Death by chocolate

Awfully Chocolate, 18 Hanoi Road, Kowloon, Hong Kong

Attention to all chocolate lovers around the world. This is the place you must visit once in your life. When I was in Hong Kong last year, I coincidently bumped into Awfully Chocolate. They sold cakes (which looked absolutely delicious) and they only served ice cream in one flavor: premium dark chocolate ice cream (made of Belgian dark chocolate, consisting of 70% pure cocoa). Of course I decided to try a scoop.
      I had my fair share of reference material around the world (I mean, Italy, hello!), but I’ve never tasted anything like this before. With each bite my mouth filled with the intense flavors of chocolate and cream. This wasn’t just chocolate ice cream, this was awfully, abso-fucking-lutely, delicious chocolate ice cream! I mean, seriously, I'd fly back to HK just for another scoop of Awfully Chocolate's ice cream.

     Enough said, you know what to do. You’ll find their shop at the square in front of K11 Shopping Center. Just make a mental picture of the map below and never, ever, forget ;)!

Ps. Writing about my chocolate devotion made me think of this song by Weeble and Bob ha-ha!

Who loves the chocolate. Everyone loves the chocolate. Nobody hates the chocolate. ‘Cause everyone loves the chocolate

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Spicy Crabs at the night market

210 Temple St, Jordan, Hong Kong

This place brings back the best memories. It was my first time in Hong Kong (to be exactly, my first hour in Asia) and I totally got overwhelmed by everything. The heat, the smell, the people, the streets, the neonlights.. 
            Before doing anything else, we went straight from the airport to the Night Market on Temple Street. (If you want the cabdriver to bring you there, just say: “tempestreethnighmaaketttt” and he’ll know). It was very late and we were hungry after our flight. We just sat down at a little table (in the middle of the street) and ordered two bowls of plain rice, two beer and two dishes we couldn’t even pronounce. One of them turned out to be sweet and sour pork. De-li-ci-ous sweet and sour pork. A bit sweet, a bit sour, crispy pieces of meat and fresh (well, kinda) pineapple and peppers. And while eating all this great food we just kept smiling at each other and in de mean time we looked at all these new impressions around us. (You know about the table manners of Chinese people right? Well, there actually was one guy who took off his shirt,  dried off his soaked armpits and face with it, sneezed in it, and putted in back on. Nice!)
         Since this place is so special for me, I really needed to share this one with you. I had to do some research since I couldn’t fully remember the name of this place, but by using Google Maps, Flickr and the photos I made that night, I discovered the name of the restaurant: Spicy Crabs.

I understand Hong Kong might be a little bit out of reach right now for some, so if you want to try some sweet and sour pork that comes close to the one I had at Spicy Crabs, go to Nam Kee (a very famous Chinese restaurant at the Zeedijk 111 in Amsterdam.