One of the things I love most about traveling is eating, especially after a long day of walking. Since good things come in twos, here are my two new favorite food discoveries on my recent trip to Hong Kong.
1. Crispy pork belly dim sum
Being from the South, I'm naturally inclined to like pork but there's no pork quite like Cantonese fried pork belly. It has the richness of bacon combined with the meaty tenderness of a pork chop finished with a layer of crispy crackling. When dipped in spicy mustard, these cubes of fried heaven dissolve away in your mouth while snapping awake your taste buds all at the same time. I can't believe I've been in China for so long and never discovered these until just last week.
My heart probably won't be happy about this new food find but my stomach will be.
2. Strawberry daiquiris at Feather Boa
Once a hidden gem, this small, violently sky blue, bohemian-chic bar has been outed like a Republican senator in an airport bathroom. While it still retains it's unassuming facade with only a small placard saying "Private Members Only," on any given weekend night, this place is packed with tourists, douchey expats, and douchey expat tourists.
Despite it being effectively Hong Kong's worst kept secret, FB still tries to maintain it's members only image by asking for a "Membership Card" before they fill your order, an inane practice since if you don't have a FB Membership Card, any form of ID will do: Georgia driver's license? OK! Diner's Club card. Um... OK! Basically, if you have the money to buy their drinks, you're a member of the club. The only thing more obnoxious than a members only club is the pretension of being a members only club.
The people combined with the bar's fake air of exclusivity and very real air of self satisfaction would make this place an instant write off it it weren't for the fact that they serve perhaps the most delicious strawberry daiquiris in all of Hong Kong...nay, dare I say it? The world.
The lighting in this photo is pretty bad. I'm fairly certain that the lights at FB were purposefully kept just above a low flicker probably to make the douchey clientele look more attractive to one another. Each pomello sized glass is dipped lavishly with cocoa powder and filled with a frothy smoothie of fresh strawberries and rum. Each mouthful was like tasting spring tinged with chocolate kisses. It was absolutely delicious.
Jamie and I gleefully lapped up the cocoa powder at the edges of our glasses like children who broke into the jam jar until our mouths were covered with chocolate. When I was in elementary school, I once read a book called The Search for Delicious where a boy sets off to find what epitomizes delicious is. At the end, the boy discovered delicious to be "a drink of cold water on a hot day." I'm fairly certain he came to this conclusion because he'd never had FB's strawberry daiquiris.
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