New Nepal Post and fort pictures

Day 11 in Nepal



Last Thursday I met Katy in Tung Chung for Lunch and after our Thai meal we went and explored an old nearby fort.
I forgot to upload the photos before, but I finally got to it now.

DrB Nepal Day 9

http://drbnepal.blogspot.com/2010/02/day-9-february-7-2010-arrival.html

New Nepal Post

DrB Nepal Day 6

DrB Nepal

Another post is up

http://drbnepal.blogspot.com/2010/02/day-3-february-1-2010-kathmandu.html

Also take a look at these spices
Asafoetida
Fennel
Garam Masala
Gram Flour

A new blog

It will only be for my Nepal stuff.  I just created it so I can start uploading my trip journal and pictures from my Nepal trip last year and I'll share the link with Khem and all his friends too.

http://drbnepal.blogspot.com/

First Post is up
http://drbnepal.blogspot.com/2011/01/day-1-january-30-2010-hong-kong-to.html 
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Oh Hong Hong...

This place never ceases to amaze me...

I'm writing this on the ferry back to Mui Wo.

Mobile Blogging from here.

I went into the city today as Katy brought Jonathan to his Saturday lessons. I started on a wild Chinese goose chase to locate the newly relocated Apple service center to fix my iPood :).....again...

Ultimately, I found out where a bus I often take terminates, an amazingly beautiful and massive park in the middle of causeway bay (victoria park), and I partook in wandering and wandering and sweating and sweating in the 90 degree heat.  Luckinly,  I wasn't on a time schedule and I was so surprised at all the cool new places I found.

I located the building, only to walk around it multiple times.  However, I was able to reconnect to my long lost pal, good ol' pccw hotspot. He's never too far away. I loaded up apple's webpage and got a page with the address in English and Chinese and showed it to the doorman of the building, after almost 3 hours of traveling and searching I found the place on the 36th floor and took a number.

After a short talk with an attendant, she assured me that Steve Jobs would personally fly my replacement iPod in from Singapore and drop it off at the house in his iMobile powered completely off the cumulative energy of Apple owners self-righteousness. She also said that he'd throw in an upgrade to the 160gb model and an iPhone 4. You know, since we are old pals and all...

I then proceeded to walk to Wan Chai looking for a place to exchange my 'merica bux$

I ended up finding a surprising store in my travels; a hardware store in the middle of the city. It had so much more useful stuff than any other place I've been to in Hong Kong. I dare say it is my favorite store in the big HK. I was able to pick up a bunch of knick-knacks that have been frustrating me because I couldn't find them. These include a screw driver, dish towels, putty knife, blu-tac, cotton twine, balloon animals, thermos' plus much much more. I definitely need to go back.

I stumbled into a computer center investigating reports of my digital camera being there, but after scouring the entire place someone told me it "just left." After a little "persuasion" they said it actually went to the other computer center in Wan Chai. Thus, I was compelled to give chase. I scrambled to and through everything in the other store trying keep my mind from exploding with sheer awesomeness at the sights seen within. However, my camera continued to elude me, remaining free for this day...

I found an exchange place with a good rate and then took the tram to central and found an HSBC cash machine to eat my newly acquired pink bill$. then I scrambled to the pier and got a bowl of beef brisket soup and boiled lettuce to go on the ferry with. Now I'm writing the post high on MSG, salt, soy, and noodles. Looks like the ferry has arrived, time to meet Khem at his new place in Pui O...

[Posted with iBlogger from my iPhone]

Goat Party Cancelled

All week we were planning on getting a whole goat to cook up on the roof of our flat.  I was collecting money 100 HKD from each person and last night Khem and I were going to go get it and bring it back.  However, after Chinese New Year the slaughterhouse was out of them I guess so we tried to make other plans.  It's frustrating, we had at least 15 confirm to come and I had collected money from almost half. Oh well, next time

Last night we were trying to get together a plan for acquiring some momos and fresh chicken.  Again this plan fell through, Khem is working today, but everyone else is off, so there is no one to buy any of the stuff for us.  We'll have to do it after everyone gets off work tomorrow, it should be fine.  We only have a half day tomorrow, I'm hoping Khem can get the food and stuff without any help because no one will be able to go into Jordan to get any of the Nepalese food and help him bring it back.

In other news Jer and Snowy are getting married

Dim Sum

Dim Sum in the city was pretty awesome on Sunday. You can have hundreds of different varieties of mini-portions of stuff.

Sunday was the most humid/muggy day I've experienced so far in Hong Kong. It was probably in the lower 80s with around 90% humidity. Walking around the city was quite the experience, you get short little blasts of cold air every once in a while as you pass the shops.

We played music for quite a while in an area on one of the busy streets and then had some dinner.

Last night was Bryan's last night in Hong Kong (for a while?) and he wanted some Nepali momo








1 Bus Ride to Mui Wo $3.2 HKD
1 Fast Ferry Ride to Central $25.50 HKD
1 Star Ferry from Central across to Kowloon/mainland $1.8 HKD
1 MTR ride from Tsim Sha Tsui to Jordan $3.8 HKD

Walking for an hour around the streets of Jordan at 11pm looking for "that one place" that sells momo: priceless

We found "the place" but it was closed, but we did find another place that sells momo, it was a small little place, but was really nice. We overran them with orders I think, they were very nice. I don't think they get a lot of of Westerners in there or at least not ones that like to talk or are friendly like us.

We bought 4 platters of momo, a chicken curry, a boiled potato curry (alum dum), and some really spicey cilantro nacho dish that I forgot the name of.

I really enjoy Nepalese food, it's definitely one of my favorite things to eat here in Hong Kong.

Namaste, Happy 2066!

The Nepalese New Year was pretty awesome, we got there a little late so we only saw 3 monkeys instead of the dozens last time.

The usual bags and bags of chicken wings, pork chops, and hotdogs were brought out once we got a barbecue pit. Along with some Baji and some really great Nepalese pickle sauce.

I ate so much, everything was really great



The last two days were pretty uneventful just playing and listening to a lot of music, I really enjoy these down times as I can always find ways to keep myself occupied. Now that Austin has given me a new direction to go in banjo playing I won't be bored for a while.

Probably will be camping out at Tai Long Won again this weekend, not 100% sure though.

Word is circulating about my leet computer skills so I have a little bit of work tomorrow for some supplemental income.

Call Me Trendy

I broke down and bought an iPod last week and as you can see at the top of the page is my Twitter feed, so I can give small updates a little more often. Since I don't always have the time/energy/motivation to sit down a write a full post I was thinking I could write some Tweets every once in a while to show what I'm up to. I still want to try to make a new post 2-3+ times per week, we'll see how this goes. Next up on the list buying some Abercrombie polo shirts and popping the collar.

I also wanted to ask anyone reading if they had any specific questions about anything in Hong Kong or something they would like to see more written about. Just write a comment and I'll see what I can do.

I'm excited for tomorrow, it's Nepalese new year hosted by Khem in the New Territories at Monkey Hill, I've been expanding my stomach in preparation. I'm thinking I'll go for 5 pounds of grilled meat tomorrow...

Nepalese Barbecue

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This is where I went today for a Nepalese party, at a park in The New Territories. I think I ate like 5 lbs of beef, chicken, and pork from the barbecue. I'm glad Khem invited us, it was pretty awesome.