Jaspas

Feeling a little better, so we headed off this afternoon to try the Eggs Benedict at Jaspas in Happy Valley. In the end, the spinach mentioned in the description put me off - it was a choice of smoke salmon + spinach or ham + asparagus. Going for something called "Stacks of Taste" sounded better, although it too mentioned spinach. Sonia settled on the sauted mushrooms dish.

When the dishes arrived, they both turned out to be half a ciabatta with stuff on top. Stacks of Taste was bacon, two poached eggs, spinach, and hollandaise sauce. Sonia's mushrooms were piled on top of her bread, with some dried tomatoes mixed in, and hollandaise sauce on the side. The coffee was good - lattes.

Afterwards we decided to walk towards Central, so walked down to Causeway Bay. In the process we realised that it's significantly closer to town than we had thought before. Maybe it would have been ok to live in Happy Valley instead? We ended up walking to Wan Chai MTR station, then giving up and taking the train to Central. Walking up to the escalator, we made it back to the Phoenix Cafe. A pleasant hour or two there, then back home.

Now back home, we're puzzling over what to watch on the 30-or-so channels we have on TV. Strangely enough, most of it seems to be rubbish. Never mind.

Tomorrow night I'm off to Tokyo again. On Thursday night I fly to Seoul, spending Friday meeting with the local team there. Friday happens to be their Christmas/end-of-year party (how did that happen?) so it would be impolite to leave on Friday. I'll fly back to Hong Kong on Saturday morning. Another week away from HK. The week after should be more focussed in the office in HK, so that will be nice. Then we head to NZ for the Christmas/New Year week.

Let us know what you've planned for your Christmases - would be good to hear from you all!