Temple Street Night Market

Kowloon - This flea market is full of quirky, Hong Kong souvenirs and t-shirts to take home. The actual market on Temple Street is in the Yau Ma Tei and Jordan sections of Temple Street. The flea market starts in the late afternoon every day and continues throughout the evening.

You can find fake’designer' handbags, sunglasses, clothes, and electronic gadgets.  The atmosphere was filled with many tourist of different nationalities.  Along the sides were many seafood restaurants, mostly crowded.    You will also find fortuner teller stalls plying their trade.

Hui Lau Shan's Desserts

Kowloon - Hui Lau Shan has served local deserts soup (tong sui) since the 1960s.  This famous desert chain store has spread regionally and is well known for its fresh mango desserts.

Famous mango desert

The mango is so fresh and it was a refreshing desert in the humid HK weather.   This mango desert set also comes with mochi.

Mango mochi

The Mango Mochi is a dessert that is so delicious, added with the coconut shavings on top. 

Yau Ma Tei Theatre

Hong Kong -  A short walk from the Fruit market is the Yau Ma Tei Theatre was once the largest theater in Kowloon and the only remaining pre-World War II theater in the Kowloon Peninsula. It opened in 1930 and is now a Grade II historic building.

old projector used in this theatre

It is currently a venue for Cantonese Opera, and provides a 300-seating auditorium.  

Yau Ma Tei Fruit Market

The biggest difference between

MONEY & TIME

You Always know much much MONEY you have

But You Never know how much TIME you have

Kowloon - This trip I stayed around Yau Ma Tei MTR station, one station from my last trip @ Mongkok station.  Yau Ma Tei is one of Hong Kong's oldest and most diverse neighbourhoods, streets and buildings brings you back to Hong Kong of old times.   Yau Ma Tei, formerly known as Waterloo (named after Waterloo Road).

It was a fasinating place, old man singing along street corners, street walkers everywhere and the famous Fruit market.  The nickname Gwo Laan came later; gwo means fruit and laan refers to a wholesale market

Yau Ma Tei Fruit warehouse at night

Fruit market in the afternoon

The wholesale fruit market that has operated at the corner of Waterloo Road and Reclamation Street since 1913.  Every night, workers get to work pushing and pulling boxes of pineapples, durians and all kind of fruts from around the world between warehouses and trucks.   Stacks and stacks of fruit boxes piled high ready for the next morning.

Gyukingu Japanese BBQ @ Kota Damansara

Kuala Lumpur - I went to this Japanese Yakiniku restaurant that claims to be the best in KL.   Yakiniku is the Japanese word for “grilled meat.” Yaki means grilled and niku is meat.

What is Wagyu Beef?  I hear many friends say 'Kobe' beef is better than Wagyu which is actually wrong because Wagyu means 'Japanese cow or Japanese beef'.

Wa means Japanese and gyu means cow. This includes the famous Kobe and Matsusaka beef.
So “Wagyu” refers to any cattle that is bred in Japan or the Japanese-style.

Gyukingu beef

Australian beef

Australian Wagyu Beef means it comes from the highly marbled, ultra-rich breed that made Japan famous.  I also found out the Australian Wagyu beef grading is almost identical to Japanese beef grading.

In the Japanese system, the BMS scale goes from 3 to 12, with 3 being the basic minimum of marbling a steak should have, and 12 being a steak that is almost white with marbling.

The AUS-MEAT marbling system. This scale goes from 0 (no marbling) to 9+ (extraordinary amounts of marbling), the latter one being the highest grade. The Australian Wagyu grading scores are identical to the Japanese BMS scale, meaning an Australian Wagyu BMS 5 is the same as a Japanese Wagyu BMS 5. However, the Australian scale tops out at grade 9, and everything above it (scores 10, 11, and 12), are graded 9+.

I tried for the first time Wagyu grade 5 - it was so good - it melted in my mouth.

Wagyu grade 5

Marbled grade 5 beef over coals

Ed, Donny and me having a delicious meal

Umeshu

Octopus

Chicken gizzard

Pork over Enokitake

Shishamo

Stir fried glass noodles

Lastly, must have greens for dinner.

Stir fried chye sim

It was an enjoyable and delicious dinner.   

Dancing fish restaurant - Michelin Bib Gourmand

Kuala Lumpur - Dancing fish is considered one of Malaysia top 20 restaurants as recognised by CNN Food awards.  Dancing fish has also won numerous awards and accolades by Malaysia tourism award, etc.  So, I had to go to taste what so special about their food and especially their signature 'Dancing fish'.

Address:  Lot T120, T121 & T122, 3F, Bangsar Shopping Centre, 285 Jalan Maarof, Bangsar, Kuala Lumpur, 59000, Malaysia

Only in 2023, the inaugural Michelin guide - Dancing fish restaurant was awarded the Bib Gourmand. 

Donny and me

Apetitizer dish

Seafood satay, Chicken satay, 4 pieces of taufu and a small salad dish.

Gulai Pucuk Paku

Pucuk Paku is Malay for edible Jungle fern sprouts.  It was a delicious dish with rich coconut milk.

Signature Dancing fish

This is a common Sundanese dish in Indonesia - called Ikan goreng Gurame.   It is actually Tilapia type of fish - there are hundred variants of this Tilapia species.

Soup Buntut

Soup Buntut is Oxtail soup.  It taste much delicious in Indonesia - I missed the Indonesian Soup buntut.  

Rolled ice-cream @ Bangsar Shopping Centre

Kuala Lumpur - A small ice cream stall had a novelty called 'rolled ice-cream',   I had to find on the internet what was this type of ice-cream and it turned out to be called 'rolled ice-cream' or also called 'Thai rolled ice-cream'.  Created in Thailand and now a world-wide ice-cream novelty.

Dragon fruit and mango

The dragon fruit and mango was sliced and cut into tiny pieces and the milk and cream pour over to make the ice cream.   Stir and stired till it is a thin slice on top of the -50 degrees metal plate.

Then the 5 rolled up ice-cream is put into a cup.  The taste is rich and creamy unlike usual ice cream.