Day Three - chicken feet

We are meeting with 3 additional suppliers today in Hong Kong. (It is interesting to note that I have not met anyone in any of our meetings that is left-handed) When our first meeting was over, the supplier took us out to lunch at a very nice Chinese Seafood restaurant. I am starting to get used to chop sticks but apparently the waitress at the restaurant didn’t think so because she brought me a fork! Meals with suppliers are interesting because they just order a ton of food and then we just try a little of everything. Today it was mostly chicken, pork and beef dishes but I did try some squid and an entire fried chicken’s foot. The funny part it that they guy I was traveling with said to eat the entire thing because the bones are really just tough cartilage but after crunching through it and washing it down with a lot of Coke, I noticed that all the locals had little bones on their plates…similar to how we eat Chicken wings. So far, no side affects but I will keep you posted. This is a picture of me eating a chicken's foot!


Tonight we went out to dinner with one of our co-workers who is native to Hong Kong along with his wife. We went to a restaurant famous for Roasted Goose called Chan Kee which is in the city/area of Hong Kong called Shan Tseng. The goose got brought to the table in one piece, head and all! It tasted pretty good…I thought a lot like beef. The meal also included a dish of broccoli & scallops, a dish of chicken and another of beef. For dessert we went to a famous place around the corner called Lucky Dessert. Every dessert on the menu had some type of fruit in it….not you typical American desserts of ice cream, cakes or pies. Once again, we ordered 4 things and we all got a little taste of each. The mango pancake was my favorite along with the baked banana.

We have the weekend to see the sights in Hong Kong and to do a little shopping (especially to make up for missing Mother's Day)!