HK snacks

Beween all the shopping and sight seeing, we did a lot of snacking in HK.
How could you not?
There's delicious snacks ranging from the low end to the high end.
Let me show you what we ate and why we came home 3 kgs heavier in 1 week.

I went GAGA when i saw this store.... macaroons!!! OMG!! you can't get macaroons back in Perth so i had had HAD to have one or two :D. i bought a pistachio/chocolate macaroon and hubby bought a dark chocolate macaroon. They weren't cheap, costing about $8aud for 2, but heck when you're on holidays you splurge! [a bit that is]. Mine was ok, but hubby loved his dark chocolate one, very smooth and delicious.. mmm can't wait to have another one!

There's a new trend in drinks in HK, naturally all the trendy drinks come from Japan. This was a pineapple flavour juice/cordial drink that you have to shake. The drink actually comes out in jelly form, very loose watery jelly. Weird. Its ok but not my favourite.

After a hardcore day of shopping and abusing the CC we sat down in a food court for a drink and a snack. We saw the table next to us order this, so we had to do the same :D..hehehe.. We ordered a pork, chinese cabbage & chive gow zhi / wo tie /gyoza dumplings. There were 4 different dipping sauces to go with this, but i couldn't read the chinese so i chose any random one. The bowl at the back was a hot and spicy soup, which was also very yummy - love love love hot and spicy soup [especially when some one else makes it!]
This lovely snack combo came to a very reasonable price of $5aud. If only we could get it this cheap back in Perth... sighs....

Now not all snacks are created equal, we had a few dodgy tasteless snacks... unfortunately they occurred in HK Disneyland. In the plastic bag above was suppose to be crispy fried dough. Sounded interesting enough, looked like it had flavour ..so why not? The flavour was weird, very fake, very chemically (is there such a word?) just over processed and gross. We just chucked it out. Now the corn in the yellow plastic bag at the back was bland, was suppose to be buttered corn. It had no salt, no butter, NOTHING!! FAIL! i ate it anyway, was very hungry...

Now we're getting to the more exotic stuff, after a VERY long day of sight seeing and shopping this was our midnight snack.. [yes!! the shops are still open at midnight]
There's nothing better then food on a stick, deep fried in oil and smothered in an assortment of sauces. This is where my mum warns me... "don't be greedy, dont eat weird random stuff " but i completely ignored her warnings... where's the fun in avoiding all the good stuff?!!

Below is the snack bar, offering all sorts of wonderful offal and weird asian snacks in lots of different ways. Right in the middle of the pic below is "Stinky Tofu", we've seen this on TV before [Bourdain & Bizarre Foods] but we were told by our close friend it was actually quite delicious. So we had to try. The first thing you notice is the smell... you can smell the stinky tofu from about 100 meters away... [ i actually thought it was the rubbish bins in the alley way - but apparently not]. Stinky tofu is actually tofu that has gone off, then they deep fry it, serve it in a brown paper bag and slather it with sour chilli sauce. The smell is hard to take at first, it has a very sour rotten smell, but once you get use to the funky taste/smell, it's actually not too bad, i can understand why it has become a local favourite.

The amazing variety of food on a stick, we didn't get to try everything - our stomachs just didn't have the room. Would definitely have to come back to HK and try all the others.

Minute maid is an american brand which we don't have here in Australia. My hubby just loves anything aloe vera grape flavour so he was sold on the green bottle. I was more curious about the grape fanta jelly drink, lots of the young local people were buying this from the 7eleven stores and i just followed the crowd. It was thick and jelly like, just like the pineapple juice thing from before, but this was fizzy too which was unusual.

We saw lots of people eating noodles in plastic bags and we thought it was rather odd. Then we found the stall that was selling this stuff and thought we should give it a try, it was rather tricky because we didn't know how to order and EVERYTHNG was in chinese. So brave me pointed to a noodle bag that looked pretty innocent and pointed to the octopus picture. They added the octopus to the bag of noodles, along with chilli sauce, soy sauce and some other stuff [they were super fast] mixed it all up with a chop stick and viola - your noodles are ready! Ready to eat straight from the plastic bag, fast food chinese style. It was a tasty, spicy snack and a lot better then i expected it to be, a bargain at only 80c :D.

Deep fried fishballs basted in a sweet spicy sauce and served on a stick from our favourite street snack bar.

Can't wait to go back to HK!!