My amazing trip to New Zealand with my dear friend Annette. We had a magical experience in the Land of the Long, White Cloud.

Dim Sam

For those of you who have never experienced dim sam! My friend Christine and her husband Tony were so sweet, they took me out to "Yam Cha" (aka Dim Sam, a brunch where you order a variety of tasty appetizers such as dumplings and chicken-feet and the like) my last day in Hong Kong. They love to eat just as much as I do, but our eyes were a bigger than our stomachs. You may be beginning to wonder why so many of my photos and posts have to do with food- two reasons, #1-I love food, #2 the food in HK is fascinating, HK has a reputation for having everything under the sun to eat. You can eat anything you want- any ethnic food, any exotic animal, any exotic part of an animal- so long as you've got the money. I just can't help myself but photograph and savour it all! Featured dishes: fried won tons, bbq pork buns, lotus root buns, chinese celery (not shown, I just have to prove I ate some veggies), and the long deep-fried sticks are an update of the traditional spring-roll- delish!!!

My time in Hong Kong is now over and I am sadly returned to Provo, UT! At least I got to have fun in New Zealand, but I still miss HK! Here are a few pics from my last week in HK.
Here's a picture of Fiona, T and I at a Chinese dessert place eating mango ice cream with other oddities thrown in like crystal jelly and coconut noodles. This fish picture is actually siaymo- something-or-other, which translates as small, very pregnant fish. You eat everything but the head. This was from the sushi dinner I ate with my friend Heather in Macau. It was a wonderful weekend, Heather drove me around on the back of her motor bike and I got to vist my good friend Lili's dad (Lili is serving her mission in Melbourne, Australia and her family aren't memebers- yet).
I have also included a picture of the Chinese dress I had made in a little shop in North Point. As you can see, the place is over-flowing with fabric, you can only fit one person down the one aisle of the shop which makes trying on clothes a bit of a challenge.
Who ever knew that the world's largest cream puffs are made at Sweet Papa's in HK? They even come with mango filling!
And the last photo is from my good bye-gathering of my international friends- oh how I shall miss them!