Hong Kong 2011 (2)

There's quite a bit of pictures again for this post about Hong Kong. Mostly because, like I mentioned earlier, there's just too much good food to be consumed.

Weekend dim sum

Hidemi Sugino's B-Caraibe

This is my first attempt at using a recipe from Hidemi Sugino's book, Le Goût Authentique Retrouvé.

 Hidemi Sugino's B-Caraibe

Hong Kong 2011 (1)

A side note about Japan - it was a shock to hear about the disasters that Japan is currently facing now, what with the earthquake, the tsunami and the nuclear plant explosions. It's bad enough to experience one calamity, but to be hit with a myriad of calamities all at once, man, I can't imagine how it is to be in Japan right now. I just hope that Japan can pull strong and recover from all these, and it certainly is heartwarming to hear about such stories, in view of all the depressing news about the death tolls and potential radiation harm the Japanese might be looking at. I've always want to travel to Japan and I hope to do so some time in the future...

I love traveling and if money wasn't an issue, I'd probably be flying around the globe as frequently as I could. Or perhaps, I would perhaps land a dream job of being a travel writer/photographer and be paid to do what I love - to travel and go crazy snapping photos.

I was in Hong Kong last month for a four days vacation. Now, I've been to Hong Kong countless of times before. Whenever I'm in Hong Kong, it's always a shopping vacation, where I'll spend all my time focused primarily on shopping and shopping alone. In Singapore, the Visit Hong Kong ad always recites that in Hong Kong, it's all about "买东西, 吃东西, 买东西, 吃东西" (read: buy stuff, eat stuff), but I guess I left out the eating part of the equation. However, on this trip, surprisingly, it was primarily a eating trip! Shopping was minimal and I bought considerably less stuff than what I normally do on a shopping trip. I ate and ate and ate, and wailed over how much food I had missed out on all those past trips I had made without eating the good stuff.

Hong Kong 2011

P.S Cafe (Dempsey)

Following my last post on dinner at P.S Cafe (Palais), I recently had a brunch date with my girlfriend at P.S Cafe (Dempsey). It was my second visit to the Dempsey outlet, my very first visit to a P.S Cafe was a few years back at P.S Cafe (Dempsey).

P.S Cafe (Dempsey)

Bourke Street Bakery's Passion Fruit Tarts

I'm trying to clear out some of the freezer goodies and there's still a huge 1L tub of passion fruit puree in there. I've only used it in the coconut mango passion fruit macarons here and mango passion fruit verrines here. I thought that I should do something that let the passion fruit flavour shine on its own. So here's my take on the Bourke Street Bakery's Passion Fruit Meringue Tarts.

Bourke Street Bakery's Passion Fruit Tarts (sans meringue)