Fred in Hong Kong 08: Mon 25 - Uncle Man, Bigma and the Chau's

Bit of a mixed day this one. A combination of camera stuff buying, meeting relatives- long lost and distant - and as usual the eating of good food which because this is Hong Kong comes in all sorts of guises from the vaguely familiar to the totally outlandish.

First up was breakfast which was taken on the hoof so to speak from a little stall just round the cornerfrom the hotel - the middle one of the three in the photo below:-

It was the classic Chiu Cheung Fun- plain steamed rice roll slathered in a mixture of soy, sesame sauce and hoi sin sauce and topped with sesame seeds

I met up with my Uncle Man (aka Archie) whom I had not seen for at least 12 years and in many ways he is the man responsible for passion for photography having taught memuch when I was a child and spent many a long summer on holiday in Hong Kong. Anyway enough of the nostalgia - this is now and the mission of the morning was a bit of camera stuff shopping in Mong Kok and a chin wag and catch up over a dim sum lunch

We visited famous Wing Shing Camera Shop in Mong Kok and ended up purcjasing the following:-

1. Sigma 50-500 EX DG APO HSM lens aka the BIGMA
2. Hoya 86mm UV filter for the above
3. Spare Battery for my Nikon S510
4. Manfrotto Monopod - (gift for Uncle Man)
5. Manfrotto Quick Release Monopod Head - for me
6. Case for my G7

Shopping done we headed to Ghangzhou DimSum restaurant which yielded some fine dim sum as we chatted over time old and new

Gwuan Tong Gau - Supreme Soup Dumping which included a whole dried scallop

Har Gau Wong - prawn dumpling but not as we know it :-)

Uncle Man

Meen Fa Kai - Chicken with Fish Maw and a slice of Abalone

Jing Lor bak Go - steamed turnip pudding with conpoy

Fish head with beancurd dim sum

The afernoon was spent at Wanchai Computer Mall and just outside was an Ngau Jap (beef offal) vendor doing a roaring trade in this most ethnic of Hong kong specialities born out of the days of poverty when the prime cuts when to the feudal Lords and the offal was all that was left for the plebs like you and me.

One Ngau Jap Vendor

One tub of the unmentionable bits of a cow

So the veggies amongst us don't lose out - a tub of braised wheat gluten with sate sauce

Dinner in the evening was to be with sister and brother Pearl and Eddie Chau at Wu Kong Shanghainese restaurant in Times Square. It was a pleasent evening and the food wasn't bad either.