Thursday, January 16, 2014

Day 1 - The 4 hour brunch

So we had finally made it to Hong Kong and got some sleep. We were so tired that we actually slept through the night. After we woke up Drew and Mo took us to a brunch at a hotel. We took a cab there which was really very cheap. It's $7.75 in Hong Kong dollars to $1 in the US. Cab fare starts at $22 HKD and then goes up by $1.6. I think our first cab was around $50 HKD, which is a little over $6 in USD, and you don't tip. All in all a pretty good deal.

Brunch lasted from 11:30am to 3pm and included champagne, mimosas, and Bellini's. It was more of a Western style brunch so it had salads, raw seafood, grilled food like lamb and calamari, and lots of desserts. We ate and chatted for hours. The calamari was my favorite, followed by the lamb with a mint jelly sauce. They also had these Moreton Bay Bugs - they looked like little lobsters and tasted pretty similar.


After brunch we came back to their apartment and watched Avatar on Drew and Mo's 3D TV. We were so full from brunch we didn't eat for the rest of the day. After a few rounds of euchre we called it a day and went to sleep.

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