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Foods I Never Thought I Would Eat...

A travel blog entry by claypuddles

... has been my favorite so far? ...the Octopus
Which has been my [least] favorite so far? ...the cow stomach

This has only been 1.5 months! ...My friends keep talking about coagulated pig blood and intestine (that they've eaten for lunch on a regular day)- I think I foresee that in my future.

Oh...and no Tums have been involved with any of these meals!

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A Trip to The Peak

A travel blog entry by pringie22

... and he followed us to the tram. It was about a 15 minute walk from the hostel to the tram station, and in the ~95% humidity we were all pretty hot and sweaty. 40 minutes later and we were climbing the mountain side towards the peak.

When we arrived, we saw the Germans Josh and Christoph getting off the same tram. This was great because we already knew they were like minded and were up for a bit of a laugh. Patrick on the other ...

Hong Kong Wow

A travel blog entry by beckerworldtrip

... hotels listed on the hotel booking sites. However, the hotel did not have any ofthe problems that the reviewers had with all those at the bottom of the heap, the place where we usually dwell. Hong Kong hotels are notoriously cramped and dirty and placed in bad neighborhoods, which wasn’t our experience here at all. By spending an extra fifty bucks per night we had a much more tolerable stay. However, we had only booked four nights and asked the ...

Going to Stanley Market and Aberdeen

A travel blog entry by kansonthego

... Old egg with Pickled ginger, best we ever tasted. The liver and pork sausages were super fresh. We wonder whether Lucy's maternal grandfather made then like that. Lucy's Mom always talked about his Lap-Ap Poo, He used to have people working on everything from cured meats to different kind of sausages.

We came back to Kowloon side via subway. We are getting really getting good at taking public ...

Ramen on 11's

A travel blog entry by bmah

November 11. Significance?

In Canada, it's Remembrance Day.

For China, it's Apple iPhone4S release day.

For Hong Kong, it's Wedding Day. Land of the superstitious. Weddings galore were booked for 11-11-11.

The Eaton hotel was certainly a hopping place for weddings - brides, grooms, guests, flowers, cars, colorful bridesmaids, groups... Yesterday we had also seen the crowds of ...