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Hui-chen went on a business trip to China with our friend Jeff McMahon, owner of the RealSeat. On the way back we stopped in Hong Kong and went shopping of course!
This time we went towards the south end of the main shopping area, known as the Ladies’ Market.
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On our little trip to Wulai, we’ve seen that there is a lot more to the place than simply the waterfall for which it is famous. Wulai has hot springs, a river that is used for bathing, a downtown shopping area and an historical passenger railroad, in addition to the waterfall. Also many people don’t realize that you can see several other waterfalls within a few kilometers of Wulai. There are some excellent trails in the area for hiking.
We’re going to take a look at a few things on the way down to the waterfall. One of them is another shot of what’s been called “the cutest little train” the Log Cart.
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Hui-chen and I were in Kaohsiung for Chinese New Year. We decided to go to the Liuhe tourist night market for dinner. After finding this huge crowd, we decided to pass on dinner there!
So, how busy was your Chinese New Year?
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Hui-chen’s sister Ping-chen came over Saturday evening, and we took her to Laohukou Old Street area on Sunday. I’m getting tired of Laohukou because I think it’s way over-rated. Dasi Old Streets is way better and Dasi seems to retain more of the authentic flavor than Laohukou. Nevertheless, Laohukou is nearby, so off we went after a Sunday morning pancake breakfast.
This is the only food photo for this article. I suggested that Hui-chen try using the teppanyaki pan because it’s very easy to control and it should make perfect pancakes. The results speak for themselves. The batter features Bushman’s Secret Ingredient that makes the pancakes light and fluffy. Anyone care to guess what that might be?
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Continuing with our series on Hong Kong, our walking tour takes us to the fish market. Unlike the fish markets in Taiwan that we’ve blogged on many times, this fish market sells pet fish. The variety is unbelievable!
Hui-chen checks out some of the goldfish varieties
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Just around the corner from the Bird Garden (see the Geotagged Articles Map page to see exactly where) is one of the coolest street markets in the world. There is the famous Ladies’ Market, and also sections for sporting goods, electronics, and as shown above, general merchandise, mostly clothing.
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A few hundred meters from the Flower Market is Hong Kong’s famous Yuen Po Street Bird Garden. You walk around the corner to the left….
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Hui-chen and I love Hong Kong and we’d like to show you around some. This series will take you to several places of interest that we recommend.
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Hui-chen and I thought it would be a good idea to travel to the Hsinchu fish market and pick up some fish for grilling. It’s hard to beat the flavor of a nice fatty fish on the grill!
We have blogged on other fish markets before but not on this market, which is the closest one to our home in Hukou. On this day the available selections seemed a bit lighter than usual.
Before we went shopping for food, Hui-chen suggested that we eat at one of the restaurants. Yes, the hard-selling is still going on, and it’s still just as annoying! Here we see many of the wonderful greens that Taiwanese cuisine is famous for.
These are soft-shelled crabs. Each restaurant cooks a representative dish of their most popular offerings. I took some shots of the more interesting ones.
I am really not sure what the blue creatures are. When I find out I will update this post!
Naked frogs.
Hui-chen always gives me the same look when I snap a candid of her like this. We are waiting for the dishes to arrive.
This is our friend Michael Turton’s favorite: asparagus slathered in sweet mayo.
This is a sweet and sour deep fried fish (shot with flash to bring out the color of the sauce). The fish was the perfect size and the flavor was just great. I liked the sauce because it wasn’t overpowering like the sweet and sour sauces in the USA.
Standard fare: peel and eat shrimp.
After lunch we walked around the market and I spotted this carpet shark.
These are very large fish eyes just waiting for someone to buy them….
Now this is one of 2 things we came to get. I absolutely love salmon on the grill. The other thing we came to get were tuna steaks but there were not to be found. I did find a tuna subspecies tail section but I thought the price was too high.
Hui-chen carefully selected 2 beautiful salmon steaks for us.
These shots show just how nice the fish looked! Awesome!
Hui-chen wanted to get some clams for a dish she had in mind.
These are good prices for clams. 3 baskets for NT$200, or roughly US$6.
We put the fish in the freezer and took it out on Tuesday:
These are some of the blue shrimp that Shao-hui had the other day.
This is a lousy shot of the salmon grilling.
And this is the final shot of a piece of grilled salmon. I cannot tell you how good this was! The fat cooked up beautifully and created smoke that flavored the meat to perfection. I loved this meal!
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Sunday morning, up with the lark
I think I’ll take a walk in the park
Hey, hey, hey, it’s a beautiful day
I’ve got someone waiting for me
When I see her I know that she’ll say
Hey, hey, hey, it’s a beautiful day
Hi, hi, hi, beautiful SundayThis is my, my, my, beautiful day
When you say, say, say, say that you love meOh, my, my, my it’s a beautiful day
DANIEL BOONE lyrics – Beautiful Sunday
Hui-chen and I decided to go to the Hsinchu fish market, not far from our home in Hukou. We wanted to pick up some fish for grilling.
We have blogged on our visits to several fish markets before, but never on the Hsinchu market. The last time we were in that area with blogger David Reid at the Dragon Boat Festival. Back then I was so sick that I didn’t even blog on the Dragon Boat Festival, but there are lots of photos on flickr.com at the above link. I will blog on the food aspects of our trip to the Hsinchu Fish Market on Bushman’s Asian Food Blog, but for this post I want to talk about Beautiful Sunday.
When I say that the air was clear, I mean that it was amazingly clear! This jet passed overhead and I could almost count the passengers! Just look at that beautiful deep blue sky!
The wind was blowing so hard that it blew my hat off! Fortunately I had the lanyard tied tight so it didn’t fly away. These are some vendors set up outside the fish market. They are selling anything and everything that blows in the wind and they picked a great day for it!
Inside the fish market, it was business as usual….
But outside, the water was choppy. Check out the whitecaps on the Taiwan Straight in the distance. There was a lot of wind borne turbulence in the harbor.
A couple of guys had aerobatic kites and due to the high windspeed, you couldn’t follow the kites with your eyes because they were moving so fast. Check out the streamer – it’s almost tied in knots! I’ve never seen a kite move so fast before. The wind was quite literally typhoon strength. Hui-chen and I had trouble walking and I took off my glasses because I thought they would get blown off my face.
On the way home, there were several dust storms kicking up.
This is one of the lighter dust storms. Sometimes it was hard to see the mountains in the distance.
But the high winds also had a good side to them, as they blew the junk out of the air that normally hangs over Hsinchu (this and the following shots were taken from the car).
Notice the signs knocked down by the high winds. We haven’t had a direct typhoon hit in a couple of weeks. These signs were pushed over by recent high winds. Fortunately by Monday the wind has died down somewhat….
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