Bloc Mickey at Times Square16-07-09We managed to catch up on rest for the most of the day and decided to go out in the evening for dinner and desert. We hadn’t eaten much all day so was very hungry, we left for Causeway Bay, our favourite place to shop and eat.
Causeway Bay is a great place to explore, shop and eat. There is a variety of shops which range from shopping malls full of brand named goods to small local malls with many stores selling all sorts. There are many restaurants in the area and one of our favourites is Azabusabo, a Japanese Restaurant which is popular for it’s wide range of Japanese style deserts but also serves pretty good food. (It’s all about the desert)
The menu has a large deserts section and then some special dishes shown on posters around the place. Take a look at the desert menu, it’s great! My favourite so far has to be the Ice Cream with Cinnamon, Caramel on top of a sweet potato alongside the Strawberry Kakigori which is a large bowl of Crushed Ice covered in Strawberry sauce with Ice Cream on top with more Strawberry sauce.
Deserts Menu
We ordered our food with a special drink, Kyoho Grape Ice Cream Float, it’s a lovely, sweet, full of flavour grape soda with Ice Cream and Grape Sauce on top. This came before our food so we ate the ice cream before it all melted.
Our food took a while to arrive, not really that long but it seemed like an age as we were so damn hungry. Mine arrived first, Curry Pork Cutlet with Rice. My favourite Japanese dish, I love Katsu curry dishes, Chicken is better but they only offer Pork with Curry and Rice here.
Antonia’s dish came next, The Supreme Eel Set which in my opinion, is awful. I really don’t like Eel but if you ask her, “it was amazing, the eel was perfectly flavoured and the rice was... Japanese... which is very good...”
Dinner was far too filling and we couldn’t handle desert. I think it’s because we ate too fast which is a shame as the desert here is great. We decided to take a walk and looked around the LCX Centre again to do some clothes shopping. You can read more about the LCX Centre,
hereWe spent a while in the Namco Arcade, played a few games and got some Sticker Photos done. It’s the best arcade in the area, very clean, has a nice atmosphere, modern games and all working machines. After the arcade we stopped off at the 7/11 to get out of the rain, we read the Weekend Weekly magazine, which details the cool things to do in Hong Kong where we saw an article about a new art display in Times Square which is in Causeway Bay. We never knew about it, the last we saw it was a giant chess set for father’s day. We made our way over to Times Square to see the new art display.
The display was quite large, it took up most of the main space in Times Square. The display is only here until August when it’s taken away. The display is showing urban graffiti style Mickey Mouse and Disney characters as seen around New York, I think.
The first thing we noticed was the giant deformed Mickey Mouse statue, I think this was the centre piece. It was quite freaky and seemed like it had melted.
Next to the deformed Mickey Mouse was a smaller, normal looking Mickey. I really liked this statue, the colours and pattern was cool, reminded me of a Qee Bear Keychain.
Over the other side of the display was a giant pair of Mickey Mouse Shoes and Gloves. A lot of people were posing with these so we had to wait before we could get photos on these, when I posed with the hands by leaning on them, the whole thing wobbled, worried I’d knock it over, I didn’t climb it for the great photo I had planned.
There was one more statue in the display, another weird Mickey Mouse which looked like a pot from Zelda crossed with Bomb-omb from Super Mario with some wings poking out.
I’m glad we read about the display tonight as we would have either missed it completely or came across it during the day when it is busy and swarming with people. I’m sure we’ll pass it again but at night, it seemed to have much more of an effect and highlight the urban style of the display.
I took quite a few photos of the display, here are some more.
We got home quite late and had a long chat with Antonia’s parents about our trip in Shanghai and around China. Antonia’s father didn’t seem to want to talk to me much about it, in fact, he didn’t seem to want to talk to me much at all but Antonia’s mother had no problem talking with me. I’m not winning her father over at all, not good.
Today was nice and relaxing, just the sort of day (well, evening) that we needed after the trip to Shanghai. The food was great, we really love Azabusabo, if you ever go to Hong Kong or even Tokyo, be sure to check it out, try the desert (Kakigori or Ice Cream with Sweet Potato)
Must try to sleep early tonight as we have to be up early tomorrow, Antonia and her mother have to be somewhere and i’m tagging along to grab breakfast and wait for them to finish before we can go out for the day.