It's Like We Know What We Are Doing

Saturday, November 26 th Kat was a good addition to this trip.   She can keep up with our eating game.   And she was also totally down with Adele and my plan of eating our way through the San Pelligrino Top 50 list. We settled on the Wine Lunch at Amber, #20 in the world.  Amber is located in the Landmark Mandarin Oriental Hotel off of the Central subway stop on Hong Kong Island. The place setting was lovely The Wine Lunch costs HKD$928 plus a 10% service charge.  This equals about USD$120, so not overly crazy.  The lunch included five courses and four glasses of wine.  It was a rainy day in Hong Kong.  And we were more than happy to spend almost four hours eating and drinking.  Seriously.  We were one of the first people to arrive for lunch.  And we were the last people to leave lunch.  So did we enjoy our meal??  Yeah.  I'd say so. Amuse Bouche – We had three items that I can’t en...

Sunday, November 27 th We had no plan going into Macau other than "we are going to Macau." This is not normally something I’d advise someone to do.   Let alone something I’d do to myself.   But there we were, on a hydrofoil traveling from Hong Kong to Macau, with NO PLAN in place. Getting to Macau took a bit longer than we had expected.   The TurboJet Hydrofoil left from Hong Kong (or Kowloon) every 15-30 minutes.   When we arrived at the ferry terminal, we started with Starbucks.   Come on.   I’m no animal.   We didn’t have much in the way of serious food in the fridge at the apartment and I have a tendency to get motion sick when on a boat outside of a river or a harbor.   Having my stomach filled with chai-fueled goodness would be helpful.   Even if the chai is not quite the chai we have at home.   Side note, Starbucks chai in Hong Kong is, well…not great.   But I drank it multiple times because, chai. Post...