Bucket list: Seafood dinner

Correction: Seafood feast.  Tiff, Wesley, Lawrence, Nat, and I went to Sam Sing Tsuen for seafood.  It is an area famous for seafood--price is arguably better than the touristy Sai Kung boardwalk.  But it is such a trek to get out there.  (Blue dot: Shatin.  Red dot: Sam Sing Tsuen)  Thank goodness Lawrence drove.

We had to book a week in advanced.  And pre-order dishes.  We ordered six seafood dishes, one vegetable dish, and a seafood soup, thinking eight people would attend.  Lawrence knew the owner so he got us a room.  Awesome.  Well...come to find out a few hours before dinner, it would be just the five of us.  Well, more food for us!   (I should've taken a photo of the five of us at a table meant for maybe ten people, in the VIP room.  Hahahaha.  It was slightly funny.  And we had to box up half the lobster noodles...it was just not going to happen.  TOO MUCH FOOD.)

Razor clams in black bean sauce

Large prawns stir fried in soy sauce

Oysters baked in Chinese wine

Salted pepper stir fried "lai lui ha" (literally translated: peeing shrimp)

 

 

Takes a bit of skill to get the meat out

Baked lobster with noodles

Whole scallops steamed with garlic and glass noodles

Yes, this is ONE scallop

We take too many group photos already so I didn't ask to take one.  I should've.  Haha.  It was super nice of them to make arrangements for this dinner.  Not only was it a trek to get out there, but it was also a pricey dinner.  I have no words (but I'm going to keep writing here...haha) to describe how wonderful it feels to have people make such an effort for me.  The first time I mentioned a bucket list, they quickly chimed in with ideas and then kept asking me what I needed to check off.  When I finalized my departure plans, they got together to make a plan to help me check things off.  They are beyond sweet.  BUT don't give them too much credit...I feel like a burdensome child because they say things like, "I got her Saturday morning and we're doing X, Y, and Z.  You're doing what with her later in the afternoon?"  The weekend I was in Johannesburg, when wishing me a good trip, Tiff and Nat looked at each other and said, "Finally, a weekend all to myself.  I'm going to recover from last week and get ready for the finish line here with this bucket list."  Some friends they are!  lol  I will always remember these comments fondly.

It has been a really long time I've felt this loved as part of a group of friends.  I spent a big part of my adult life nurturing individual friendships that have carried me through the good and the bad, but I'm discovering the joys of being part of a group of friends these past months in HK.  I am so very grateful for this time and it has helped me learn a great deal about myself.  I've also learned a lot about how to be a friend.  It makes me want to cry as I'm writing this.  Well, I'll have time to cry about it after I get on the plane on May 25.  Until then, I'm going to enjoy every moment I have with them--Checking things off my (awesome/awful) bucket list!