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Food has always been a huge part of while I love to travel. Read all my food-related posts here and find your next favorite bowl of noodles or juiciest cut of steak.
Searching for local food in Hong Kong as a non-Chinese speaker is overwhelming. The vast majority of online reviews being written on Anglophonic platforms like Yelp (which has been described kindly as "on death's doorstep") and Google Reviews (mostly written for tourists, by tourists) place spotlight on restaurants that don’t serve local food. That being said, there's a vast number of local spots …
Hong Kong Neighborhood Spotlight: Sai Ying Pun Food – the Local EditionRead More
I want to talk about the must-try foods in Hong Kong, mostly because food is one of the few things that I am thinking about nonstop, and Hong Kong (and Asian food in general) is usually full of glorious carbohydrates, which, if you know me by now, is my favorite food group. I low-key wish they'd bring back this carb-tastic Food Pyramid, instead of the decidedly fruit-and-vegetable …
25 Must-Try Foods in Hong Kong For the Ultimate Local Eating ExperienceRead More
I plan an entire visit to a place around its food more often than I care to admit. This was especially true before I became Instagram trash (hey, click that Follow if you haven’t!), when the only photos I snapped were on my Samsung 5, and consisted nearly entirely of things like handheld jianbing or egg waffles stuffed with ice cream. Since my nearly-complete transformation into Instagram …
Have Americans destroyed Italian cuisine? Do the Italians hate us for it? Do I even know what Italian food is? Would bringing an Italian to Little Italy in Boston be carnage? My first experience with Italian food came in the form of boxed Barilla spaghetti. My dad meticulously listed grocery items on yellow Post-it notes and carefully attached them to our fridge door. One of them is still …
Do Italians like American Italian Food? We Eat in Little Italy in Boston to Find OutRead More
It takes some real courage to eat local in Hong Kong. It really does. In most restaurants around the world, there’s a modicum of behaviour that you generally come to expect. Someone will greet you. You get to sit with the people you came with. There are napkins somewhere. Rarely, in other parts of the world, do we accept being screamed at, your order being shouted across the restaurant, plates …
Hong Kong Neighborhood Spotlight: Best Local Food in Sheung WanRead More
Growing up, it was about breakfast. My father shook the top of my duvet until I cracked my eyes open - or, if he was feeling funny that morning, would gently place his index finger horizontally across my nostrils, giggling to himself as my eyelids flew open, satisfied that I was sufficiently awake. One day it might be a reheated frozen muffin - a 700- calorie monstrosity from a megapack …
There’s Virtue in Bland Food – Or, How I Found Home in Hong Kong Macaroni SoupRead More
The first night I moved to Hong Kong, I ordered delivery Korean fried chicken and ate it in my room. I cowered inside the bedroom of my serviced apartment, brought a steaming bag of food to the bedroom, lifted the lid of my spicy Korean fried chicken, and ate my first meal of Hong Kong out of cardboard boxes sitting in my bed. That’s right. I went through the effort of creating an account on …
