Hotpot time!

Lantau Taste is offering yummy hotpots that are perfect for this weather. This is the curry chicken hotpot (HK$88), which comes with pretty lethal Sichuan peppers.

The lamb hotpot (HK$128) is the best of the four choices, I think. Lots of mushrooms and water chestnuts.

I washed it down with hot Coca Cola (yep!).

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When it's hot like this...

 ... don't you wish you were here?

Hazy day in Mui Wo

An as-yet-unnamed tropical depression hanging round Luzon is causing hazy and very hot weather in Hong Kong. The mountains have all but disappeared and there's a dusty taste on my lips. 

 I wish the typhoon would come now and be done with it.

Perfect drying weather

Now that the typhoon has gone, it's back to hot and windy weather again – just perfect for drying stuff, including fish. 

The smell takes a bit of getting used to but when dried, these will taste heavenly!

Longan season

Mother Nature is good at helping you cope with the extremes. When the weather spikes, she gives us longans to cool us down. Chilled, the fruits are like refreshing sorbets on a hot day.

The local varieties sold in Mui Wo have quite thin flesh that sticks to the seeds (the China ones are fleshier) but they are just as sweet.

The Banana Uncle is selling them at HK$8 a catty. I got two catties and now am having a luxurious longanfest.

A word to the prudish: Banana Uncle has taken to wearing super skimpy shorts in this weather so avert your eyes when choosing your longans... or you may see more spherical objects than you'd bargained for.

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We try to live without air-conditioning to cut down on energy bills and save the planet. So whenever there's a very hot weather warning, this is what I feel like doing: Tsit on ice.

I think that penguin is taunting me.