CJWDT: Hong Kong

To find right job, right opportunity... my culinary journey continues. Here I am in Hong Kong! It has been 4 days since I arrived. I've done 3 interviews and have set up 3 stage coming up and planning to speak more restaurants.

Hong Kong has been my "want to go" list long time since I start cooking. My first impression to this city is FOOD!! This city love food, that's how I feel.

As I mentioned on this blog previously, but Chinese cuisine has been one of the cuisines I REALLY want to learn. There're many reasons, but name some. Chinese cuisine have the longest history in the world, also have the most varieties & also styles and the fact this cuisine is the grandmother of many Asian cuisines.

Like I said before, I think the quality of Chinese produce is poor, BUT I think Chinese cuisine have many techniques maximize the flavor of ingredients. The techniques could be drying, curing, smoking or something simple, yet they can probably draw every single drop of umami flavor from anything, say ...single scallop! I really wanna learn about it, it's just simple pure real cooking developed with long culinary history.

Hong Kong is not exactly China, but Chinese(obviously lots of Cantonese) restaurants and ingredients are all here, English is widely spoken, many chefs around the globe opening the restaurants and I'm a big city boy.... This is the place where I should work if it's not now, just later!

The restaurants I'm interested:

http://www.one-thirtyone.com/

http://gedining.com/index.php

http://www.libertypw.com/2011/

http://www.amberhongkong.com/

http://www.mandarinoriental.com/hongkong/dining/restaurants/mandarin_grill/

http://www.mandarinoriental.com/hongkong/dining/restaurants/the_krug_room/

http://www.boinnovation.com/2010/BO/index.html

http://www.shangri-la.com/en/property/shanghai/pudongshangrila/dining/restaurant/jadeon36/menu

http://www.hoteldeedge.com.hk/restaurant-en.html

http://www.facebook.com/AVArestauranthk

http://www.fourseasons.com/hongkong/dining/caprice/

http://tbls-kitchenstudio.com/Home_Page.php

http://themirror.hk/



EAT List:
1000 year old egg, chicken testicle, turtle jelly, sea slugs, stinky tofu, snake soup...

I'm pretty sure I can find tons of new ingredients I never taste. But also I just want to try many of "typical" Chinese dishes I ate around the world. Name some:

char su bao, wonton noodle, congee, siu mei, dim sum, roast sucking pig....

For dessert:

pineapple bun, HK style French toast, egg tart, HK milk tea, put chai ko, gai dan zai...



If any readers going to HK, you can get by with English, but may wanna try on some Cantonese >>

http://wikitravel.org/en/Cantonese_phrasebook

I have one way ticket to Bangkok, just bought to secure to get in HK at the immigration. I really hope to find my job here in Hong Kong, but if not.... CJWDT'11: Thailand coming up!!

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