Grand Opening Party at the Mira Hotel

Thursday was the opening party of the Mira hotel, with the red carpet at the entrance, some stars and starlets and lost of good food, drinks and entertainment.

This was the program/ Menue of the evening ;)

The hotel itself is impressive. 4 restaurants, 2 bars and - very rare in HK - even one open air lounge.

We got the best food; beijing duck, lobster soup, lamb...

The roof decoration of the french restaurant

And heres my new flat (I wish ...). Its a suite with bacony and jacuzzi.

My new bedroom.. :)

The chocolate buffet in the ballroom

And special guest Katy Perry.

Kowloon city

Kowloon City is an other old quarter with lots of good thai restaurants, markets and outlet shops and its nice for a sunday afternoon city hiking.
Btw... CITY HIKING its a term i inventet for me, because i like to walk around in unknown old parts of HK and other towns for hours...

ok.. no explanation needed; the common old buildings and street restaurants. But every time different...

This is a street furtune teller...

At the market: not sure, if this are parts of a shark...

... very fresh vegetable...

... and here: chicken (feets). The Ladie explainet, that the black chicken is only for the soup....

... and outside its white.

Have a look at the sign above :)

Who can guess, what is this? Its the inside of a fish head!

Baby Calamaris

... thats it for today. We have again Typhoon Nr. 8 (remember... when number 8 is set, the office is closed). Unfortunately its AGAIN in the evening; means no free extra day.

The wind this time is really scary and I checked already 3 times, if my bathroom window is still ok.

Spin Expo in Shanghai

Again Shanghai...
I was 2 days at the Shanghai Spin Expo and it was so good to meet friends and ex collegues after so long time.

People at the trend forum

Antjes collection at the fashion show!!!

Italien lunch in Shanghai at the Spin Expo...

The 3 JULIAS

Jule came from Koeln!!!

When we 3 left Switzerland (Antje to Shanghai, Julia to Koeln and me to HK), I didnt expect, we would meet so often. Well... its not often, but textile world is small and so we are able to meet at exhibitions.

Eddie, Matsura san and Antje at the Stoll booth...

And here again: Shanghai by night.
This is the famous IFC Tower; we only call it bottle opener.

And the amazing Grand Hyatt Hotel in the Jin Mao tower...

... with the bar "cloude nine" at the 87. floor. Here the view from the bar.

BBQ in Shek O

Last Sunday at the Shek O beach: we went there for BBQ; Oliver brought original
german sausages, a group of very nice HK people left us a box full of meat and fishballs when they finished their BBQ because earlier they got one of the original german sausages to taste :)

Weather was good, happy people around, weird old italien music from an i pod, german sausages and chinese fishballs on the grill...
Was a perfect day and I m getting lazy with taking pictures. Only took a video; but it shows the atmosphere better then 100 pics..

cooking in Hong Kong

WARNING!!! If you have a sensitiv stormach, please dont continue......

How to cook a delicious frog dish:

1. Go to the market and select some fat healthy frogs.

2. The nice salesman will kill them for you and remove the parts, you dont like to eat.

3. Back at home, wash them....

... and remove some parts like the fingers and the head.

4. heat some oil in the wok, put in fresh ginger first and few minutes later put in the frogmeat.

5. Add the white part of the fresh spring onion.

6. Cook all together for 10 min and add some tomatos in the end, serve it in a nice bowl.

7. The meat is nice and tender and taste like chicken/fish.

Delicious!!!!

Seefood in Sai Kung and Po Toi O

My last weekend was mainly about the sea, seafood, villages at the sea.....
It was so hot, so it was the best place to stay.
Saturday evening I was with friends in Sai Kung for seafood.
Let me show you some:

This is a real animal; probably from earth. I dont know, what parts you can eat but sure you can make weapons or other things out of it. We didn't try this one.... this time.

Another version of "message in the bottle". The one, who can guess how this came into the bottle wins a dinner in Sai Kung ;)

Ok now, this was our dinner, its kind of mussel I guess (according to the shell), very tasty and I m glad I didnt see it alive.

Here - very decadent - a whole lobster with pasta and cheese sauce.

And this is the table after dinner...

On Sunday I went to a place I was one time with friends for dinner. Its Po Toi O, a small village near Sai Kung.
To get there is easy: take the MTR to Po Lam and then minibus Nr. 16 to the end.
Nice quiet village, good seafood and a golf course behind the village.