Hong Kong

There's restaurants that are, you know, dim sum restaurants. A lot of them say like they're going to go yum cha or they're going to go drink tea. Really, they just go and order a bunch of different small containers of food that you just eat forever and just keep eating and eating and eating. Really good. Inside those, my favorite thing to eat was shrimp siu mai, which are kind of like these little dumpling type things. A little different than your, you know, mainstream Chinese dumplings, but they're super good. So much flavor and just the texture is great with those. So siu mai, especially shrimp siu mai is amazing. If you go to Hong Kong, you always got to get some cha siu fun. It's like some barbecue pork rice on the streets. That's amazing. And it's so traditional.

The mid-levels over in the Hong Kong island had some of the best international food, and we used to go over there to eat really yummy Indian food. We also had a Bobo Man that was kind of a bubble bread that we would go and find, and I'm telling you it was so good. That was some of my favorite. Anything with mangoes and lychee, there's a lot of good food there.

It's more of a style of eating, but we call it da binglo, which is hot pot. The first time I tried it, I was brand new. First time eating at a family's house. We sit down at the table and there's just raw food everywhere. There's raw shrimp, raw meat, raw vegetables, everything raw. And I'm sitting there praying. I said, please help me eat this food because it looks gross and I don't want to touch it. Soon they opened up the lid to a boiling pot of water and they told me, hey, you take the food and you put it in the boiling water. You cook it and then you eat it. It soon became my favorite type of food to eat is da binglo, the hot pot.

Favorite food, very hard to answer for Hong Kong. There's just so many. I think one of my favorite things I had, it was at the restaurant Tom's Eye, which is a spice noodle shop. It's amazing. The more you eat it, the more you like it. First couple times you have it, probably not going to be your favorite, but it's great. But you can also get like a side of Pei Dan, or preserved eggs, or thousand-year-old egg, whatever you want to call it. They're just like these black eggs, and it's got some green with them, some other little vegetables with it, but it is so good. I would recommend you guys try it at least once, because I tried it once. I was skeptical after I tried it. I got it every single time I went to Tom's Eye, and I went there probably more than I should have, but it was really good. Pei Dan is awesome.

So Hong Kong has a lot of good food in my opinion, and probably my favorite food was something called bolo bao, which is pineapple bread. And it doesn't actually have any pineapple in it, which is funny, but it's made out of sugar and butter, and the pattern on the top of it kind of mimics what a pineapple would look like, which is how it gets its name. But it's super soft and super good, and definitely a treat that I would buy a lot whenever I was on my way home. It was always my go-to food to have.

One of my favorite foods was something called Lai Wong Bao, which is this custard-filled steamed bun, which was really good because it was cheap and tasted good, and you can find them everywhere, so that's really good. Something else that we really like is called something called Cha Siu Fan, and so that's like barbecued pork with rice. So good, and again, it's cheap and you can find it anywhere, and missionaries eat it all the time. It's really good.

While there's so much good food in Hong Kong and it's hard to, you know, just pick one, at least one of my favorites though is the classic char siu fan. Just because it's just so easy to get, it's everywhere and sometimes after a long day and you don't want to cook, you just go to the street, buy a box of char siu fan, you just eat it and it just really really hits the spot.

So my favorite style of meal, hands down, is hot pot, where they just have like a boiling thing of broth on table and you just dunk all your raw edges and raw meat in there to let it cook it. It's just so versatile and there's so many things you can do with it and it's such a fun experience. There's really just so many things you can't, you can't go wrong. It's all so delicious. I love this fried noodle dish called gon cao ah ha, which is just um fried noodles with bean sprouts and beef and there's all these little bakeries on the streets with all these egg tarts and different kinds of breads and those are always a classic. You really, you really just can't go wrong. It's all so good.

My favorite food is baby bok choy. So what you do is you get the baby bok choy, you can even buy it here in the States, and you pull it apart. And the hearts are the best. You put it in water. And then you put oil in a wok. And then you fry it up, you put lots of salt, oh, you fry up garlic in the wok. And then you put lots of it in there and in the wok and then you put salt on it. So kind of getting the wilted lettuce as you're stir frying it. So salt and garlic is all it is. And wait till the it gets a little bit wilty, but still a little bit crisp on the bottom. Again, the hearts are the best and I just use serve it with rice and really healthy for you because it's a really leafy green vegetable. And reminds me of Hong Kong couldn't afford a lot. So we would eat bok choy and get our nutrients in.