but there is one main reason. People eat too...
• The Truth About Fasting
  on Mar 10, 2015 in Fasting Tips Health Benefits
  The benefits of fasting have been big news lately. But how effective is it? Most people are interested in it as a weight loss tool, and indeed you can lose weight using it, but in reality it has many benefits beyond weight loss, and some of them are...