Is it feed a cold and starve a fever, or starve a cold and vice versa… I can never remember which way it goes, but it would have come in darn useful this last week.
Shortly after touching down for a 3-day whirlwind visit to Hong Kong, my Singapore Sniffle (picked up on the way back from Indonesia) turned into a full-on 'bird-flu-is-nothing' stonker of a cold. Ah yes, cold and fever… just what you want when traipsing around Asia in 33° heat and 80 percent humidity!
Regardless, Sinumax and Asia's-tissue-supply in hand, I hit the streets with Joe Lee from the Hong Kong Tourism Board to explore some of the foodie hotspots of the 'fragrant harbour'.
Whether I should have been starving or feeding my dose of SARS, my guide assured me that the bitter green tea would help. That I agreed to… what I wasn't so sure about was the Steamed Chicken Feet, Duck Feet with taro and the Pork Dim Sum wrapped with Fish Stomach. For once, the lack of olfactory senses came in handy, and pushing the images of footloose poultry from my mind I think I did quite well for a Westerner!
Battling my mini-epidemic I hardly expected to pick up Foot in mouth disease too… I don't think I'll be ordering duck feet in the near future. When it comes to global cuisine my worldly wisdom simply doesn't stretch to webbed.
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