Monday, August 13, 2007

uit eten in HK / eating out in HK

HK heeft ontzettend veel restaurantjes, veel meer dan Sydney en zeker meer dan Amsterdam. Dit komt omdat de mensen allemaal kleine huisjes hebben en als ze met vrienden willen zijn er alijd gegeten moet worden.

Restaurants heb je natuurlijk in alle soorten en maten en in Tai Po, de dichst bij zijnde grote wijk heb je heel veel Chinese restaurants.

Nu is dat natuurlijk niet zo gek want we zitten hier in China. Wij gingen vanavond uit eten want we moesten naar Tai Po om de stofzuiger te ruilen. We liepen een restaurant binnen dat op de buitenkant 2 fotootjes van gerechten had staan, wij hadden dus goede hoop dat er een kaart met plaatjes of een engelse kaart zo zijn. Helaas niet dus, maar niet getreurd mensen zat om ons heen dus met de blik op de andere tafeltjes gericht en stiekem wijzend op wat ons lekker leek kwamen we een heel eind.

Tot bleek dat het tafeltje waar ik naar zat te wijzen bevolkt werd door een dame die uitermate goed engels sprak. Er onstond een discussie tussen de dame en de serveerster en 10 minuten later kwam er van alles op tafel. Heerlijke rund, eend en varkens vlees en nasi. Ze wou ook nog warme gerookte paling met rijst bestellen maarom een onduidelijke reden had ze dat niet gedaan.

Zo zie je maar je kunt voor 22,5 euro met z'n vijfen uit eten zonder ook maar te hoeven bestellen. (ik hoop dat ze ons herkennen als we weer komen)





HK has a lot of restaurants, more than Sydney and much more than Amsterdam. The reasons for this are that HK people love food, whenever they meet there is food, and their houses are very small, so if they want to meet they go to a restaurant for a good meal and a good conversation. Yes HK restaurants are loud, fun but loud.

There are different kind of restaurants, big ones, small ones, western and chinese ones. Tai Po, the nearest big suburb has a lot of Chinese ones, which makes sense as most people there are chinese, and not a lot of tourists come to Tai Po.

Tonight we had to go to Tai Po to change the vacuum cleaner and we decided to eat out. We entered a restuarant with two pictures of dishes in the window to find out there were no picture in the menu and they didn't have an English one either.

Not to worry, there were a lot of people in the restaurant with plenty of food on the tables. With our eyes looking around we picked our food. That was untill the lady at one of the table we were pointing at started a discussion with the waitress. It turned out she was fluent in English and she ordered all kind of food for us (in chinese of course).

Ten minutes later good food came in the form of beef, duck and pork with fried rice. She told us she wanted to order smoked eel as well but decided against it. We never found out why.

So you see you can have an excellent meal for 225 HK (22 Euro/AUD 32) with 5 people without speaking a word of Chinese. (I hope they remember us the next time we come)

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At 7:47 pm, Blogger Princess Monkey said...

Dear Moes family,

Greetings from New York City!! We arrived yesterday evening for a wedding - much to do while we're away from Oz.

Great to see you're all moved in! The house is looking very much like a home -- hope you may be up for some company soon. A certain teacher who went on maternity leave last year is going to be in your area in a few weeks! She has your contact info and may try to contact you soon - I didn't give your e-mail address as you said it would be changing.

Quirinus has left the school last week (moved to local school - they're staying longer than originally planned), so now it's just Tamara's kids. Lots of Korean kids now.

PVG meeting last week has resulted in electing a prez, treasurer, etc. Karen is our president, with Sheetal being the treasurer, and Deb as our secretary. Not sure if they really resolved if there would be a VP or not - they kind of seemed ambivalent to that.

No news on appointing a new principal so far. The search continues...


Miss you,

--Elaine

 

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