Costumes shops can be found all over the street markets. Wigs, costumes, masks. You name it. Apparently Hong Kongians use any festival/holiday/celebration as an excuse to wear a costume. A colleague went to a rugby match and said everyone was decked out as if it were Mardi Gras. I haven't seen anyone in costume yet, but the stalls are always full on the weekends. And wouldn’t you know, when I went to grab this photo one day, I ran into a co-worker who was buying a costume for a Hawaiian themed party later that week.
Food. So I’ve been in ignorant bliss for 8 weeks. Since everything is listed in kcals, I haven’t felt guilty about eating. But then I had some yogurt that listed kcal and calories. Ugh. Good thing there are lots of hills to walk here. Although I go to Pret A Manger just about every day for lunch, I like to think that I’ve had a nice mix of western and Asian food since I’ve been here. I’ve realized that I prefer Thai, Vietnamese and Japanese food to Chinese food. I find Cantonese Chinese food a bit bland. I’ve been told that Sichuan is VERY spicy, but never got around to trying any. Some of my favorite meals: fried mini soft-shell crabs (except for the legs, which embarrassingly accumulated on my plate), local fish prepared by a co-worker’s nanny and the Vietnamese restaurant in Stanley with noodles and ginger beer. Some of my worse meals: Mak’s noodles (fun and glad we went, but the more I think about it, the more I really don’t know what we were eating and it smelled a little like the meat-market to me), some of my shrimp meals – how the heck do you peel shrimp with chop sticks?!, the boring meals I made myself once everyone left (it’s no fun to cook for one in a tiny kitchen without an oven) and the mystery meat at McD’s. But no worries-I didn’t starve ;)
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