365 China Photo: One-A-Day

I flew to Hong Kong for the weekend as I had some friends to catch up with and some shopping to do. Canthy had given me two lists of things to look out for. One list was for baby stuff and the other was her Tiffany wish list. On my last trip I had bought her a lucky charm bracelet, but she had somehow lost one of the charms. Luckily for her I could replace it, but unlucky for me she added two more items to her list. As her hands are swollen with the pregnancy she can’t wear her wedding ring but bracelets and necklaces are OK. I didn’t mind as I liked what she had chosen  so will have get round to taking a photo of it one day. It was also my friend Winnie’s birthday so she invited me to her dinner party. People in Beijing tend to eat dinner early so it is often around 6pm. In Hong Kong you only meet around 8.30 and often don’t start eating till 9.30pm as was the case tonight. We went to FoFo which is a newish restaurant near Lan Kwai Fong, Hong Kong’s famous bar street.  I think its probably one of the most famous bar streets in the world as every tourists seems to go there. The restaurant was very Hong Kong; modern, very stylish and serving contemporary Spanish food. The highlight was the suckling pig which the Chef came out to present himself. He told us it was slow cooked for 12 hours, then deboned and seared for crispiness, using a traditional Spanish recipe that makes the meat very tender. Well he wasn’t wrong, as the pig tasted great and by the time we finished eating around midnight, all that was left was its head.