So today we went exploring in Wan Chai. It's a stop on the blue line of the mtr and it's 2 stops from Central. JW and I had no idea where we were going and we thought we'd just walk around. We saw a lot but it felt kinda pointless because we were just walking around in circles without any idea of what we wanted to see or find. We passed by an underpass where we saw aunties hitting pieces of paper. It's the chinese equivalent of the voodoo doll and it's supposed to bring bad luck to the person you "hit."
Then we cut into a side street and we found a wet market. These are basically streets where locals do most of their grocery shopping. The food is fresher and cheaper but it's also not as clean. The streets are filled with shops like fish stores, butcher shops, and vegetable stores. You will see the fish still jumping around or swimming in tanks and you will see butchers cutting up meat in front of you. The streets are dirtier and wet because people just pour dirty water out on the streets. Hence the name wet market or gai see in Chinese. I'm a bit squeamish, so I did not like the sight of all that blood. The smell of everything was also quite overwhelming. I would describe it as the pungent smell of death. I think I'm being pretty mean there hahaha. But in all seriousness, the place really smelled. I wouldn't be able to do any grocery shopping here honestly. |
I was so happy to get out of the wet market, I was literally gleaming with joy. We decided to continue exploring the smaller streets and we found a street food shop. The waffles looked pretty good so we ordered one and we also ordered 2 skewers of shumais. I have never tasted shumais like that and honestly they tasted pretty floury and without much taste. The waffle was pretty good. The guy was really nice and made us a fresh one instea
d of giving us the ready made ones. So that's the waffle up there and inside it's filled with a peanut sauce, condensed milk and sugar. It was so sweet and rich. It's definitely one of the heavier waffles I've had. We were so tired at this point but we decided to check out toy street and a restaurant that was recommended by Holy, 鳳城小食. It's a pretty famous local restaurant around there. There was no english menu so I had to actually order in cantonese. They're famous for their porkchop buns so we ordered that and we ordered soup noodles. It would've been nice if there were seats there, but since there wasn't we just got everything in takeout and came back to chill in our dorm. We were almost back when it started pouring. By the time we were back, we were drenched but it was fun running through the rain with the food. Good times.. =3