Calvin, Ashton, & Camden EAT

Man vs. Wild is one of my favorite shows. One of the episodes is a collection of all the crazy things Bear Grylls eats while surviving in the wild. Although we were not trying to survive in the wild, I did feel like I ate some unusual things! In addition to the unusual, we ate some delicious food in Hong Kong! Following are some things I caught on camera:

This is called a Dragon Fruit. It is so good! It has a mild, sweet flavor, I think similar to watermelon. Not the same flavor as watermelon, but the same amount of flavor, if that makes sense. The texture is similar to a kiwi with the small seeds. Yum!

This is traditional Hong Kong dim sum. If you look closely, you will see the strangest thing I ate, chicken's feet! (in the back on the left). It is kind of like eating chicken with the skin on, although having those bones in there makes the experience a little too much to handle. Needless to say, I only tried it once.

Camden enjoying the dim sum.

Shrimp-not strange, shrimp swimming around in a tank of water one minute-on your plate the next minute, a little more strange. In the seafood restaurant we went to, you just walk over to the tank of fish, crab, shrimp, etc. and pick what you want, then they cook it and bring it out!

After exploring one day, we were looking for a place to eat some dinner. Calvin led us into a Vietnamese restaurant. We ordered the dinner set for two and made a few choices, not really knowing what we were ordering. I was pretty skeptical, but pleasantly surprised when everything was wonderful! The fruit drinks were very good, the soup smelled and tasted great, and the meat (not in the picture) was so tender and flavored so well. I wish I could go back tonight!

After a lot of eating out, we decided to buy a few things so we could cook in our room.

McDonalds was a frequent stop for ice cream cones, Camden's favorite! He could spot the McDonalds arches and always asked for an "I ee done" (done pronounced like cone).

And he usually ended up looking like this.

After eating a lot of Chinese food, we were craving some burgers-Monster Burgers!

They definitely lived up to the name.

One of my new favorite treats-gots zi bang (that is definitely not spelled right, but that's what it sounds like). It is made with a warm waffle, spread with peanut butter, butter, sweetened condensed milk, sprinkled with sugar, then folded in half. Heavenly!!

We went to Shaffi's twice because it was so amazing! Calvin was introduced to Shaffi's Indian food on his mission. The tradition lives on today-we saw two missionaries there on our second visit!

Tikki masala, another chicken curry dish, naan (the bread), and rice.

I saved the best for last, bakeries! There are some amazing things here. We visited this bakery in the morning when everything was hot. It was so good!

These are one of my favorites, warm buns with hot dogs inside. Who knew a hot dog could be so good??

Another favorite, pineapple buns. Not flavored with pineapple, but the crumbly topping looks like the outside of a pineapple.

It was hard adjusting to different types of food and different ways of getting food, but I think we found some pretty good things! I would take Hong Kong over the places Bear Grylls goes and the things he eats any day!