YOGAYUGA

These are very personal reasons. It may not apply to everyone. It’s also nothing related to cultural issues. It’s just my personal thinking and idea. It’s absolutely up close and personal.

1. I love all kinds of sandwiches, absolutely any kind! Steak sandwich, Roast Beef French Bauguette, Pastrami Sandwich and Cuban Sandwich are all nice. All these are fancy sandwiches in H.K. (Well, we don’t have Cuban sandwich in H.K. I presume.) They all are expensive, needless to say our portions are much smaller. Taste is about the same as western food of H.K. is well known good.

2. Coffee here is fantastic! I enjoy so much the coffee here especially the so called Cuban coffee.

3. Great salad! I am not a salad person, but I am completely addicted to salad in here. They are unbelievable delicious especially those Grilled Chicken Caesar Salad, Salmon Platter, etc. The shrimp cocktail is unbelievable delicious no matter where I have it.

4. Awesome dark chocolate! Everyone gave eachother chocolate in the office since Christmas is approaching. The dark chocolate here is so tasty with very low price. Let’s say USD5.00 for two boxes of Fer Rondnoir dark chocolate. We don’t even have dark chocolate of Fer Rondnoir in H.K. Godiva chocolate only costs around USD3.00 for a big pack. It’s so expensive in H.K.

5. Grilled Chicken Fillet, Grilled Salmon fillet, whatever fillet they are….they all are so tasty. The grilled dishes are just so nice.

6. Pizza here is so exotic. I love them, but unfortunately they are huge. I can’t finish the whole all on my own. I wish I could share with  someone here for a very nice pizza dinner. The smallest size of pizza is 16″ on all the menus of restaurants here, included food delivery service. This is the family size in H.K. We all share the pizza. I did see a family of five having a 16″ pizza each person on the table in an Italian restaurant of South Beach. Two of the family members were also kids. No kids can finish a 16″ pizza all on their own in H.K.

7. Desserts are rich in taste but they are of any kinds. There are many choices to choose, and in good price. I can have a big piece of cheese cake under USD3.00. in common restaurants. It’s impossible to have this price in H.K. with such big size and good standard.

8. Microwave food here is delicious. I don’t like microwave food at home as they don’t usually taste good. I guess microwave food is not so common in H.K., so we don’t aim to make them any better. Every family cooks at home, so we don’t need microwave food. I found the majority of my female colleagues don’t cook. They usually order food delivery.

9. Supermarket food here are all great. There are many to choose from. Just look at the cheese and yogurt sections, the choices are more than I can imagine. USD4.89 for 12 cups of yogurt is such a nice price. Such diet is more expensive in H.K. Our yogurt doesn’t contain real fruits inside the content though. They do in here. Cookies, muffins and bread here are gorgeous. Milk tastes sweet and is very fresh. I can find milk with Vitamin A, B, C, D here. We only have milk with calcium in H.K.

10. I can eat all kind of fishes with “no bone” in here. They all are simply fillets. Chinese fish cooking is always with the whole piece of fish therefore, bones are not taken off at all. I really hate eating fishes with too many tiny bones. My mum knows it, and always complains I don’t eat enough of her fish dish. LoL

I am not a rice person, so I am totally fine without eating much rice these days. I did only eat some as side dish, the local Cuban style rice. They are cooked in Italian way. I am also not a traditional Chinese eater so I am totally fine without Chinese food at all.

Well, American diet can make the majority fat that all my colleagues agreed. They said American water can also make everyone fat.^_^; Well, I am happy that I have some weights gained during the period I am here. I got no problem with weights, so I don’t complain all these fatty diet. I just enjoy them. I only complain that my weights didn’t go to the area I want. They all go to my tummy!!! This is horrible! LOL

My another Cuban sandwich for lunch. I totally fall in love with this Cuban piece of delicious. I just love the taste of hot Swiss cheese mixed with mustard, pickles, ham and roast chicken covered with crispy Cuban bread. In fact, you can only find Cuban sandwich in Key West and Miami, Florida, in the U.S. I love Insalata Caprese so much. It’s so freshy with fresh Mozzarella, Basil and tomato. It’s something I can clean my stomach very well.

My lime cheese cake and my tin soup for dessert and dinner. It’s nice with oyster inside the tin soup.

If I could cook properly in my kitchen, I certainly will enjoy so much everything I cook. I will cook steak with lots of mushrooms and peppers. It’s too smelly to cook in my kitchen as the smoke doesn’t go away.

I lived in England and N.Z. British supermarkets were a bit off from meat, fruits and vegetables during the period I was in there. Choices of vegetables, dairy products, seafood, meats, fruits, bakery were awesome for selection in N.Z. I remembered. American supermarkets are good in average for all these categories I found.

Okay, enough for my food passion of the day! How can you believe someone who loves food so much and never put on weights?? Well, I did have a bit of improvement this time…..:P

I drank 36 bottles of  500ml water in three weeks. I always feel thirsty since I came here. I guess it’s related to the food. Meat, pasta, pizza, sandwich and salad are kind of dry food. I do feel very thirsty after I eat them. I had Caesar Chicken salad for lunch, and made my own pasta for dinner. It seems pasta is my only choice for cooking in my room as the smell is so strong that doesn’t go away if I cooked steak and such….

I cooked my pasta with the Triple Pepper Salsa sauce. It tastes so good.

I bought this from the supermarket. It’s with uncooked rice and sauce. It’s just microwave food. I have never tried to cook rice with microwave though. It’s very tasty. A good try! I like the box package too, very good quality.

This is the coffee I like very much. My colleagues have it everyday. It’s like the Italian Espresso, but it’s size is even smaller than common Espresso. It’s strong, rich and very sweet. I can’t have it too often as it’s too rich for me.

I had a Hooters Mushroom Swiss burger for dinner. It was tasty, but so rich. I couldn’t finish it. The last time I went to Hooters, it was back to beginning of 2005 in Singapore. My Taiwanese colleagues loved to go to Hooters, so I had been there several times when I worked in Taipei. I enjoyed the Hooters girls show too. Hooters girls are always hot. Needless to say, those in Hooters here are super hot!! Well, I didn’t see any show tonight, but just waited for my burger to go!!

I took the local Sky train down town after I got off from the cruise. I just waned to have a short ride, and see what it is like. I was curious. It looked so nice while I saw it from far away during day time. It was 6pm already when I took it. I didn’t know that there were so many homeless and strange people on the train. It’s a free train. I quickly got off after one stop. I wouldn’t try it again at night time. I felt a bit scared actually. People told me American down towns are usually not so safe, I guess I know why now.

I took a cruise tour today for 1.5 hours! I went to Bayside down town Market Place, but didn’t expect any cruise trip. And it happened! It only costs USD15.00 for each person. It was USD20.00, but the first 15 persons offered with special discount. I was within the first 15. I didn’t pay much attention about the tour details, and just realised after I got on the cruise that it was a tour of Millionaires Row and beautiful Biscayne Bay. I just wanted to get on the boat, and go somewhere beautiful. ^_^; It takes you to see the Homes of The Rich and Famous. All the expensive houses are built along Biscayne Bay. Houses include Elizabeth Taylor, Frank Sinatra, Julio Iglesias, Jackie Chan and Gloria Estefan, etc. The tour guide introduced each house when our boat passed by each of them, but most of those people he mentioned I have never heard. Many are Spanish singers, and local stars. I only know the well known international stars such as Jennifer Lopez, Jackie Chan of course, Ricky Martin and Elizabeth Taylor, etc.

It was a great fun trip with VERY Caribbean atmosphere. They played special song on the boat when came to house of that particular person. They made up sound of Ku Fung when we passed by house of Jackie Chan. They played song of Ricky Martin as well. The whole tour started from Bayside Market Place, passed by well known houses, South Beach, and back to Bayside.

The bay view was fantastic with so many boats and cruises around the whole area. I guess I had been 1/20 of Caribbean sea. lol

House of Jackie Chan, and house of Ricky Martin

They played the song of Ricky Martin by the time we passed through his house…You can see me in the end of the video…

People were singing and dancing in the Market Place. Latino music was all around…

You can hear the music…

The building view looks so much like ours in Hong Kong….

I told myself not to eat something too heavy everyday, so I chose to have Pastrami sandwich for lunch and mussel with tomato soup for dinner today.

I am so tired after screen shopping in the international mall for few hours….oh well, it’s part of my job as I need to shop and see the current trend of the market. I now need to source accessories for what American women like, not what Asian women like. I am working for the complete American market!!

I didn’t know that we need to bring a Christmas gift for the company Christmas party tomorrow. No one told me until the driver told me after work. Well, I am new so I am not supposed to bring gift he said. However, I bought a bottle of red wine for gift.

I ordered a wrong dish for my to go dinner tonight. I was thinking to order something like shrimp cocktail but it came with something not what I want. I found that I read the wrong menu, the dish I ordered was Shrimp & Macaroni Salad. It’s tasty though. I am not BIG in salad originally, but I eat a lot of salad in here. Sandwiches and salad are the greatest food I found in this city.

We had so many sandwiches in the office during lunch time as there was executive meeting going on. The administration prepared too much sandwiches and cookies so they distributed to us. Then my colleagues gave me most of them. I only picked three. Since I came here, I can’t stop eating in the office. Once I stopped, there must be someone giving me something such as tea, coffee, cookie and dessert. People do like eating all the time in my office. They brought their home made desserts, cakes and whatsoever. I wonder if I will really have some weight gained before I leave. I don’t feel I have much weight gained so far from how I see myself in the mirror.

It’s my cooking. I bought these peppers in the supermarket. I just love them, love the colour.