Hakka Cuisine and Else - 20110914

Yesterday, I had both my lunch and dinner on Hakka cuisine.

There are many Hakka people in Hong Kong. It was not uncommon to find their food here. The most heard dish should be "Baked Salty Chicken". However, the cuisine becomes less popular. Hakka cuisine is renowned to be heavy and oily. Hong Kongers have completed their transaction from farmers to clerks. Most of us need not to labour to survive. We rarely sweat.

With one day off, I accompanied my mum to go to Shenzhen. Though already a place full of post-modern architectures, some of their choices for food were still traditional. Like Hakka cuisine. Those fresh flesh of pigs and live chicken were still lovely. And I was particularly fond of the meat mash. With all the ingredients very finely chopped and mixed, the meat mash was delicious.

I tried the railway from Shenzhen to Futian too. With more than twenty stops, it took an hour to travel from one end to the other. It was smooth and quiet. The railway, administered by MTR corp, was a reminiscence to ours. There were LCD TVs to display news and stuff. I watched a long clip on how Djokovic defeated Nadal to clinch his first US Open. While traffic congestion was such a norm above the soil, it was not a bad option to go underground.

But, it would even be better to stay in Hong Kong.