Hong Kong dining at Bo Innovation

Bo Innovation is a trendy place in Hong Kong, with 'Molecular Gastronomy' cooking taking from traditional Chinese style, and doing a molecular spin on it.  I love this photo, it says so much.  Our waiter explaining the course in front of us, all three tomato items.  Both Tony and I thinking, um, okay.  The first, an incredibly delicious tomato, I think it was super low temperature cooked.  Behind it, our egg waffle 'bread'.  The middle item was also tomato, but I am forgetting the details.  It's a wan ton skin deep fried, I think, with a fancy sauce, something tomato... I wish I could remember.  On the far left exemplifies the food for the night.  it's a tomato marshmallow.  Yes, it has a tomato flavor, oh, and the dried green onion leaf on top.  The wine was paired with the dishes, also quite unique.  A fascinating experience all in all.  The bottle on the left there is a sort of vinegar used, I forget where.

This is the best soup dumpling I've ever had.  Okay, fine.  It's the only soup dumpling I've ever had.  This is a special dish, we were told.  Again, it's a traditional chinese dish (apparently) gone molecular.  The dumpling itself is 'stuffed' with soup.  Across the top is a special ginger.  It was good, and so surprising.  Virtually everything we ate were tastes I was not expecting, and amazingly delicious once I got over the surprise.

This is a nice seared scallop.  What's unique, and our instructions were to divide the scallop into 4 bites, then eat with the four surrounding flavors, the tall was a foamy spicy something, then salty,  then bitter and finally the sweet cherry gelatin in dark red there.  Delicious.

This is two kinds of cod, with seaweed, a really light seaweed like it was baked or something.  Note the little flowers, called something like sisal?  This was delicious too.  As you can see, the bites are small, but both of us were satisfied after we finished.  Really fun!

Hong Kong

This is my first swim spot in Hong Kong.  We lucked out with the Crowne Plaza hotel at Causeway Bay.  We're on Hong Kong Island, the most southern part of the city.  As you can see, it's a bit overcast, and we had a bit of light rain.  It's an infinity pool, right up to the edge of the building, on the 28th floor!  In the foreground, you can see the darker pool tiles, actually, the water is about 1/3 meter (1 foot) deep.  The weave you see in front of that is a lounge chair, in the water.  Interesting juxtaposition.

Hong Kong is an amazing place of man daring nature.  As you can see in the background, the city is on steep landscapes, which doesn't seem to hinder the construction of monstrous fancy highrises on the smallest and steepest pieces of land.  It's so dense, and the norm is 40 or 50 stories it seems.

This is Tony getting a picture of turtles in Hong Kong Park.  A beautiful place in the midst of the city.  Below is the aviary in the park, and below that, you can see the aviary in the foreground with all the building behind, in the hills.

A walk-through aviary with huge sky scrapers behind.

 

Top of aviary, lower left.  So many high rises.

Another biggie.

Evening begins to set in looking over the water.  This is the top floor bar at the Four Seasons, Hong Kong Island.