Black and White

I didn’t do too much during the day today, just hung around the house doing homework. Alex was at her friend’s house the majority of the day and Catherine was off playing by herself. Catherine really wanted to make cookies though so I offered to make them with her. She wanted to make black and white cookies just like the ones she had in New York City. We looked up the recipe and had a lot of fun making them together. Mistakenly, we added the chocolate to all of the frosting mix instead of half, and I had the idea to die half of the frosting black. Catherine wasn’t too excited about it, but since we didn’t really have a choice. When we decorated the cookies the black sort of turned out a weird greenish color and were pretty ugly.

Just when Catherine and I were finishing up the cookies Alex got home and we all went to dinner in Yau Ma Tei, Kowloon. Frank ordered exceptionally weird food this time and so I just stuck to rice and soup. He ordered these eggs that had been aged for ten years in salt and looked disgusting. But supposedly they are amazing. Also there was pigeon that I would have tried if it wasn’t whole. Literally it was a cooked pigeon just cut up with its head facing me. Skin and all! Well without the insides but everything else. There was also raw, I think, squid and a fourth of a pig with part of its face. The waiters said we were VIP guests and were very nice. If we were going to serve something for someone like rice they would take the bowl and do it for us.

After we were finished with dinner we went to the Temple Street Market which is a market that is only at night and named after Tin Hau Temple on Temple Street. It was huge with lots and lots of people. Every stand that had any little animals Catherine went to and played with them, much to the owners’ annoyance. There was a whole street of fortune tellers and everything you could imagine at the market. At the end there were all of these little plastic pieces of bread and buns. For the longest time we could not figure out what they were for. Finally someone told us that you used them beneath your hand when you were typing. I loved playing with them because they felt so real! We walked back through to the beginning again, all at our own pace. When Carrie and I got to the beginning there was this painting that I had seen and really liked when we first got there. Carrie suggested that we should go get Frank and see if he could get the price down. But the guy wouldn’t budge at all. After we walked away I still wanted it and so we went back and I bought it!