A Little Advice From our Old Friend Albert Einstein

"If A is success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut."
I love this quote, I found it in the student residence courtyard of City University of Hong Kong.

Saturday, March 13, 2010

Have you tried stinky tofu?

Well actually I haven't tried stinky tofu, but apparently it doesn't taste like it smells. So would you like to know what I have had. Well let me tell you.

  • Chicken feet
    • Fried or stewed
    • With bones or without
  • Chicken testicles 
    • Tasteless and granulated in texture
  • Fresh durian fruit icecream- 
    • Smells like the server just defecated near you, but tastes amazing!
    • Unfortunately the burps of this food taste like it smells.
  • Spleen of a snake-
    • So my friend bit the head off of a snake at a snake soup restaurant, and after he bit the head off I drank the bile from the spleen... supposed to be good for you!
  •   Ox tongue- 
    • Like a tongue might taste.
    • Thinly sliced and grilled at a Korean BBQ restaurant
  • Sushi and Sashami
    • Lots and lots of it, some times twice a day!
    • Cheap and delicious!
  • Bubble Tea
    • One of my addictions.
  • MSG
    • This miserable food additive is almost impossible to avoid.
  • Delicious deserts
    • Bowls of icecream with tapioca balls and fresh fruit, red bean, custards, semi-solid tofu.
This is only a 'taste' of all the strange and delicious things I have tried, but don't be jealous. Though the food is inexpensive and tons styles and dishes to choose from every where you go, Asheville is much better food. The healthiest thing to eat here is sushi and even that gets old. Fresh, nourishing, wholesome food is no where to be found. Apparently organic restaurants serve good food here but cost over $100.  

1 comment:

  1. I can only agree part of it hehe. Coming from the 'healthiest state' its hard for you I know. The food here may not be prepared in a healthy way but there certainly have fresh food (from the wet market) to be found which is not as hard as you thought.

    Perhaps, I could not argue with you about the quality of food hehe. I do have an arguement that you may like to think about - HK has the 2nd best life expectancy in the world (men over 75, women over 80). If the food people here eat are not healthy, how could you explain that? ;-)

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