Chinese Breakfast Treat

As a child of Foodies, Katy is pretty used to outings built around special foods, meals and tastes. She's enjoying her Cantonese preschool and she is increasingly enjoying the fact that she can speak many more languages than most people. Katy loves nothing more than declaring that we should speak Putonghua when she hears it spoken on the ferry, or, if feeling contrary, if she is supposed to be having a Tagalog playdate!

But language is not only about words. It's also very much about culture. And of course, to us, culture is very much about food.

So, because Katy rarely gets Cantonese food (or much of any other type of Chinese food) at home, Mama has taken Katy out for "special Chinese breakfast treats" enroute to her school in Tung Chung.

This last time, we hit a very typical Cantonese breakfast joint - Cafe de Coral! It was great fun, although ordering in English is always a bit of a hit and miss adventure.

Having learnt my lesson from the last time, I meant to bring a bib for Katy, but forgot. Oh well, Katy loved wearing my pink jacket as a bib!

Katy's favourite dish is lo bak goh - fried grated turnip cakes.

And this time, she really enjoyed the cheung fun - giant rice noodle packets. She thinks the ones at Cafe de Coral are the best, but Mama likes the ones downstairs better.


After successfully eliminating spills on her uniform, Katy posed outside of school. It was a Monday, so she was wearing her Winter sports uniform.