As we have to get prepared for our Osaka relocation, we went back to Hong Kong last week to get the Chinese artworks. In addition to this, Shacho is also preparing for a new Fook Lam Moon restaurant in Beijing next year. Therefore, he resembled his team and arranged for a dinner where we could all meet up to get to know each other. As you can see the photos with the previous blog about Hong Kong, we had dinner at the newly rennovated Wanchai Fook Lam Moon. We had an amazing dinner with exceptionally delicious food as you can see the photos. And even more amazing was the fact that all of us were women except Shacho and we managed to fit all that food in! Since Minori already described that dinner, I thought I should talk about the subsequent dinner we had in Fook Lam Moon.

Shacho, Minori and I had dinner again in Wanchai Fook Lam Moon sitting in the open area on 2nd floor. Its just became a wonderfully comfortable place after rennovation. The air conditioner is no longer blowing straight to my head; the tables have more space between each other; the lighting is much nicer which will make people look radiant; the chinese furnitures and partition chosen by Shacho added the personal touch. He and the staffs are so proud of it that they now think they should also become interior designers.

So what did we eat that night. Firstly we had the whelk soup. Then we had one of my all time favourite, stir fried pig’s stomach sphincter with olive seed.

The texture is amazing and its a really difficult dish to do well since it can easily become soggy. But that night it was cooked to perfection. While we were waiting for the next dish, Shacho suddenly mentioned about the whelk he saw in our tank in the morning. He said it looked like its coming towards its end since they can only last for a few days in the tank.

Therefore, Shacho suggested that we should just help it along and eat it. Normally, we only can eat it very rarely because its an extremely expensive delicacy. 1 whelk nowadays will cost about 12000 yen but one can only yield about 5 slices which mean ideally sharing between 2 people only. Here is the photos of the whelk. The reason people love it is the delicate sweetness and freshness it has, and the firm yet soft texture.

As Shacho was describing how he can spot the well being of the seafood in the tank, I was wondering why he has became so sharp about every single fish and whelk in his tank nowadays. Then I found out the reason was that now smoking is being banned in all indoor area in Hong Kong, every morning when Shacho goes into Wanchai restaurant, he would have to sneak to the backstairs for a cigar. Thats when he will walk pass the fish tank and check on them like a doctor doing his ward round!
The rest of the photos are the other dishes we ate that night!

