China Cafe

After a long and uncomfortable winter, Vasco is out for his adventure again! This year Alice is organizing an 'ice-cafe' (冰室) tour. Ice-cafe is a Hong Kong style diner. We decided on ice-cafe to try different old-fashioned Hong Kong 'fastfood'. Many ice cafes are 40+ years old!

First stop: China Cafe in Mongkok. It is tucked away in the middle of the Mongkok wet market. The food is great, Alice had a snow veggie/meat fried noodle (very yummy), PB had French toast, BBQ pork/egg sandwich, and 'Phoenix Egg Custard', KB had fried rice. Alice had to say that the yingyang was not that great.

But the 'Phoenix Egg Custard' was really fun. You take a steaming hot bowl of Bird's Custard, throw in a raw egg, and you have a great bowl of 'Phoenix Egg Custard'! Vasco loves the whole place with the colorful wall tiles! And he could pretend that he was in Johnnie To's PTU.

Sandwich

Vasco found something quite strange today: look at the photo. Three buildings: one Taoist temple, one love hotel, and one Korean Christian church.
This must be the strangest building sandwich!

Vasco and the Giant Scarab

Vasco made a bold move to sit in front of the Giant Scarab in the British Museum. It was a very brief visit of just walking around the ground floor. Alice was carrying a very heavy backpack, so she didn't want to walk at all.

Vasco found some peas

Vasco found some peas on his way to S-Bahn! 2 weeks ago the stripe of side-walk was covered with beautiful white flower. Then Alice discovered some suspicious looking plants, which looked like they were peas. They went out again yesterday morning to prove that those were really peas! A whole block of peas! Those peas are 毛豆 in Shanghainese.

Skateboarding horse

After the car accident, Vasco attempted to tame a horse. He put the horse on a skateboard...result? Vasco and the horse went happily around the block!

Vasco's new car

Vasco went out with Alice in search for doors. But Vasco had other thing on his mind! He just found a new red race car outside a toy shop! Unfortunately, Vasco is not very good at driving, he looks like he is heading towards a free fall!!!!!

Strawberry, taste of the summer

Vasco really loves this big box of strawberries. They are not as big as the ones you can get from Hong Kong, but they sure taste like real strawberries! Alice bought pudding to go with the sweet and fragrant strawberries. A really yummy dinner!