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Mon, 29 Aug 2005

Culinary photo-archaeology

An early Berch on Food "classic", just dug up and scanned. This was in Hong Kong, November 1989. (Note big beard, big glasses.) My father and I, who were staying in Kowloon, took the ferry to Central and then a bus to Aberdeen, on the southern side of Hong Kong Island. We looked at the famous floating restaurants, but had been told the best dim sum was in a huge place, which I think was just called "Aberdeen Restaurant", on a hill adjacent to the harbour. It was quite different from what we had at Hong Kong Flower Lounge in Kowloon (or Millbrae, for that matter). This was less showy and more meaty, with a huge selection of steamed dumplings and fried goodies, but no fancy tableside carved duck or noodles cooked on the trolley. Nevertheless quite delicious, although the combination of MSG, beer (rare for me) and bright sunlight resulted in the only migraine I've had following Chinese food.

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