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I meant to post this a long long time ago, but I was quite busy with everything else going on in life, so this naturally got postponed...
So after successfully finishing our (gf and I) exchange in Tottori, Japan, we decided to reward ourselves with a tour around Asia. The trip began with Okinawa, which is a remote Japanese tropical island similar to Hawaii. After Okinawa, we decided to visit Hong Kong.
Hong Kong was an interesting experience because it was Motherland, but not really. Having suffered four long months of endless communication issues, it was great to finally understand the language and be understood.
Aside from tall buildings with colourful flash lights, Hong Kong had some of the best food I have ever had in my life. Dim sum has always been a big part of my life, and of course I wasn't giving up this golden opportunity.
Note: I was too busy eating, blame the poor quality of photos on my gf 
This sticky-rice is absolutely amazing...
Shark-fin for brunch? HMMMMM~
These taste as good as they look, if not better, seriously amazing.
I literally could not stop eating, and kept on ordering dishes from the carts. People must have thought I was crazy (well, in my defense, I was starving in Tottori).
This is how much we ate (two people)... Seventeen dishes by my count, this is potentially the most I have ever eaten in one sitting.
...and this is the damage (in HKD of course), roughly 85 USD by today's conversion rate (I think it was a little more at the time).
  
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Dang, that's still like 100 bucks.
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AHHH HONG KONG!!! my hometownn =)
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Looks great! The pictures are very good to props to your gf.
I would appreciate it if you labled the pictures with the names. I can recognize a bunch of them but I'd like to learn the names of the rest because they look really good.
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lol how much does that translate to USD?
I love asian foods so much... Those pictures were amazing
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awesome, i love dim sum!
whats the first pic? looks like wide rice noodles with stuff (shrooms or meat?) wrapped inside
sticky rice is mad good, so are shrimp dumplings and sui mai and a whole plethora of other things you posted
i hate cow stomach and woo gork (the taro thing) though hahaha
your pics made me hungryy!!
edit - I think it's about 85 USD
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I don't remember what some of them were, that's why I didn't label the pictures. The first ones weren't that great because I was so hungry (waited in line for an hour and half), as long as it looked edible, I grabbed it.
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85 dollars for two people.
Hahaha, that is quite a bit. The food looks so good though.
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lol wow that was an expensive meal hahaha
last time i went to dim sum it only cost like $80 for 10 or so people, and we all ate a lot... well, not as much as you haha.
it looks really good though O_O
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shark fin soup and tofu puding looks so yummy ^^
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This and the shrimp dumplings are my favorite dim sum dishes. And chicken feet in soy? sauce. I wish I could eat those dishes forever.
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Avidkeystamper, what is it?
Cambium, did you happen to eat, while you were there, a kind of dim sum - it's a huge dumpling, a little bigger than your fist, or maybe the same size, with seafood and other stuff (like mushrooms or bamboo or other veggies) in it; its also placed in a bowl of soup (broth). I think it's called 'tong gao" in cantonese. Just wondering, cuz when I had it there (they dont have it in US chinese restaurants) it was fuckin delicious.
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On January 11 2009 13:29 Avidkeystamper wrote:
And chicken feet in soy? sauce. I wish I could eat those dishes forever.
LoL, that's one of the few things I hate 
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On January 11 2009 13:32 ieatkids5 wrote:
Avidkeystamper, what is it?
Cambium, did you happen to eat, while you were there, a kind of dim sum - it's a huge dumpling, a little bigger than your fist, or maybe the same size, with seafood and other stuff (like mushrooms or bamboo or other veggies) in it; its also placed in a bowl of soup (broth). I think it's called 'tong gao" in cantonese. Just wondering, cuz when I had it there (they dont have it in US chinese restaurants) it was fuckin delicious.
Your description sounds like a kind of wonton soup. Being Chinese myself, I happen to know the secret ingredient in those dishes. The secret ingredient is MSG. It's not being racist when pretty much every Chinese restaurant uses MSG, it's fact. It makes food taste better. ^^
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Ah yes... the notorious MSG
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aw man... that dim sum dinner makes me drool
i can't eat dim sum 
there's something in it that gives me a massive headache every time i go out for dim sum, esp that yellow dumpling one..... yes something's wrong with me...
i envy you people who can eat dim sum >=(
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that sharkfin soup really brought up the cost. the last food pic is tofu fah, right?
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On January 11 2009 13:32 ieatkids5 wrote:
Avidkeystamper, what is it?
Cambium, did you happen to eat, while you were there, a kind of dim sum - it's a huge dumpling, a little bigger than your fist, or maybe the same size, with seafood and other stuff (like mushrooms or bamboo or other veggies) in it; its also placed in a bowl of soup (broth). I think it's called 'tong gao" in cantonese. Just wondering, cuz when I had it there (they dont have it in US chinese restaurants) it was fuckin delicious.
get a picture on here please, i think ive had that before.
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