Huge prawns covered in chiles.
Family style, complete with lazy susan.
Some sort of lobsterish/shrimpish cross-bread fried and powdered with cayenne pepper.
Fish heads, fish heads, roly-poly fish heads...
Gelatin with floaty bits, served as dessert. As many of you know, I don't favour gelatin-based foods.
Some of our HK counterparts
Yes, that is a whole duck head...
I love scallops and these were some of the best I have ever eaten. They were covered with glass noodles and loaded with garlic.
Some sort of chopped up spiny lobster which was then deep fried.
Overall, the food in China was fantastic. Hurricane Bay is located right on the water (obviously) and the waterfront is lined with restaurants serving the finest fish available. We all know seafood is best served fresh and these restaurants all have massive banks of fish tanks in front of them holding a variety of seafood. There were some fish in the tanks that had to weigh 100+ pounds. Unfortunately, I waited until after dinner to shoot pics of them and our meal involved so many courses that by the time we were finished all the tanks had been shuttered.
This shop sold all manner of exotic (to my eyes) food items. At first I thought these smoked ham hocks were some sort of special dried goose...
These poor crabs were wrapped up and sitting in a bin at a street market. I couldn't confirm whether or not they were definitely alive, but the fact that they were so tightly bound led me to believe that they were. PETA would have a field day...
A typical view of the exterior of many buildings in Hong Kong. The city is vertically overbuilt with tall, narrow, nondescript structures many of which seem to have cobbled on additions and upgrades. It seems that all of these A/C units, along with their requisite pipes, ducts and cables, were a total afterthought
the large square blocks are literally called "stinky tofu" and they smell like your body odour after 10 days of backcountry camping. surprisingly, the taste is not that bad. however, during consumption i found myself repulsed by the smell to the point where i couldn't finish my block 'o' stinky tofu.
and you thought grade school lunch was fraught with "mystery meat"...
i think this was some sort of fermented or rotten egg that was then breaded and fried. after the stinky tofu i wasn't really in the mood to experiment...
when you are with a local and he can't even figure out the identity of the squiggly items on the right it is a clear signal to stear just as clear.
delicious tripe and other parts cooked in a fatty juice. another one of those dishes that surprises you with it's pungent aroma.
