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Red Ant Dinner

After work today I met up with Ada for dinner in Causeway Bay. She was nice enough to spend some time with me so I'm not so bored and lost shopping for more household items. We went to a restaurant called something like "Red Ant" (紅螞蟻). It was out behind some boutique shops in Causeway Bay. The restaurant really wasn't good. The base for both of our dishes (one noodle and one rice) tasted so bad. We toured Causeway Bay for a bit and then headed to a Japanese $10 (basically a dollar store). Ada helped me pick out a towel hanger (one that I can just stick to the wall or my door), a container for my showering things, and an air freshner for my room.

To erase the memory from the substandard dinner we went in search of a nice dessert place. We ended up in a place just behind Sogo that always has a lineup. The place is called "Fai Kee" (發記甜品) and apparently there might be a famous dessert place in China with the same name. It was a little strange when we were seated, we got put at a table with another couple but to save space this is the typical Chinese style. It was a good thing though because the couple were travellers from Singapore. I heard them speaking English and struck up a conversation with them. We got into a great conversation about the different foods and the cultures. The guy had been to Hong Kong before and was taking his girl friend around to different places to eat. He really knew his places to eat. The restaurant had some sort of magazine or newspaper article written about them and it was posted up. The article talked about them having a famous Singapore dessert, which it just happens that my new found friends from Singapore have never seen before. I also learned that Singapore fried noodles don't exist there as well. I am really getting the feeling that I can't trust the media in Hong Kong. So much marketing and people here can lie without batting an eye lid. Ada's boy friend had joined us for dessert and we found out that all three of us were teachers. The conversations continued for a while but the people from the dessert restaurant really wanted us out so we exchanged e-mails, paid the bill and went our separate ways.

posted by Tempest7 @ 11:00