Food and Markets in HK

you can buy ANYTHING in HK. not being much of a clothes shopper, my favorite places to visit are some of the veggie stands and wet markets. some people are not fas, all the meat/flesh stuff grosses them out but i find them endlessly fascinating.

cooked meat


raw meat


giant cucumber thing (apparently you tell them how much you want and they hack it off for you. it looked like a torpedo!)


fresh tofu



yum?

H selects some zucchini


ultra fresh fruits and veggies:





whole pigs hanging in the doorway before getting cut up:


and after:


entrails (as tony calls them)


lap cheong (chinese sausage)


chicken feet


scenes from Sai Ying Pun Market






that's one massive cuttlefish!

Day and Night in HK

hong kong always allows me to indulge my camera trigger finger. i really love the look of this city. a lot of the buildings are old and very cool looking.


view from the top of center street:





dusk on the Hk streets:



the bright neon at night:





a clear day by the harbor:



an inside park at times square in causeway bay:


deer fetus, anyone?


more neon. i looooove the way it glows!




H has a deep thought on the tram:




night in kowloon from across the bay:



this is actually a self portrait. look closely and squint really hard. on second thought, don't.


flowers from the opening of the newly remodeled Mango in IFC:


nite nite HK!

Birthday trip to HK! Here comes the flood!

Birthday trip 2008!! for the dirty 30 birthday, i decided to jet out to hong kong for a few days to see the H and the boy. it was a cheap flight so the flight times were crap. the night i got in, it was too late to really do anything and i had to get one of the earliest flights out too. so although it was 5 days, i really only had 3.

thought i was going to die on the flight over as the plane plumetted for a few seconds. i kid you not, EVERYONE on the flight screamed (including the flight attendants). the woman in front of me lost her grip on her cup of water and it came down all over us in the row behind her. i thought i was going to barf on the flight. i found out later that it was a record breaking storm.

here are the stats in the newspaper regarding the huge storm:


the view of the rain from the H's window. this is a decent hour in the morning.


what to else to do on a rainy day but shrink your pores with some rubbery gunk that makes you look like a panda?


this is the sidewalk outside the H's place. this is NOT construction.


and let the flooding begin! as the H and i headed out for some breaky, we took a look at the mass destruction the rain caused. she said she'd never seen it like this before.








businesses were totally screwed. the dry foods places had all their merchandise soaked through. it looked like a riot had blown through town.


and since all this stuff is super exy, the people decide they aren't going to throw it away. they'll just set it out on the sidewalk to dry again so it can be repackaged and sold. yum! the city was super stinky once the rain let up!!