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Tiny Green Kitchen, Hong Kong, North Point

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Tiny Green Kitchen, Hong Kong, North Point

One of the places in Hong Kong we visited more than once was this indeed tiny restaurant at the North Point Road end of the Chun Yeung Street Market – not only because it was in a comfortable walking distance from our hotel, the ibis North Point, but it served decent Shanghai cuisine for reasonable prices. The service was very hongkong-ish (as in grumpy), which wasn’t so bad, because the main language spoken was Cantonese anyway. We did manage to order food in English, though, and once it was established we were able to handle chopsticks, nobody stared at uns any longer. The inside walls are plastered with laminated prints of photos of some of the dishes served, and the menu is (mostly) available in English, although I had the…

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Sapporo Ramen, North Point, Hongkong

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Sapporo Ramen, North Point, Hongkong

All we wanted was to grab a quick meal in the evening, not having to search for a restaurant or take the MTR halfway through the megalopolis, so we looked around the venues near to our hotel, the ibis North Point. Enter Sapporo Ramen. (It doesn’t say that on the door, at least not in Latin letters, only in Kanji/Chinese). But the entrance is as unmistakably Japanese as is the menu, with ramen and several set menus combined with fish or tonkatsu. Fortunately, the menus come with an English translation. The small restaurant is a simple no-frills eatery. According to the (many) reviews on OpenRice, the #1 gastro portal for Hong Kong, Sapporo Ramen used to be different (and better) before a change of ownership a few months ago. We…

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Vegetarian Chicken

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Vegetarian Chicken

Oh the joys of living vegetarian! (seen in Hongkong, probably on Lantau island). Print PDF

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Airline Food – YYZ to BRU with Jet Airways

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Airline Food – YYZ to BRU with Jet Airways

The 7 hour trip from Toronto to Brussels started at 6 p.m., so we would have dinner and an early breakfast on the flight. Again, large bottles of liquor were trollied through the cabin, again, tremendous amounts of vodka and whisky disappeared mainly into the plastic goblets of Indian males, and again the food choice was ‘chicken or vegetarian’. We opted for vegetarian to have Indian food, alas there would have been an Indian and ‘international’ chicken dish as we learned later. This was a quinoa salad (left corner) with tiny bits of bell pepper, tasty but rather mild; rice, vegetable curry and dal – very good; a small paratha-style flatbread, mediocre but good with the dal; a small plastic cup of real unflavored yogurt, very good; a rather sour-bitter…

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Airline Food – BRU to YYZ with Jet Airways

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Airline Food – BRU to YYZ with Jet Airways

Frankly, when flying economy with a low-cost carrier, I don’t expect much food-wise. So flying from Brussels to Toronto with Jet Airways, food choices were nothing I worried about . Most online info to be found on their food is related to domestic Indian flights, and usually the verdict is something like: doesn’t look appetizing but great authentic taste. I didn’t expect them to serve Western food, though, and this is the first lesson I’ve learned: If you happen to fly Jet Airways and want an Indian meal, ask for the vegetarian option. Asked for ‘vegetarian or chicken’ (or rather not asked, but kind of being served chicken by a flight attendant who – after looking at the two Europeans in a puddle of Indians, grabbed two chicken menus and…

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Airline Food – DXB-BKK-USM

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Airline Food – DXB-BKK-USM

Emirates from Dubai to Bangkok offered us the all-time classic question: chicken or beef? Appetizer: something along the lines of Nicoise salad – very good taste, good quality olives, decent tuna. Main Dish: either Chicken with Black Bean sauce, Vegetables and Rice; or Beef with BBQ sauce, Potato Wedges and a corn vegetable blend. I had the chicken which tasted like oyster sauce to me instead of black bean – it was good. T. had the beef and said the BBQ sauce tasted like McDonalds or Burger King, but not as sweet. Dessert: A creamy strawberry-and-rhubarb flavord pudding thingy – I had a sniff at the pudding and decided to not try it, because it really smelled artificially flavored to the hilt. I didn’t like the (industrial) smell of the…

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Airline Food – HAM-DXB

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Airline Food – HAM-DXB

Food on the flight from Hamburg to Dubai. Cocktail, sort of (our traditional starter on an Emirates flight) – Campari and tonic. (On a trip to Croatia we tried to order Campari/soda in a small bar in Cres but all they had was tonic, and we actually liked it.) The menu AppetizerMarinated Shrimp – shrimp marinated in cocktail sauce, served on a yoghurt potato sauce Main CourseLamb Medaillons with a Moroccan tagine sauce, flavoured couscous and sautéed green beans; or Roast Chicken topped with a creamy thyme sauce, served with an asparagus risotto and rustic style vegetables; OR Four Cheese Tortellini tossed in a tangy tomato and mascarpone sauce, topped with freshly shaved parmesan cheese and garlic flakes DessertMango and coconut cream – fruity mango coulis topped with cubes of…

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