Dog

So as we are in the dead of Winter which means it is Dog season. According to the Chinese eating dog will help you stay warm during the winter cold. So along with the other the other drying carcasses dog is hanging in front of many Chinese restaurants. I talked to one Chinese waitress who thought it was curious that foreigners wanted to take pictures of the hanging dog. I am skipping the dog this year. The temperature has not dipped below 50 F.

Local Chinese Restaurant

Just a pic of one restaurant up the block from the new secondary school. I pass by this daily. It is one of at least four similar restaurants in that block. They all look about the same and every block has 3 to 5 of them. The Chinese characters (in red) of this one say they sell Rice, Dumplings, Noodles, (no kidding, that is a surprise), they make most items with lots of cheap hand labor. Many people grab a chair and sit on the sidewalk to eat.

Cambodian Food

Desert for Nicks's Birthday

After Diner Cheese

Breakfast fruit bowl

Fish and Chips

Nick cleaned his plate

We ate well while in Cambodia. I did not realize the French influence. It is very strong in Cambodia and today that translates into great boutique hotels and restaurants run by Frenchmen. The great part is you can try and eat anything because the prices are so reasonable. So Sev "price is no object!" Yahoo. Our group had French Canadians so we ate some Khmer but more French and once Thai. This is just a sampling of some things we ate or saw eaten. We were quite amazed at the bus stop where along with fresh cut mango's and pineapples you could buy a little bag of crickets or locus as a snack and people where buying them. Bev just said to me "it was like popcorn for them" I think they had been cooked.

SoHo Hong Kong

Sign in the Middle of SoHo district in Hong Kong

Tim's chosen Lunch Spot, gotta love Italian food!

The Lunch Group minus the celebrity.

Bev likes these plates

Chinese restaurant

Get your lantern and door good luck decorations before Chinese New Year in a couple of weeks!

These are all restaurants down the block that Fat Angelo's was on.

The Cafe De Paris looked very good, we will have to go back.

Tim, Bev and two other couples that are good friends traveled to the SoHo district of Hong Kong to have a great lunch and celebrate Tim's birthday this past Saturday. This is some information about the SoHo district. The restaurant and food choices down the two streets we walked were plentiful and fun. We ate at Fat Anthonys, pretty good Italian food.

This will probably bring back memories for Rob and be mouth watering for Sev. Many great choices to eat and not enough time.

Soho - which stands for "South of Hollywood Road" - is evolving rapidly, even by Hong Kong's standards. The area, perched on a hill above the Central business district, was once home to Hong Kong's traditional artisans, who made and sold everything from ceramic tableware to soy sauce.

It largely remained that way until the construction in 1993 of the world's longest outdoor escalator - which allowed the city's yuppies literally to "escalate" after work to hip bars and eateries set up by savvy entrepreneurs.

Today, Soho is a mixed area, with cheap Chinese street food and French bistros, elderly ladies selling oranges on fruit crates and chic art galleries.