Hey Jenn! I m a breakfast lover too--and now i m sold on macaroni soup! The milk tea is indispensabl

Well, howdy! car rental san juan puerto rico It has been a VERY long time since I've posted, car rental san juan puerto rico I know. We've been back from our trip to Hong Kong for a week now and I haven't been able to summon up the will to blog (or do much of anything, really). The jet lag is really killing car rental san juan puerto rico me, I've been struggling to stay awake through work, coming home, and falling asleep at 6:30, then waking up in the middle of the night. Annoying! (And I have learned way more about late night TV than I ever thought I would.) So anyway, I finally uploaded the first 80ish photos from the trip on to Flickr, and thought I would kick things off with a post all about breakfast in HK.
But first, can I just show you a (crappy) picture of the atrium of our hotel? We stayed in the Royal Garden Hotel in Tsim Sha Tsui (on the Kowloon side) and aside from an amazing view of the harbor from our room, the hotel had this awesome atrium. And there were glass elevators! Too cool. Of course, the first thing we thought of when we saw this was High Anxiety (there may have been a few reenactments of the newspaper scene).
So, that first morning in HK, we were severely car rental san juan puerto rico jet lagged and got a very early start to the day. And here is my first milk tea of the trip. Mmm, milk tea. (I relied on my phone to take a lot of pictures when I didn't feel like bringing out the giant dSLR, so some of these photos are sub-par. And now I regret having car rental san juan puerto rico been so lazy. Hmph!)
Of course we couldn't just have tea for breakfast, and thus began our obsession with macaroni soup. This was at a cha chaan teng in Central, if I recall correctly. This is a pretty standard option for breakfast, and although it seemed like a weird concept at first, it was very soothing and tasty.
The macaroni breakfast set at Fairwood, which is a chain of cafeteria style fast food restaurants. You make your order with a cashier at the front of the restaurant, then walk to the back and hand your receipt over at the pick-up counter, where they put the orders together. Man, the speed of these workers is really something else. Anyway, this is the scrambled egg and toast set.
Here's Py's version, which if I recall correctly was tomato flavored (and listed as Italian). He was just as enamored of macaroni soup as I was, and has been making it at home; if we're lucky, maybe he'll write a guest blog about his version. (HINT HINT!)
And this was hands down the oddest breakfast I had the whole trip. We stopped in at a place with no English menu, so I just asked for the breakfast "set a" and this is what we got. Cold sliced bread (with the crusts cut off!) pre-buttered (margarined, actually), a sausage, some eggs, and a mystery piece of deep-fried meat with mayo. I think it was pork. This was not exactly my cup of tea, but I found it interesting, at least!
Okay, well I think this has gotten long enough so I'll stop here. I'm still uploading photos, and the full set is here , if you're interested in seeing other pics. I have a couple more posts to come, including a wedding banquet, some adorable pets, and much much more food!
hiii! looks so fun and delicious. i actually make my own milk tea and it is quite good! for the base i used black tea or assam tea. for sweetness i add splenda, or you can add sweetened condensed milk. for creaminess, i add evaporated milk, or whatever milk you have laying around (but it wont be as fantastic as evaporated or sweetened condensed milk). play around with it and im sure you will find a combination that you will enjoy! :)
Hey Jenn! I m a breakfast lover too--and now i m sold on macaroni soup! The milk tea is indispensable...it s so smooooooth. And man, what a caffeine kick it gives you. Hi J.D--thanks for the suggestions! I ve been trying to figure out what kind of tea to use, so will try assam. The hot milk tea always seems to be unsweetened, so maybe they are using evaporated milk...although yeah, condensed milk tastes better ;) I hope I can make something close, that would make my day!
Re: Your odd breakfast. I had a similar experience in Tokyo, where I ordered what they were calling a breakfast burrito. It was a hotdog in a tortilla (but a Japanese tortilla, which is hard to explain, but it s somewhere between a flour tortilla and a won-ton wrapper in thickness. So odd). That s it. Just a hot dog. O_o
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