Comments on: A picnic 44 storeys up…

by: blair_mitch

Thu, 25 Jan 2007 13:22:09 +0000

Sigh. I love Hongkong. And I love what you said because I can so relate: Hongkong just “gets it” the way we never seem to back here in good ol Manila. Hongkong is great little respite. A year isn’t complete without a visit!

by: sister

Tue, 23 Jan 2007 12:58:25 +0000

trislovesbread: Yes, there is Poilane bread available in NYC at Butterfield Market, Lexington Avenue and 77th Street.

by: ragamuffin girl

Tue, 23 Jan 2007 01:58:41 +0000

My favorite place - GREAT. Hubby gets scared whenever I go in there. The prices are high, but the variety and quality attest to the superiority of its products. I also go to Oliver’s Deli at Prince’s Building in Central and City Super at the IFC Mall because even GREAT runs out of stuff, but it’s still the best gourmet grocer HK has. A newly-opened organic superstore called Three Sixty at the 4th Floor of the Landmark has interesting items as well. I have lived in a 1st world country (they say HK has first world infrastructure but not quality of life due to pollution, educational system deficiencies etc…) where the air is clean and the roads are smooth and paved but HK for me is more efficient and disciplined by far. Never mind the so-called “rudeness” of the locals. What you see is what you get. Isn’t it obvious how much I love my adopted country? Now if only I could see beyond the smog…:)

by: Maria Clara

Mon, 22 Jan 2007 20:37:19 +0000

You got that right classic Parisian picnic spread! The only missing is a bottle of Bordeaux wine. Everywhere you go its typical scene to see our very own hardworking fellow citizens working in the hotel industry - from our neighboring Asian countries, European continents and Middle East. Yet, the administration brags about Overseas Filipino Workers – the money they transmit - but look at the type of work they do! Most of them are exploited, yet they tolerate that working condition rather than go home and unemployed. My heart goes to them.

by: Marketman

Mon, 22 Jan 2007 12:13:58 +0000

Carlo, excellent deductive material for an application to Scotland Yard. Yup, we stayed at a hotel in Pacific Place and that’s where we got the Poilane… Doddie, oddly, we never got to Peking Duck though we had a great Shanghainese meal with friends and the rest of the time we were eating with old friends or eating on the run! Yes, these cherries look like rainier and queen anne but I am not sure if they are the same…all I can say is, they were spectacular! They weren’t tart at all, which I like in some cherries, but not cloyingly sweet either… Frayed, yup multiple line mentality should be a patented Pinoy phrase. trish, I am not sure if you can get poilane yet in New York…though I would guess someone has figured out how to bring them in by now… Kieran, good bread is tough to find in Manila…it must be the humidity… kb, GREAT supermarket at the basement of the Pacific Place Mall…