In HK, there are restaurants literally everywhere. If you
look around, you can find almost any food you want in the world at any budget –
you can get lunch of a big box of egg-fried rice with some tasty pork for about
£1.80 near our flat, right up to meals in swanky hotels that cost £100s. Plus,
eating out here does not immediately mean ‘unhealthy’. After all, a bowl of
rice topped with some meat isn’t actually all that bad for you.
So, the temptation that most expats give in to is to eat out
pretty much all the time. Claire and I have given in to this a shocking amount
in these first weeks. In our defence, we were also pushed by high supermarket
prices, our limited kitchenette, and our hatred of the weird
burns-everything-the-moment-you-turn-it-on tendencies of our induction cooker.However, this week we resolved to be better, and see if it is possible to eat in every night. This is partly an experiment in how this affects our day-to-day lives, and partly to see how much cheaper it works out.
So this is why today’s picture is simply of a mushroom. One odd thing visitors here will notice is the sheer array of types of mushroom stocked in every supermarket. This type is not only very tasty, but also has an odd surprise. Looks like hundreds of tiny mushrooms right? Wrong! All of the small growths here sterm out of one enormous root below. Weird, eh?
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