I'm on a semi-retired models quest to eat my way through Hong Kong or any other city I travel to
With the help of food bloggers
I want to learn more about the culture meet new people and discover exciting new tastes in the places I am in
On today's episode we're going to a food mall
Kwai Chung Plaza is a famous mall full of delicious and cheap meals and snacks
The only issue is there's a lot and it's always changing
This place is kind of like a maze all different shops
electronics, fashion, lingerie
Cosmetics all mixed with amazing food
if you head here be sure to have some cash
a couple hours to kill and an empty stomach
First I met up with local food blogger and singer Yuki at a Starbucks nearby
please get a tall iced coffee and
Y: Ice shaken tea lemonade. T: Food? Y: I'm okay
Y:We're gonna eat. T: Yeah, what am I thinking?
T: I got it. Y: You sure? T: yeah
I'm your sugar mama today
So you sing as well
I do I have some hit songs on youtube.
Y: Do you write your own songs? T: I write my own song
Let's do a duet today sure what's a good song to do it
Say something I'm given up on you
And with that introduction we were acquainted
we sat down with some coffee to chat about where we were going
There's always something new and today is a perfect day to do it
because it's pouring rain outside, and there's it's like storming
So we're gonna be indoors all day
eating
nothing better than that
Talking alright, so how long have you been a foodie on Instagram.
I think around
Five six years. Oh, wow. Yeah first of all I love my food
When I started using Instagram
Thought is I think it's fun to use it, but I didn't like to post selfie every day
But I eat every day, so I would like to like share what I ate today, yeah
My friends
Somehow some friends of people starts following me
Yeah, what's your favorite restaurant in Hong Kong
you like spicy chicken pot the soup is numbing and spicy, a szechuan style one
Then with no set plan really
but a few hours to spare and a cup of coffee in our stomach we headed off to Kwai Chung Plaza
I can smell all the smells there's a lot of smells here?
Refreshing
Just the picture excited me
So I think this is the
street food kind of alley oh
Yeah, we decided to start with numbing Sichuan spicy soup it comes with your choice of noodles and toppings
Do you like potato noodle?
I've never tried potato noodles. Should we try? Are they good?
Yeah, it's very chewy, and bouncy like springy.
We just got our first item of the day
it's potato noodles in a Szechuan spicy soup base
Numbing spicy?
sour and spicy
sour and spicy with some fish balls and fish spring rolls, they're called
This is what I love about Hong Kong when you eat at those local restaurants
you share tables with strangers. Like a Ledge
Almost feel like it would be better to put it right here. And then knee
Should we try?
Oh, they're very sticky very squishy like you said
good luck. Go.
okay. There you go
Do you like it
The noodles are so unique.
Yes, it doesn't taste like potato, but it's like super squishy and i like the texture.
And the sauce, the soup, the spice is perfect
it's spicy, but not too overwhelming because we got the smallest amount
Y: I love potato noodles. T: so delicious.
I think this is my new favourite type of noodle.
This is call Sour Spicy noodle
T: Fun is a noodle. Y:Yes. Fun is noodles. Suen is sour
Y: Lart is spicy. T: sour spicy noodle
T: Can't get this one. Y: This is a very dangerous noodle
I could eat this soup every day. There's so many different combinations. You can make in soup bases
I love hotpot or any of anything like this
You love your Chinese food, yeah
Next on our rader is cold noodle this is a favorite after school or work snack amongst locals
It's essentially cold noodles with sauce and toppings in a bag
After choosing rice noodles a mixture of garlic and spicy sauce
and a few toppings we were served our next snack
All right. Let's try
Do most of these taste the same
no matter where you get it
pretty much because that's the sauce is the same sauce
Taste of childhood
These are hard to. It is not really a chopstick, it's like a toothpick
Do you like the sauce
I know that sauce is like the one in the Japanese section of the sushi you get the little
these things.
Yes,
and marinated, it taste like that
so good, oh yeah I love these
It's like a refreshing salad, but with non salad ingredients. like nothing salad
T: Delicious. Y: it's so cheap
I would be tempted though to just eat it like this
Just pour it down my throat does it only do that
I want to see you do that
Hmm much faster
after funneling our cold noodles we search for our next snack
Thats the rollie ice cream
I never tried it.
Blue is vanilla. T: Oh okay Y: What is the favour of white?
Oh, this is yogurt. Okay
Oh, so satisfying
I'm so excited. I don't know what to expect, have you trying anything like this?
Yes. I have once in Thailand
It's like nothing
Y: Really? T: like nothing with a slight banana.
Y: Let me try. T: It's not real ice cream.
Yeah, you are right
The vanilla has no flavor.
There is no vanilla
It tastes like nothing.
It's like, I'm eating ice
It's purely for Instagram
Instagram ten out of a ten tastes
Three
I want to get this for Sharla.
We have the cactus thing we always make each other poke cactus
That sounds like a weird contest
With one disappointment we were determined to end the day with something extra tasty
We shared a fresh watermelon drink and then stumbled upon the most delicious amazingly smelling omlette ever
Y: And corn as well? T: sure yeah
Yeah, it smells so good and the egg looks so like fluffy but creamy somehow
So you can choose your topping it already have cheese and corn inside
But we chose mushroom looking like the osaka pancake with that called,
Okonomiyaki
Yeah, yeah, yeah exactly looks like that, but that's a pancake part
It is very good
So creamy, it's definitely not a japanese-style omelette because it tastes more French.
Like super creamy
It's really good
Not too cheesy, just like a nice light cheese flavor.
Yeah like that is not too cheesy, so it's not too feeling yeah
I don't really like these actually
You don't like these?
You can eat them all
Come to mama
So this is your favorite of the day, yeah
Mine is a tie.
This and the numbing potato noodle soup
this one tastes a bit more Western for me, yeah
Style which is good, but when I come to somewhere like this.
I think I really want to eat the like local hong kong street version
But there is still delicious.
See there's a fine line
Yeah
Don't cross it
so we have a one last thing to eat
something caught my eye earlier upstairs the Pikachu cotton candy
So we're gonna go up and have that
For dessert know as our second dessert of the day yes
Thank you
It's so cute
Yeah, should we eat start with the ear?
I'm wondering what cotton candy tastes like with seaweed
so it's a weird combination
I don't hate it.
It's like sweet salty.
Y: Yeah. It's funny. It's interesting, but not. T: I don't hate it. Yeah
And it's all really sticks to your teeth this sheep
This cheek
T: That one's good. Y: You went for the cheek
All right, so we're all finished for our food journey for today. I really enjoyed the shopping mall
It's a good mix of food. It wasn't just Hong Kong local food. There was like Japanese, Thai, Malaysian. It was
Yeah, a good mixture of all different snacks, and I feel like it's a perfect place to come on a rainy day
Or if it's too hot inside you can spend the day in there like shopping trying different foods
which one is your favourite
my favourite was the
First the Sichuan potato noodles, and I really love the potato noodles
I was the first time I tried them, and I thought it was the perfect snack for today. It's very comforting warm
All the flavors. I also loved the egg omelette.
my favorite is to take omelet and my second is the potato noodle.
Okay, we both like the same thing same thing mmm all right.
so thank you so much Yuki.
Thank you for having me
And I am trying to get her to start a YouTube channel
because she has an amazing personality and we clicked really well actually
I feel like I'm gonna. See you again if you want to
I want to
I will start a YouTube channel, can you sing?
oh? Yeah, we can do singing covers on my YouTube on your YouTube.
So thank you guys for watching