Temple Market and Dinner that Moves
Hong Kong time 9:15am
Late start today after a full day of site seeing around the Jade Markets and Temple Night Markets...we managed to barter our way around the stalls with much savy help from Marilyn and Andrea...Debbie and I just nodded and tried to appear hard barginers.
Food is fresh as can be...last night it was on a table beside our out door resturant called the Spicy Crab moving and riggling to prove its freshness. We stopped at an outdoor restaurant that was at the end of the Temple Night Market, after making our way through stalls offering every conceivable thing you'd want to purchase...not as open to bartering as the Jade Market from earlier in the day.
The tables were outside full of people eating all manner of seafood, squid, crab, prawns, shrimp and other meats and dishes. We perched ourselves on plastic stools and watched the crowd mill by while watching the waiters/cooks retrieve the occasional live object from the table near by. Huge buckets contained fish swimming and flipping their tales.
Having stuffed myself on incredible food at lunch I wasn't up to seafood that was that fresh, so settled for a pineapple, green pepper dish that came to the table within two seconds of leaving the kitchen...from our vantage point we watched the shoppers of every nationality and age go by...
Today is the giant budda and victoria harbor...cheers, Michelle
Late start today after a full day of site seeing around the Jade Markets and Temple Night Markets...we managed to barter our way around the stalls with much savy help from Marilyn and Andrea...Debbie and I just nodded and tried to appear hard barginers.
Food is fresh as can be...last night it was on a table beside our out door resturant called the Spicy Crab moving and riggling to prove its freshness. We stopped at an outdoor restaurant that was at the end of the Temple Night Market, after making our way through stalls offering every conceivable thing you'd want to purchase...not as open to bartering as the Jade Market from earlier in the day.
The tables were outside full of people eating all manner of seafood, squid, crab, prawns, shrimp and other meats and dishes. We perched ourselves on plastic stools and watched the crowd mill by while watching the waiters/cooks retrieve the occasional live object from the table near by. Huge buckets contained fish swimming and flipping their tales.
Having stuffed myself on incredible food at lunch I wasn't up to seafood that was that fresh, so settled for a pineapple, green pepper dish that came to the table within two seconds of leaving the kitchen...from our vantage point we watched the shoppers of every nationality and age go by...
Today is the giant budda and victoria harbor...cheers, Michelle
posted by China Mom at
5:15 PM
1 Comments:
Oooo... all that fresshh seafood. I am so envious. The bartering sounds fun too. I love dickering the price down. It's the best part of a busy market :-)
Sounds like you're having fun there.
Winter finally landed a couple days ago. We'll get 36 hours of melt down today only to get extreme cold (below normal) starting tomorrow sometime. It will continue for "the foreseeable future" which is about 5 days. The Winterlude organizer's are in panic-mode trying to plan lots of indoor activities but people come to skate, ski and slide so their efforts will mean nothing without 2 weeks of extra cold weather.
Back to the job search. Take care.
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Gailene (Zamira), at 7:14 AM
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