Wonderful food descriptions from Hong Kong - yum.

An hour and 45 min taxi ride??? I'm sure you'll tell us all about it.

(My computer isn't having any trouble loading this thread, but if you want to break it into two parts, this may be the logical place to do it.)

I'm not having any trouble with the length of this thread either, actually loving every minute of this.

Aloha!

Just thought that later when people click on Thailand, for example, do they really want to wade through all this China stuff?

I'd vote for breaking it, and this is the logical place to do it. Put a forward link here, and a backward link there, and people should have no problem if they want to read both.

Partick, I think you're right. I'll ask for the tags to be changed so this thread is just China and Japan. Tag the next one Cambodia, Thailand, Laos.

Oh, NeoPatrick, what a wonderful report which I’m thoroughly enjoying. I especially enjoyed Changsha because it seems like a place that I too would enjoy, the idea of being among the real people of any given country away from all the tourists. My mouth was watering reading about your dinner at Chez Patrick and dim sum at Cuisine, Cuisine in Hong Kong. I estimate it will be another year-half before I make my way to Asia, but I definitely keep your report handy.

Looking forward to reading more.

jdc

I think it would be good to end with the China, Kyoto and Hong Kong portion and starting a new report of Thailand, Cambodia, and Laos, although I had no problem with it's length.

jdc

sure, keep it all on the same

Love reading this, but I agree that breaking it up would be easier for people to find places they may be interested in. I've been reading along but am really waiting for Laos, VN and Cambodia

Interesting!.

Patrick am still loving your report. What a fitting way for Lee to return to some of his favorite places. He was such a sweet man.

The harbour is shrinking indeed. You see how densely populated the place is. HK needs every bit of land they can squeeze out of the place.
Three days is not doing HK justice. Just the food alone deserves longer than that.
Do Chinese do cheese? Not exactly. The closest would be fermanted bean curd cubes that come in white or red. You wouldn't eat them as is as they are very salty. The red ones are used to braise meat (mostly pork) and white one vegetables. Next time when you go to a Chinese restaurant, see if they have 'saute morning glory with fermanted bean curd and chili'. Happens to be one of my favorite.

mohan, I bet you never went to Changsha, where the most popular delicacy is "stinky tofu" -- yep that's what they call it. And it's aptly named. You can smell it when you walk near it, and you hope no one near you in a restaurant orders it. It ain't a pretty smell, let me tell you.

Patrick: It's great to see you're on the road again! I've just read this whole thread which is fascinating and hoping for more. Just let us know where it will be. You are such a good traveler, and I'm impressed with the way you see and search the world.

Waiting for more, either here or a new thread!

Hmmmm, I hope Patrick is okay, I don't see anything recent or a new thread and he was posting this in fairly real time. I hope he is just having too much fun to get to a computer....

He has posted on the new airport rail service and on the thread about watching soccer. He's fine. But I agree, I am waiting for his trip report to continue.
Carol

If he's on the OAT portion of the trip there will be little time/opportunity for posting in my experience (which is limited). Can't wait to hear about the rest of the trip!

NeoPatrick, Changsha I 've never been, smelly tofu I had plenty. How? I used to live in HK many moons ago. A delicacy? not exactly. It's a peasant food that was plentiful in the 70's but slowly disappearing. It's an acquired smell like durians. It's really quite good with the sweet and hot sauce when it's piping hot. You should have some.

I am in Bangkok, having a great time, but have been sort of waiting to do the whole Bangkok experience in one post. And yes, I will be starting a new thread for that along with Cambodia, Laos, and northern Thailand -- but will link it from here.