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Date: 17 of June. Located in the areas of Jordan and Yau Ma Tei , not far from CityU, there is a busy night market in Temple Street . Besides the manifold goods being sold at the market, Chinese opera singers and fortune-tellers perform their trades and a number of side street eateries offer inexpensive seafood dishes. Price should be around HK$100. Number of fellow dinners: 8. To contact Massi, email him to m.pontil@cs.ucl.ac.uk ---------------------------- • Andrea Caponetto will tour people to the Delhi Mess at the Chungking Mansion . Date: 20 of June. At the heart of one of the turistic districts of Hong Kong, surrounded by prime property, stands the Chungking Mansion , a run down building featured in the cult movie Chungking Express by Wong Kar-Wai. In its maze of blocks and corridors one can find all the cuisine varieties of the Indian subcontinent. The Delhi Mess is among the best restaurants there. Do not expect a fancy décor, just great Indian cuisine. Price is between HK$ 60 and HK$ 100. Number of fellow dinners: 8. To contact Andrea, email him to caponnet@cityu.edu.hk ----------------------------- • Jonathan Wylie proposes a Budhist private kitchen in Hong Kong Island . Date: 24 of June. A unique vegetarian set dinner in a small restaurant run by a Buddhist organization. The set dinner contains approximately 10 courses that represent the full range of Chinese vegetarian food. Price per person is HK$ 200. Number of fellow dinners: 8. To join Jonathan's dinner, write an email to lkwong@cityu.edu.hk ------------------------------- • Martin Lotz volunteered to show FoCM participants a Dai Pai Dong near CityU. Date: 25 of June. Eating out is a common practice in Hong Kong . Needless to say, to be able to do so on a daily basis, niceties such as starched tablecloths and rosewood furniture need to be dropped. The best exponent of eateries where this happens are the Dai Pai Dong . In them, you may expect a sample of Cantonese dishes by HK$ 50 (beer included!). Number of fellow dinners: 10. To contact Martin, email him to lotzma@gmail.com ----------------------------- • Antonio Zapien will take people to a Seafood restaurant in Cheung Chau. Date: 26 of June. Cheung Chau is a small island not far, about 2 beers away --by ferry-- from Hong Kong's central district, which is home of a picturesque fishing village with very limited motorized vehicles (locals say that the specially-built fire trucks and ambulances are listed in a famous record-keeping book due to their small size). Cheung Chau is a popular weekend destination for HKers as it provides a number of water sport activities and some easy but pleasant hikes. Numerous seafood restaurants facing the typhoon shelter provide a nice setting and tasty Cantonese flavor to your own catch, your fresh buy at the local wet market, or your selection of live fish/shrimp/squid/lobster/etc/etc/did-we-mention-etc? on display in tanks along the waterfront. Favorites are the spiced salt fried calamari, steamed fish, garlic scallops with glass noodles… Expect to pay about HK$ 220 for food and Ferry. Leave from central at 19:30 back at ~ 23:30. Number of fellow dinners: 12. To contact Antonio, email him to apjazs@cityu.edu.hk ------------------------------- Date: Wednesday or Friday evenings For those who would like a cool beer in friendly surroundings in the evening, why not join Jim in "The Stag's Head" in Tsim Sha Tsui(TST). The exact address is as follows: G/F, 11 Hart Avenue, TST The location is easy to find from TST MTR station (about 5 minutes walk). To contact Jim, email him to majimca@cityu.edu.hk |