roadside food stall goodies @ hong kong

one of the things that you would want to do, no scratch that, that you MUST do is to test the road side stall food in hong kong.

if you've ever watch a tvb drama series before, you would imagine those nice little push cart stalls where they will scream "chau kai" then the police raids!!

ahhh, a small lil push cart food stall on the road side picture.

nah, it's not, why because there isn't any left to be seen. either that or maybe i don't know where they're hiding, or perhaps they have been raided...


what you might be seeing if you're in the vicinity of mongkok would be something more like this:

yessss, my preciooooussssss.. all those junk food that you know is bad for you.. but they look so good... must try ... just one..

and you definitely know when there's one around the corner. as you can probably smell the stinky tofu from a mile away, esp if you visit hong kong during the cold months... the smells will stink up the whole street.

but i digress, as i would like to introduce the real stars of the show:

Meet the notorious stinky tofu:
i remember that i've read somewhere, the more the smell stinks, the better it taste, so while i hold my nose when i queue to buy this, i was a lil anxious to taste it. so much that i didn't even bother to put any sauce on it...

there goes a big bite, as my tongue begin to interpret the taste, in within one sec of my bite, the first thought was it taste like rotten cheese!!! and i almost puke it out... but we're on a public street, and public image always win over personal sufferings, so i swallowed it whole...

what was my verdict after the first bite.. WTF?!!! people eat this shit? i immediately move to the nearest recycle bin and dispose of it.

Next, was the formidable curry fishball, i was a little skeptical after the stinky tofu, but hey i had fish ball before, so how bad could this be right?

so from afar, it just looks like a bunch of fishball drowning in hot curry soup. so what did it taste like? it was rather hot and oily...

but the taste was actually like how it looks, take some fish ball simmer them in a hot curry long enough, and that's pretty much how it taste like. it taste better with some sweet sauce, and from my exp, diff stalls have different taste.

one of the stall that i saw kept recycling the oils that they use to grill some meat, and no suprise their curry fishball sux!!!! the fish ball has no fish ball taste, the curry doesn't taste like curry, it's a failure of failures!!!!

so after that, what's next?
well... i can't believe i can spew out so much crap for just review of two foods.

so here's some eye candy until the next one.
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