Dinner fit for Royalty



After the tailor we began the trip to dinner with a cross harbor trip on via the Star Ferry ($0.28US) to Central.
Next a taxi to Aberdine (the Southernmost part of HK Island) brought us to the boat that would take us to Jumbo Floating Boat restaurant.
The top photo is of the dock where we board the boat to the reastuarant. The restaurant is the brightly lit boat on the left hand photo.
The photo on the right shows Tony, Mag and my parents on the boat over to the restaurant.

Since I get so many comments from folks that love the food photos...I thought I'd make a seperate entry just for this special dinner.

The first course we had was called Thousand Year Old Eggs. You put a slice of the hot (spicy) ginger atop with a pinch of suger and eat-em-up -- YUM!

Mom had a little difficulty eatting this slippery bugger with chopsticks, but had no trouble once she assisted with the big spoon...
Dad sarcastically said "This is how you do it" as he had a firm grip on his egg with his chopsticks...Until he went for a bite! It slipped into his napkin in his lap and brought the waitress running to help get it back to his plate and get him a new napkin. Stubbornly he tried it again -- without the aid of the big spoon (used the all to small spoon)...and again Dad couldn't seem to keep it in his chopsticks NOR the spoon. Finally Third time was the charm with the proper spoon! Very tasty!! A close up of the eggs...they taste great - better than they look I promise!!


Next we popped downstairs to select the live seafood for our dinner.
We selected the following. The first photo is what we picked, the second is how is looked cooked! EVERYTHING was DELICIOUS!!!

*Lobster: local spiney lobster Sautéd with long life noodles


*Large Local Scallops cooked with garlic & green bean noodle


*Leopard Coral Garoupa - steamed with green onion (a favorite of mine!!)


*Urinating Shrimp - very local - in Japanese - Sa-goo


** All are from the South China Sea **

We also had a few bowls of veggies and some lovely shark's fin soup:


Our hosts convinced us to hop onto the throne for a photo op! My parents decided that they should pretend to be royalty and put on the superior look...Mom could hardly keep from smiling! It's a little fuzzy because they both bust out laughing both times I tried to take a solumn shot.