Found a new breakfast place. Hate hate hate hate hate breakfast cereal so I’m usually only able to force musili down my throat about 3 or 4 days a week, which leads to me buying breakfast a lot of the time. Generally I’m hitting Pret a Manger way hard as they’ll give you a coffee (okay coffee by HK standards, which means most big city Aussies would look like they’d just stepped in something & that something squished between their toes if they drank it, but I think I smoked my tastebuds when I was younger so it’s okay for me) & a roll with egg & roast tomato or ham & cheese for $30 Hong Kong dollars! Bargain! So that’s been great, but that has become slightly old after a while. Got to work this morning & thought to myself, ‘Self. If I have musili again today I’m going to try to drown myself in the bowl. Screw. That. Peasant Food.’ Thinking thinking thinking, couldn’t think of a single thing to eat that wasn’t either Pret or Congee. HMMMMMM, conundrum. Then on the way to dropping a suit off at the cleaners I noticed a place I’d never been in before. The word Sandwiches loomed brightly in my field of vision. Mmmmm, white man food. Nom nom nom.
“Do you guys have sandwiches?” (I ask excellent questions)
“Aah, yes.” Points to afore-mentioned sandwich sign
“Haaaam sandwiches?”
“Yes of course”
*little squeal* “Ahem. Okay, ham & cheeeeese sanswiches?”
“No problem. Toasted?”
“Oh god yes.”
“$22 please”
“OMG that’s awesome.”
“What?”
“Nothing. Here’s $30.”
Excitedly I jumped front one foot to the other waiting for my toasted ham & cheese sandwich & creeped out the other patrons, grabbed the ridiculously large paper bag the lady handed me & raced back upstairs to devour my catch. Dive into the bag, tear open the alfoil(?) & OOOh yes I...wait, wtf? Why is there salad on my toasted sandwich? And why is it crying? There was capsicum, cucumber, lettuce, tomato, the works on this poor enflamed toasty. It was the saddest, wiltiest salad in Hong Kong as it had just had its ass cooked to hell. Sigh. Chinese-Anglo fusion weirdness strikes again...
Oh well, bugger it. It wasn’t Bolognese on rice or soup noodle KFC, so I was on a win there. I chowed down on this thing in a big way & it was actually really tasty. But it was just like everything else ‘Western’ in Hong Kong. It was just a bit....different.
dude, KFC on rice (with the potatoes and mash) is one of the best things in the world. What's wrong with fusion cuisine? Don't hate, create.
ReplyDeleteHaha! Thank you Kylie Kwong. Look, fusion food on its place is awesome. It's just those times when you order X & you don't even get Y, you get a Chinese character covered in mayonaisse on egg noodles. Makes me very confusion.
ReplyDeleteclearly this is a case of 'serve the non-cantonese speaking gwai lo any old hat, he's not going to know any better'. suggest memorising the cantonese names of key foodstuffs? come on, if you can say huervos con jamon with the proper accent, suan la do hua isn't going to be too much of a stretch.
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