Yup that’s right,Amanda and I are about to head back to the motherland! Ok,so we’re both ABCs (American Born Chinese) so it’s not reeeaaally the motherland…but close enough. In the next three weeks,we’ll be blitzing through Hong Kong,Shanghai,Beijing and a handful of cities in between. Hopefully we’ll get a good sampling of the local cuisine and you can be pretty darn sure that we’ll have pictures of whatever munchies we get our paws on. Stay tuned!
For our Asia trip,our first destination was Hong Kong. We stayed with our good friend Connie who took us to all the great local food spots and we are forever in her debt! What was interesting in Hong Kong was the abundance of Japanese restaurants. People in Hong Kong are very health-conscious so Japanese cuisine including fresh sushi,ramen,and takoyaki is very popular.
These are the highlights of our Hong Kong trip:
Toi Hokkaido,japanese rice pizza
Hong Kong Street Food,everything from skewers to baozi
Aberdeen Marina Club,cantonese dim sum
Hong Kong Desserts:Yee Shun Milk Company,Honeymoon Dessert
Rossio,Italian &Japanese buffet at the MGM Grand in Macau
Tonkichi,japanese tonkatsu
The second stop on our trip was Shanghai. Amanda and I were completely on our own for this leg of the trip so we relied a little more heavily on travel guides and food sites to find the good eats here. Shanghai is all about the xiao long bao and seafood and we definitely made sure we got a fair share of both while we were here.
- Paul
- Element Fresh
- Crystal Jade
- Din Tai Fung
So it seems that we’ve fallen a little behind on posts these days. We actually haven’t been cooking or getting around to new places but we still have a stash of posts from China and a handful of restaurants that we’ve been meaning to throw on here. We’ve been sidetracked a little bit from moving apartments,dragon boating,and StarCraft 2…but never fear! We are back! Well…for now anyway 
There are a handful of places in China that Amanda and I sped through between Shanghai and Beijing. Instead of writing a post about each place,I thought I’d just give a slightly longer post that encapsulates the regional cuisines of Suzhou,Xian,and Huangshan.
It’s slightly embarrassing…but it’s almost been a year since Amanda and I went on our trek through China and we still have yet to finish up the last leg of our trip. And with our upcoming trip to Hawaii looming,it’s high time we finished up this little series. When I think of Beijing cuisine,the first thing that comes to mind is Peking duck. I mean,it IS a dish named after the city. But there’s much more to food in Beijing than delicious,crispy skinned duck. Here’s what we managed to sample while we were there.
