Archive for February 4th, 2004

Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups

Published by
James
at 23:52 UTC Feb 4, 2004 in Wine&Dine. 2 Comments

I love Jacob’s Club Orange which are easily available in Hong Kong, but I miss Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups from North America. Reese’s used to be available at the USA Co. in Hong Kong until the company went under. I just found them at city’super for HKD$35 in a Halloween type pack. Which is a steal for a similar chocolate coated peanut butter piece in similar size costing over HKD$12 a piece at See’s Candy!

Reese’s homepage linked above missed one important product from the company introduced in the 80’s – Reese’s Pieces, which I think m&m’s copied to become today’s m&m’s peanut butter.

A Free Market

Published by
James
at 16:25 UTC Feb 4, 2004 in Wine&Dine. 2 Comments

Local prices for imported eggs from Avian Flu infected countries like Tailand and China are reported to have doubled for a reported shortage of supply.

As if anyone were rushing to stock up on these eggs except for the importers and wholesalers who are in reality stuck with them.

Alec’s Field Trip

Published by
James
at 15:29 UTC Feb 4, 2004 in Arts&Crafts and Family. 0 Comments

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Getting ready to roll

Last Sunday, the Parent Association of Alec’s school organized a field trip to Yuen Long and Tai Po area for the students and their parents.

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Alec won a ticket prize

8:45am, we gathered together at the Oxford Road football field and got on a convoy of touring buses and went to a country club in Yuen Long first. On the way, Alec won a chess game for the ticket prize and a small box of pencil set for correctly answered a question on the bus. Strangely though, every other kid only got a candy for correctly answered their question.

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Crossing the Bridge “For Mom’s Convenience”

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The Plaque for the Bridge “For Mom’s Convenience”

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Alec the archer

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Stuffed sleeping bunny

The country club has a field for war games, a bunny house, a farm land for organic vegetables, and an archery field. Alec and I waiting in line for about 1/2 hour for a game of archery and Alec had a lot of fun there, though it was silly for those who bought carats to feed the stuffed rabbits which could not possibly eat anymore.

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Creative portraiture during lunch

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Photo viewing

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“Sand Bomb” throwing

We then went for lunch in Tin Sui Wai where there is a street market for dried seafood. We found some people playing some small hand throwing firecracker – if memory serves, I believe they are called “sand bombs” which one just throw them on a hard surface and it will make a cracking sound without the need to light it with fire. We bought HK$5 worth, and it was Alec’s first time to play with sand bombs.

Lunch at Tin Sui Wai was OK, except for the dripping air ducts. The chicken was cooked through the bones, so we ate some anyway despite the hype of Avian Flu. Large plate of boiled shrimp, “fresh” abalone amongst other dishes.

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Touching the octopus

After lunch, we head over to a bio lab farm in Tai Po, where there is a doctor there who invented some process which transforms a certain kind of sea fish into fresh water fish. Not sure what practical significance this process is meant though. A staff there took a octopus and a starfish out of two of the many pools there and let the students touch them.

At 3:45pm, the convoy took us back to the Oxford Road football field. All in all it was alright with no big thrill but for a mere HK$100 each, it’s not a bad deal at all.