My husband is taking a nap now, even though it’s 7:30 pm – our internal clocks are just totally screwed up! Anyways, I’m resisting the urge to sleep too, so you guys get to read a post about my Hong Kong adventures 
We got to the City last night after about 30 hours of traveling. It was tough, but we really wanted to stay up for a few more hours (it was probably around 7:30 pm when we finally got to our hotel) to give us a fighting chance at getting on Hong Kong time as fast as possible. Speaking of our hotel, it’s so cute! We even have a kitchen in our room!!! Ok, I don’t plan on cooking here, but still – it’s cool 
And we got complementary waters and juice + a box of cookies. They know the way to my heart
And we were off!
After walking around for a while, we finally stumbled upon a cute little restaurant. It was packed, looked clean and modern and pretty cheap. I have no idea what it was called. Here is my husband outside of it.
We were pleasantly surprised that the waiters spoke English and most of the items on the menu had English translations. Actually the thing that caught my eye was a dish that was described all in Chinese. I asked the guy what it was and he pointed to another place on the menu where it said it was fried rice balls. I was hoping it was a noodle dish (it looked like noodles on the picture!) but I didn’t have a plan B so I ordered it anyway. That and some chicken wings (2 apps total).
I was pleasantly surprised when the dish arrived – it was in fact a noodle dish (maybe rice noodles?) and it was absolutely amazing!!! Definitely the star of the meal. It was the first thing I tasted in HK and I was in heaven.
I ate most of this (my husband helped me out with it ) I could eat about 10 more plates of this stuff! So good!! Minutes later arrived the wings. I had one of them but didn’t really like them. I figured I’d save room for dessert (you know that was coming! 
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Oh and I had to try my husband’s sliced pork curry dish with some rice (it came in a fancy cast iron pot and was one of the most expensive dishes at a whopping 57 HKD ~ $7.35 USD)…
Pretty yummy! Oh the whole meal was less than $13 USD. Amazing!
Then we were off to scout the bakery scene. There were a few that looked good before we found a dinner spot but most of them were closed by the time we got out (~10:30). And then I saw some ice cream and just couldn’t refuse it. Don’t judge – I travelled for 30 hours and needed a little American deliciousness. It was smooth and creamy. It was perfect. I won’t buy anything American again until we come back home, though. I’m in Asia, and I definitely want to take advantage of it!
Fast forward to today… I woke up and made yummy jasmine tea in our kitchen and had 2 cookies from our gift box (the second one was the same as the first). The cookie looks like nothing exciting but it was absolutely amazing. I think I may have to get a box of these to bring home. I never thought I’d actually crave a non-chocolate dessert. These were awesome. Can’t wait to try the other kinds tomorrow
After planning out our day (very roughly!!) and finding a highly recommended breakfast place in our neighborhood, we got ready and hit the roads. First stop – breakfast (2nd breakfast for me) at Tao Heung Super 88. It was “hidden” on a 6th floor of a mall (there are a million malls here, all completely different and super impressive in their own way!). If we didn’t know about it, I never would have thought to take an elevator up there to find this gem. We were greeted by a hostess in English (yay!) and again the menu mostly had English translations. We decided to order from the dim sum section (not traditional way with carts rolling around – we actually ordered a la carte, which was cool because we knew what we were going to eat). Since I wasn’t very hungry, I suggested ordering only 4 small dishes and only tried them. My husband polished off the rest and said he was stuffed! Again our whole meal was under $13 USD!
First up, the best thing we tried – steamed shrimp dumplings. I had 2 of these babies. They just melted in your mouth. Best.dumplings.ever!
Then the bbq pork buns. Also very delicious! I had 1.
Next came out the pancake stuffed with shredded taro. It had lots of other veggies in it too – corn, peas, scallions, other unrecognizable yummy veggies. I had about 1/4 of this large pancake.
Lastly came out the pork spare ribs in black bean sauce. Not at all what either one of us expected. There were bones in the thing and the texture was a bit funky. We expected a thick black sauce but instead it was mostly in an oily sauce with a few black beans thrown in. They tasted delicious but I wasn’t hungry so I only had 2 little bites.
Oh and I had to take picture of the waiter with a huge stack of dim sum dishes. They thought it was hilarious that I snapped that photo!
Tomorrow we’re going to go to a traditional dim sum place that’s been highly recommended. I can’t wait! I seriously think I can eat dim sum every day. The Chinese got it right!
All right, so then we walked around for hours. I somehow hurt my hip and it’s killing me! I hope this doesn’t prevent me from doing stuff on this trip. By the end of the day I was in serious pain 
I did finally found a cool bakery, Maxim’s cakes (a huge chain here) when I got hungry and got a chocolate roll. It was huge, but pretty fluffy and I didn’t feel like I was stuffing my face at all.
And then around 3 pm we got hungry and found ourselves in Soho (South of Hollywood Rd) known for great restaurants. What we didn’t realize is that none of these restaurants are Chinese!! I really didn’t want any Italian or American food but we had no choice. We were both starving so we settled on Staunton’s Bar & Cafe, which was actually in our traveling book with recommendations to get drinks there. Since I wasn’t really craving their food, I decided to go the healthy route (why waste calories on something that I don’t truly want?!). I got a grilled salmon nicoise salad. It was small but actually pretty delicious
It had grilled salmon, kalamata olives, green beans, tomato slices and new potatoes over mixed greens. I ate the whole thing except for the potatoes. I don’t like cold potatoes.
And then a few hours later, when we got to the hotel, I was pretty hungry again so I had a lemon bar larabar. Have you tried this kind before? I loved it!
Ok, this was longer than I meant it to be. There is just so much stuff to talk about! I leave you with a funny sign outside of one of the coffee shops we stopped by today. Pretty funny stuff, huh? 
And now I want one of these
