First Day In A New Place

Today I met Catherine and Alex. They are adorable, smart, and talkative and have tons of energy. Their house is beautiful. It has three stories: the fist has a kitchen, dinning room, and living room; the second is the guest room/Franks office and a family room; the third is Catherine, Alex, and Frank and Carries bedrooms. Then there are stairs to the rook which has an amazing view of the ocean and a nice comfy couch. They have a pool that spills over viewing the ocean and two golden retrievers. While Frank was taking a hike with his friend and Carrie was doing dragon boating with the girls I just hangout at the house.

Alex and Carrie took the dogs to the beach while frank and Catherine gave me a tour of Sai Kung. Before we got there, we went to get meat for the party the next night. There are black cows everywhere on the roads and tons of homeless dogs. When we got into town EVERYONE had a dog. Along the pier there are all these boats filled with live fish that people are selling. It was insane and like nothing I have ever seen before, but also intriguing. Imagine buying your dinner like that! Frank showed me their equivalent to a Safeway with more live fish, dead fish, and dried fish. They have tons of other stuff there too from clothes to nail clippers and fruit. We went to a temple and all through the town.

We met Alex and Carrie for drinks before our diner reservation. For dinner we went to an oceanfront sea. At the restaurant, and all of the other ones near it, you get you table and then go up to pick your meal. There are huge tanks full of fish and little trays with shrimps, octopus, and other kids of sea food I cannot name. You tell them what you want, how much you want, and how you would like it prepared. They then take it out of its tank and put it in a plastic bag (still alive) and through it off to the side. I was a bit skeptical when the food first arrived at our table, but I was determined to try everything.

Everything was whole with the eyes, legs, brains, shell, everything. I usually am not a shrimp lover but it was goooddddd. Everything was good! It was so fresh! This one kind of shelled fish was my favorite, I don’t remember what it was called, but I do know I’ve have never seen it in the U.S. before. I also got the fish cheek, which is supposed to be the best part besides the eyes. Also we had fried rice and vegetables. I also am not a huge fan of fried rice, but it was excellent. Our waiter was this cute old lady and she wouldn’t take anything away until we ate all of it. She would get the all of the meat off of this fish and put it on our plates. After that, we got dessert. I had sesame walnut soup and I didn’t like it very much. Sesame is definitely and acquired taste.