I live to eat

Dim sum on Thursday

To be honest, it feels like I haven't been doing almost anything else in here than eating. That's usually the highlight of the day - I'm trying to order different kinds of meals and not to get stuck with sweet & sour pork with rice (even though IT IS DELICIOUS!!). And another confession: I've eaten at McDonald's three times already. Double cheeseburger tastes even better in here than what it tastes like in Austria or Finland. Last time I was lucky enough to have 3 slices of cheese in my burger. Happy life.

But since I did not come all the way to Hong Kong to eat burgers, I made a bet with Adrian that I will not eat at McDonald's before November, and if I do, I have to pay him HKD100 which is about 11 euros. But of course this is not only a matter of money, this is about my self-respect and those small pieces of dignity I have left, and I am planning on keeping them.

On Thursday our buddies Nancy and Alisa took us for some dim sum to a restaurant at the school campus. Dim sum means all kind of foods which are cooked with steam, and they are served in round wooden plates, usually you order plenty of different ones and then everyone in the table can try whatever they want. We ate a lot and had some tea with the food, and in the end it cost HKD30 each person (3 or so euros)! So good and so cheap! At the dim sum place there was Nancy's friend called Enix who did his exchange in Jyvaskyla last spring, it was pretty funny to hear his thoughts about my dear home country.

Inwoo, the BBQ master

"What kind of restaurant makes you cook your own meal?"

A bit awkward "Kombeeee", these eating pictures are always accidentally funny.

And yesterday we went to a Korean BBQ restaurant in Hung Hom with Nick's Korean roomie Inwoo. It reminded me of hot pot since we had to cook our own food, which makes the whole eating experience way more social than just everyone eating their own soup or fried rice like we usually do. This time the meat was good but a bit pricey (around 20 euros per person including 2 beers each) comparing to what we're used to now. Today we got lunch at some random restaurant and I got a very good noodle soup and a Sprite with HKD38. Food-wise I could say Hong Kong is my heaven.

Other important stuff from the last few days: we made a pilgrimage to an H&M on Canton Road in Kowloon, experienced an extremely heavy rain in the middle of the night, and went to the karaoke again. Tonight we're off to a party which is in the highest bar on earth... Tough life, huh?

Wilson, a Swedish dude, Nick

Kathi found Austrian wine and was very happy about it :P

Exchange students behaving well, as always.