My favorite transportation in Hong Kong--MTR

 A Song with all the MTR Stations name

In this week, I am going to talk about the transportation in Hong Kong. In United States, almost every family have own at least 1 car because we don’t have many public transportation here. However, the situation in Hong Kong is totally different. In fact, lower class family cannot afford to buy a car at all. Somehow we consider car as a luxury good in Hong Kong. It is not necessary for a family to own a car because there are so many public transportations and it is very convenient to go out. Our transportation include: buses, mini-buses, train, railway and taxi. Out of these, my favorite transportation is MTR which stand for Mass Transit Railway. It is the biggest transit railway system in Hong Kong. It has 150 stations in total and they are all over Hong Kong. It is very common and popular transportation and many people treat it as the main transport. Basically, you can go to anywhere by taking MTR in Hong Kong. Moreover, because Hong Kong is really small and crowed, the road traffic is a serious grow problem. We really need to run MTR to reduce the traffic. Most importantly, it is efficiency and affordable. It takes 3 minutes in average to go from one station to another and cost like$ 4 HKD only. (around 25 cents USD) I have a MTR station really close to my home in Hong Kong. It takes me 5 minutes walking distance to the MTR station so it is very convenient to me! I took MTR to school or go out to have dinner with friends. Therefore, I feel very different here in United States because I need to have a car to go out (mostly) and almost everybody drive here, it is inconvenience!

The official website of MTR is below:
http://www.mtr.com.hk/eng/homepage/cust_index.html

 The Station that near my home

My Favorite Breakfast in Hong Kong

My name is Tsz Wai Kwok (you can call me Iris),  I was born and raised in Hong Kong. I came to United States 4 years ago to study aborad. I went to community college for two years and a current student at UCSD. I would like to use this blog to share my experiences about my home country- Hong Kong to all of you! In this blog, I am going to share my 5 favorite of Hong Kong and I hope you will know more about my city and definitely hope you will come to visit this city in the cuture!

For my first post, I want to share the food we eat for breakfast in Hong Kong. In United States, I am always hurry to go to class so I don't really have time to make a big breakfast(sometimes I don't eat breakfast). I usually eat a yogurt or a bowl of cereal in the morning. However, I don't really like having cereal for breakfast! I think it is hard to chew!

a bowl of rice congee

Here is a link of recipe of congee : http://chinesefood.about.com/od/breakfast/r/congee.htm

And a YouTube Cooking video tutorial to show you how to make congee

In Hong Kong, I usually eat rice congee or steamed bun for breakfast. Sometimes I will have rice noodle too!Why people usually eat this for breakfast? It is because rice congee is easy and fast to make and easily digestible food. Perfect for morning! All you need to do is put rice into boiling water and wait until it is cooked. You can add meat like pork or chicken to make a different flavors! When it is cooked, you can also add seasonings like salt, soy sauce, pepper or hot sauce. My favourite is chicken with rice congee and I like to eat it with soy sauce. On the other hand, congee is consider as the perfect meal for people who are sick. Besides rice congee, I will have steamed bun for breakfast. Steamed bun and rice congee are both traditional Chinese food. People use flour and water to make a dough, then we put meat inside and then steam it until it is cooked. I think it tastes really good! It is obvious that I don't have time to make a dough every morning. In stead, I will buy some frozen one. It is ready to eat after you reheat it at home.  

steamed bun

Sometimes I have rice noodle for breakfast, and I would rather have it for lunch. I think rice noodle is kind of heavy for morning and I will be so full after I eat this. Rice noodles are made with rice flour and water. I will put the rice noodle in soup. It is similar to rice congee. The only different is that rice congee is more soup like and easier to digest.   

Rice noodle

I hope all of you can have a chance to try Chinese food for breakfast sometimes! When I came to United States, I have experienced lot of culture differences between Hong Kong and US. I hope this blog can let you know more about me and share my lifestyle in Hong Kong.