Food: June 26-27

There's something delightfully wrong about a full plate of rice and meat that costs only $2AU on campus. There's also something delightfully wrong about a fried chicken's head:

(nobody touched it)

Two nights ago, the summer school students attended a rather fancy, ten course seafood dinner replete with the staple of all Chinese meals: sweet and sour pork and too many dishes with corn. Even though I wasn't meant to be there (I'm not an ISS student, technically, so I had to pay up front), much fun was had by all, except when the chicken head came out! The restaurant was in Tsuen Wan, which is above Kowloon and slightly to the West. Google-map it!

Food on the campus itself ranges from bearable to outright strange. As I mentioned before, everything is dirt, dirt cheap. A burger costs close to $2, a good noodle soup: $3, a nice coffee...does not exist. The kitchen staff use this horrible condensed milk with all tea and coffee, which gives the drink a consistency like sludge. Not a vacation for the taste buds, I can assure you.

But then there's genuinely nice food:

Like this mango pancake with cream and mango, and a side of blueberry icecream

Or this Vietnamese prawn dish I had last night

Or this Sushi platter I had last night (I had two dinners. After bumping into a group of ISS students in Mong Kok, I decided to tag along. Don't worry, Jono, Hukuya is better!)

And these cotton candy bunnies, in the same restaurant that served the chicken head.

And genuinely nice company also helps:

Dinner last night

Desert the night before, after our ten course meal.

Tomorrow, I'll show you around the labs. For now, I'm about to head into the City in search for the perfect chicken's head.