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XS, S, M, and L
A couple of months ago Virgilio Martinez pinged me to let me know that he was coming to Hong Kong with Pía León for an event with the Bromance Twins - Agustin Balbi and Ricardo Chaneton. At the time I...
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Supporting chef friends: five guys
Thanks to the ongoing Covid-19 contagion and widespread policies of working from home and self-isolation, we've been holed up at home for the last few weeks. Dining outside the home has been reduced...
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A s(chl)ong for Valentine
It's Saint Valentine's Day, and in past years we've generally stayed home and cooked, choosing not to play into the commercialization of this day. This year, though, Hello Kitty wanted a change. We...
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Supporting chef friends: the simple couple
V is stuck in Hong Kong by himself, unable to visit his family in Japan due to rumored quarantine measures. Hello Kitty and I figured that he needed some company, so we met up for dinner while trying...
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Supporting restaurants: eat and run
It was almost 9 p.m. and I was finally getting ready to leave the office. I was starving, and RAW Meat Bro had just posted some pictures of a new dish he was testing out. I left a one-word comment:...
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Supporting restaurants: 2 out of 3 ain't bad
It's Friday night and I'm left to fend for myself. V is still home alone, so I figured I could grab him and open a couple of bottles over dinner. The two of us had previously tried to support our...
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Supporting chef friends: meeting new neighbors
Fat Donkey and I have been talking about this for a few years - doing a dinner where it's not just the two of us but with our respective partners - and we finally got around to doing it tonight. With...
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Supporting chef friends: the underrated Swede
We haven't gotten together with the Birdiegolfs in a while, and it was high time to polish off a few bottles. And guess what? I knew exactly where I wanted to go and which restaurant I wanted to...
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Supporting restaurants : the hole in the wall
We haven't seen LCKitty for a while as she's turned into quite the globetrotter these days, so she and Hello Kitty scheduled a dinner together. We were discussing which restaurant we wanted to support...
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Supporting restaurants: Hairy froggy
Hairy Legs is back in town, and it's been more than 2 months since I last saw him, so we figured we needed to have some wine together. As DaRC didn't have any plans for tonight, either, we decided to...
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Supporting chef friends: the smiling chef
It's been a couple of months since the Peanut Gang gathered for a meal, and we were looking for another restaurant to support. PR8 decided that he would want to go back to Neighborhood with me - which...
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Earth Hour 2020: staying in
I have been observing Earth Hour since 2009, and other than that first year when I was a guest at a friend's home for dinner, and turning out the lights in my apartment in New Taipei City in 2012, I've...
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East to west
An unexpected restaurant closure this morning left us scrambling to find a venue for early dim sum, and we ended up arriving at Hoi King Heen (海景軒) in the InterContinental Grand Stanford Hong Kong. It...
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Supporting chef friends: social distancing in the 'hood
It's been a couple of months since I last saw The Great One, having had a couple of dinners cancelled in the meantime. She was planning a night out at our favorite Neighborhood, but thanks to the new...
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Corona Easter
It's Easter Sunday, and we had planned to meet up with DaRC to support a local restaurant. Unfortunately, a number of places we would like to patronize don't open for lunch, so Chef DaRC offered to...
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Supporting restaurants: precious little flowers of spring
Hello Kitty and I have been cooped up at home for a while, and at times she's had to cook two meals while being busy working during the day, so I wasn't surprised when she requested that we dine out...
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Discount ribeye
It's been a while since Fat Donkey and I caught up over dinner with just the two of us, and I figured we could blow off some steam and catch up on current events. I had initially suggested that we...
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Supporting chef friends: Stereo RC
While Hong Kong has not officially shut down, shelter-in-place, or triggered "circuit breaker" as many other cities and countries around the world have, Hong Kongers have been practicing social...
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Supporting chef friends: 3-star social distancing
Hello Kitty and I have been cooped up at home for much too long, and the long weekend provided us with an excuse to meet up with friends and take a break from the pressures we've been under. We...
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Beijing Sichuan Guangdong
Hello Kitty was having lunch with Little Rabbit at China Tang (唐人館), and I was told that they would be having some Sichuanese dishes... which kinda boggled my mind. What is an ostensibly Cantonese...
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