Gone Fishing

Great day at a BBQ in the New Territories. Stopped off at the local fish market and managed to completely over-order - scallops, fish (Garopa?), Mantis Prawns, King Prawns, and ordinary prawns. There were around 12 of us in total (together with 7 kids) some travelling by car and some by boat meeting at the VRC just the otherside of Clearwater Bay. We has also stocked up at Taste with some meat .. but so had everyone else and we ended up with far too many prawns which were utltimately brought home for D to turn into spicy prawn.

We had gone to the fish market rather than the local fish restaurants which is what we had done last Summer - it was around 1/3 the price although it certainly helped having a Cantonese speaker (E who organised the whole trip). Kids as usual had a great time on the beach although E. was bitten to death by the local bugs.

Last night we went out to Dinner with some French friends - S. and another A.. Quite an interesting bunch of people including a local actress who lives in our block who is in the local Cantonese movies - unfortunately not an area I know much about but she seemed nice enough.

V. has cut her first tooth and is sufficiently proud of it to try to eat anything that comes in range. A. seems to enjoy V. pulling his hair and gnerally trying to nibble his clothes so it makes for a reasonably harmonious relationship.