How to avoid rice & noodles

Honestly, there's nothing wrong with rice and noodles.  Really.  But after you've been here for a few days, you just kind of wish for something else.  Anything else.  Chips.  Beans.  A sausage sandwich (this is definitely on the list for Sunday, when we're back).

So today, we tried to eat other things. 

The first intention was to get up and have breakfast in the hotel, where there's a big buffet with enticing prospects such as cereal with milk, blueberry muffins and toast (it's hard to imagine how exciting that sounds right now).  That went out of the window when I slept through the alarm having stayed up half of the night not writing this blog.  (I'm thinking that the same may happen tomorrow morning now... it's just gone 5am).

So, to progress from that, we went to the Hard Rock café which is just over the road.  Fortunately the food was a little more enticing than the rooftop café (and I should tell you how much I'm looking forward to being back in there next week).  We ordered 'ambitiously' from the menu and couldn't finish everything, then reflected at length that we felt a bit ill and how western food is so stodgy, it makes you feel all bloated.  There's just no pleasing some people, is there?

After visiting the temple and the lovely Sham Shui Po, we came back to TST and ventured to the Harbour City food court and ate extensively from the creatively-named "Curry-in-a-hurry" (yes, I can see what they've done there) which came with enough bread to even satisfy Vicky's bread cravings. 

The question now is how we'll manage in Shanghai.  It's all well and good eating Western food here in Hong Kong, but is it safe to stray away from the local food in China?  Well, a guidebook has been purchased and hopefully the extortionate price paid for that also includes some kind of food poisoning insurance.

And before you ask, there's no pictures of the food this time - not even over on Flickr.