Next to the shops selling spices or exotic animals in Ko Shing Street, you’ll find more shops in Des Voeux Road West in Hongkong selling edible goods from the sea – dried fish, seaweed and algae, and much more. It was a new and unusual sight for me. Tastes are just different, and without expert help or due to a lack of language skills, I decided against buying anything and trying it myself.
What fascinated me about Hong Kong was that it brings together restaurants of all styles – Asian, European, African etc. – in one city, and it seems that absolutely everything edible is actually available to buy or, since the people here are so enterprising, can be sourced. In Ko Shing Street, Sheung Wan, for example, you’ll find many shops with a wide range of food items that were previously unknown to me. Alongside spices, they also offer dried lizards stretched out on small wooden sticks and other creatures. Other shops specialise in fish and seafood.
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