YO NYC: ASIA SPECIAL Part 1

R.sin — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 03:23:55 +0000

It’s a little late but I’ve been busy with school and what not, but this past summer I spent about a month in a half in Hong Kong, Thailand and Singapore. It was wicked hot, and I had loads of fun. Aside from the usual touristy attractions, I was more excited to eat my way through the places I visited than actually care about whatever else the country had to offer. Food to me is the best part of other cultures. First I was in Hong Kong for a little less than a week, and to say the least that place has the swampiest and mucky weather ever during certain parts of the summer. But I still love it. Let’s just start with the most traditional Hong Kong food, the typical HK style cafés with the ABCD meals on a tiny breakfast menu.

I personally got the ramen with satay beef and a fried egg on top. Loaded with my favorite substance of monosodium glutamate, it was satisfying and it just made my morning happy. How could you not follow this up with HK’s signature morning beverage? It may look nothing special but the Hong Kong iced milk tea is simply divine. There is no possible way I have drank that beverage in NYC, the distinctiveness of that drink is something no one can get anywhere else.

A yet I shall show another Hong Kong signature morning pastry that started here first; the pineapple butter bun. Similar to its younger sibling the pineapple bun, this revamped pineapple butter bun seriously bullies its younger sibling. It is basically a fresh hot pineapple bun cut in half, and a big slab of butter is just sandwiched between, and it just slowly melts and just makes the pineapple bun that much more unhealthy. But hey the more unhealthy the food, the more delicious it’s probably going to be.

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YO NYC: ASIA SPECIAL Part 1