{"id":481,"date":"2010-10-24T08:08:40","date_gmt":"2010-10-24T12:08:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/worksforfood.com\/read\/?p=481"},"modified":"2017-10-02T12:57:22","modified_gmt":"2017-10-02T16:57:22","slug":"hong-kong-moments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danielharr.is\/read\/2010\/10\/24\/hong-kong-moments\/","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong Notes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What&#8217;s Hong Kong like?  I&#8217;m done travel blogging it, I think, but here are my notes:<\/p>\n<p>13th: 6 lbs. of Velveeta and I go through 15 minutes of interrogation about its solidity, potential explosive qualities, and my travel history at JFK.  We pass.<\/p>\n<p>15th: Killer onion bhajjis.  Suit measurement in <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tsim_Sha_Tsui\">TST<\/a>, followed by Kowloon Park (wow, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hornbill\">hornbills<\/a> are weird), <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/File:HK_Hui_Lau_Shan.JPG\">Hui Lau Shan<\/a> (Mango with Mango and Mango Mango in Mango Sauce). Back in Yuen Long, way too much Japanese food and way too much Cantonese dessert (with an English menu!).<\/p>\n<p>16th: The &#8220;treehouse&#8221; at <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kam_Tin\">Kam Tin<\/a>, a master class in scaring wild dogs, Din Tai Fung xiaolongbao and other deliciousness in TST, having bread thrown at me by a kid (hey, it works on fish!), FROZEN COKE MACHINE!, an open air BYO bar atop ifc.<\/p>\n<p>17th: Delicious pancakes.  Horse races at Sha Tin, finally (I&#8217;m a slow tourist).  Hunting the elusive English menu, Vietnamese food version, through the twisty streets of downtown Yuen Long.  More Cantonese dessert, less English menu.<\/p>\n<p>18th: More bhajjis, hurtling completely lost through Tuen Mun Town Plaza and its many friends, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ching_Chung_Koon\">Ching Chung Koon<\/a>, the light rail, as crowded and stinky as ever, a surreal minute or two back in Siu Hong railway station, Tsui Wah and a surprisingly decent beer bar (Beerlao dark!). <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What&#8217;s Hong Kong like? I&#8217;m done travel blogging it, I think, but here are my notes: 13th: 6 lbs. of Velveeta and I go through 15 minutes of interrogation about its solidity, potential explosive qualities, and my travel history at JFK. We pass. 15th: Killer onion bhajjis. Suit measurement in TST, followed by Kowloon Park [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[173],"tags":[196],"class_list":["post-481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bar-trip","tag-hong-kong"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielharr.is\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielharr.is\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielharr.is\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielharr.is\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielharr.is\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=481"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/danielharr.is\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":510,"href":"https:\/\/danielharr.is\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481\/revisions\/510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielharr.is\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielharr.is\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielharr.is\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}