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If we remember these...

雲腿蒸鷄，吊片蒸肉餅 (美心皇宮大酒樓) Steamed chicken with Chinese golden ham & steamed pork patty with dried squid by Maxim's Palace Restaurant Taikooshing, HK

 Tried ordering the dish on photo 1 many times but sold out.  I then called to reserve one.  That told why it was sold out that easily.  Glad that this one was made in such a classic way.  No fancy thing of XXX chicken plus YYY Chinese ham.  The 2nd dish is also a classic one and see how the original Cantonese steamed patty (the thickness and the just right juicy).  I really don't agree to those super thick patty as that would have a strange "suffocating" meat odour.  Don't know why those fusion "mini volcano" patty is such a talk of the town.

Blake Pier 卜公碼頭, relocated in Stanley, Southern HK

To be in Once Upon a Time, soi 17, Petchburi Road, BKK

Just as its name "Once upon a Time", the last time I was here was over 10 years ago.  The place is in a very nostalgic deco., and has distracted my attention from the food that I forgot taking photos on some dishes.  The food is not that bad though it's not the best.  Recommend to come here once upon a time.  Then you will have some good old fond memory for this once.  Too much would get ourselves spoiled and forgetful....

Back to ours - there's no place like home. A special dinner at Big Shanghai restaurant, Suk 24, Emporium BKK

Passed by this place hundred times and puzzled if I should go in.  Finally the clock was turned back...  Back to something we used to have...
And here we had a special dinner.  The most surprising thing is the classic and the original cooking of hot and spicy soup which the Shanghai's hot bean paste was used, instead of the white pepper that nowadays most restaurants use.  The other nice one is the stir fried eel, also a classic cooking with raw chopped garlic with hot burning oil to bring out the aroma.  The other dishes aren't the best, they are still pretty classic.  Most of all, we could be here on a special day, and right next to Emporium.

HSBC, Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Eastern Malaysia, Borneo

This branch was here quite many years ago.  These told the old relationship between Hong Kong and this place, especially when we watched the old TV dramas for our senior movie actors and actresses going to Borneo for stage performance.

HK coastal defence museum (海防博物館), Ah Kun Arhm 亞公岩, HK

Photo 1: shows the HK street names changed to Japanese. Photo 2: a Japanese general squatting on the Sai Wan terrace (near Kornhill/Sai Wan Ho). Photo 3-5: some old memories. Photo 6/7: See that Rowntree's pastilles, Life Saver mint, Kit Kat. Please also check how good of our seniors had their calligraphy. Really makes me feel ashamed.