Wooden heads, chien noir

Cava

I've heard quite a bit about this place. My parents were pleased with the dim-sum style of food. I was happy with the 1000 point table on opentable. My parents even claimed it was better than canoe (it was certainly more expensive, which I didn't expect). We chose the option where they would just being us random food so we wouldn't have to go through the menu. I did like that, and we were exposed to foie gras, scallops, eggplant, kingfish, veal, beef, venison.

Consolation prize.

Mine is burgundy. Muhaha

Chicken and Veges

Sima sushi chicken teriyaki

The chicken is perfectly cooked and lie juicy in the well flavored teriyaki sauce.

Back to Kingston

Hong Kong. 15 hour flight to come.

They say Cathay pacific has some more "intangible" benefits. But their planes don't look so homely.

Hong Kong - the peak

The last thing to do in Hong Kong is to take the tram up to the peak. The view is quite nice.

Too sick to drink

There is a street in Hong Kong dominated by bars and foreigners.

Afternoon tea at Joel Robuchon

The French know how to make english tea.

Hong kong dim sum: $2-3 michelin star restaurant

The sweet pork buns were worth the 4 hour wait. The rest not so much.

Australian beef at a Japanese restaurant, hong kong

Not sure what this says

Shanghai pork buns

Jean George in shanghai

I include the photos from the new York location in the trump hotel. I went this summer. The $100 prix fixe (650rmb) includes 3 courses and four desserts (below).

Shanghai in the morning

With a slight fog, the high rises disappear into the sky

Shanghai feels like home

Shanghai is a first class city with scifi buildings on one side of the river and (beautiful) western architecture on the other. Exchange students who choose shanghai will feel quite at home. They can frequent the little village I went to last night (Xin she jie) where there are no Chinese characters to be found and where you can comfortably speak in English. The stores resemble high end stores in Canada, where not-as-well-known brands like true religion dominate the standard Veblen variety (prada/Armani/Gucci). The beers are all on tap (with one bar owned by Pauliner, brewed in the back instead of imported from Germany). It was nice to see some rather obscure "brands" make it to the forefront. Like stonegrill, a higher end Korean barbecue where a hot stone is the platform and on top are venison, bison, and other game. I went to the Toronto location with a groupon (and didn't think much of it) but surprisingly it is in shanghai too.

Ritz Carlton shanghai

For the first time in a week, I flip on the TV and the bloomberg channel comes up (In English!)

On tap beer. Finally.

There is a strong tradition of perfect competition. Streets are lined with non differentiated shops. Around a particular lake where the young (and relatively well off) frequent, there are at least 20 bars that sell the same thing. But no on tap beer. But finally, at the end of everything is what I was looking for.

Beijing lattes