Lunch & Dinner

I hope we will soon not be discouraged to lunch together. Here's my lunch for today (finally learnt to use the microwave).


Decided to have something "simple" though not very healthy for dinner...

A Not So Healthy Meal

I was craving for instant noodles last night, just before I went to sleep.

So tonight, I decided to satisfy my taste bud. The cool weather also made me feel like eating something steaming hot.

Upon reaching home, I quickly searched the fridge for ingredients that can be addded to the instant noodles. I managed to find some minced pork, spring onion, eggs and 奶白. Cooked the noodles using my favourite Japanese soup base. Yum yum!


I think I am quite a good cook. Hahaha!

Following the email to discourage staff from the same department from lunching together, I think I should seriously consider bringing lunch to the office. Maybe I should cook more at night or wake up earlier to prepare food. Let's see how things go. :)

香港行之舊式茶樓

我喜欢现代化，所以对旧的东西向来没什么感觉。我不否认，我的喜新厌旧或许是一种偏执。

不过，我却对香港的旧式茶楼颇感兴趣。这一趟到香江，我们尽量找些老旧的餐室用餐，感染一下怀旧的气息。在港的第一餐，我们就到位于饭店不远的美都餐室吃午餐。我们绕了好一会儿才找到地方。


二楼正在装修，所以我们得到三楼去。找了位子，餐室的老板和伙计不太理会我们。无所谓，我们继续研究密密麻麻的食物名称。决定好后，女侍应生走过来把我们点的食物记下。九年后的香港，普通话真是普及多了。这对不会讲广东话的我来说，实在是一种便利。

餐室的怀旧气氛浓厚，感觉非常香港！从窗外望出去，星期六的街道并没有想象中拥挤。

这一刻，时间仿佛静止，停格在六零年代。


玻璃瓶装的可乐，好令人怀念！喝起来格外解渴。


这是餐室的招牌菜——排骨炬饭。四十年来地位屹立不到，的确有它的原因！


忍不住还是点了餐蛋通心粉。平淡无奇，却非常地道。


第二天早上，我们又到一家旧式茶楼喝早茶。


感觉有点像红星，点心都是推出来的。这一次，广东话不及格的我只好闭嘴。YQ 的广东话也不太灵光，最后我们只点了铁三角——虾饺、烧卖、叉烧包，还有叉烧肠粉。


我们坐在茶楼里边看《苹果日报》，边享受这种时光倒流三十年的感觉！

来到香港这样一个现代都市，却又希望感染怀旧气息，这的确有些吊诡。

Time to Detox!

After countless meals of 大魚大肉, I decided to have some home-cooked food for lunch today.

Cooking is therapeutic, cooking a new dish is even more so! I felt great after lunch. It's the most detoxifying meal we have had for a long long time!

Papaya Fish Soup

Now, it's time to continue with my challenge for the weekend - detox my wardrobe! Perhaps time to start planning for dinner too? :p

I LOVE Holidays!

We're at the airport now. As usual, we had breakfast at Toastbox. I realised that this has become a "SOP".

I'm quite disappointed that most of the duty free shops are closed. Can't do much shopping but I guess I will have no lack of chance to do so in the next few days.

Expectation for this trip is very low as we are really ill-prepared - no itinerary has been planned YET. Maybe we can do so on the plane but I think more likely than not, I will be ZZZzzzzing as I only managed to sleep for 2 hours. Had to do last minute packing for the first time.

It feels good to be on leave, though this is probably not a very good time to do so. We had to do a conference call till 7.30 pm last night so I guess there will be tonnes of work waiting for me...

Ok, shall look on the bright side. I must treasure this 5 days and make the fullest use of time!