Hong Kong Day 3: Dim Sum

Evidently food may be a common focus for me! I started the day meeting a dozen couchsurfers at their weekly Sunday dim sum lunch. Embarrassingly, I only just learned that dim sum refers to a wide variety of small plates of food (a local compared it to tapas.) I tried almost everything that came out and had the grandest time with all the different flavors. Everything was great except for the chicken feet fried with peanuts. I don't think tendons are my style :)

I believe some of the dishes were:
Har Gow: shrimp in rice flour casing
Siu Mai: minced pork and shrimp parcels topped with crab roe
Lohr Bahk Goh: mashed turnip pan fried with chives, dried shrimp and Chinese salami
Chung Fun: rolls of rice pastry filled with pork and smothered in soy
Lai Wong Bau: steamed buns with egg custard; another with BBQ pork
Chicken feet with peanuts!

Then part of the group joined me on a mad dash through crazy markets for coffee before taking the Star Ferry to Lamma Island. We only had an hour there so we stuffed ourselves (surprise!) with extremely fresh seafood: scallops with rice noodles and garlic, razor clams, calamari and fried rice with a bottle of Chilean Pinot. Then back on the ferry in time to see the famous hong kong light show and meet friends at a pub. We ended the night eating hot pot rice with beef and egg.

Today I am off to explore Lantau island before headed to Bangkok this evening!