Sunday, August 10, 2008

Hong Kong Day 1

I am back at it already.  I think it has something to do with me being jet lagged and eating too much to the point where I couldn't turn over in my sleep.  Seriously!  My grandmas, aunts, uncle, and dad came and picked me up from the train station. 8pm, time to eat.  Got to the restaurant where my other uncle was already waiting with a table.  We ordered an "8 person package meal" but with only 4 person really eating.  My grandmas had a bite here and there, my aunts did the same, and my uncles were more concentrated on the $1 beers.  Which left my dad and I to do some seriously work.  As I ate, I look around and I saw myself as a specimen of some sort.  Everyone just wanted to observe the way I devour everything in sight.  If you knew me, I can hold my own when it comes to eating (no kobayashi but I like to finish was other people can't eat :) )  But here with family, it is a different ball game.  It is almost eating against your will.  I was actually really full and tired when they ordered a "side plate" of my favorite dish (the roasted pork).  Which was probably meant to feed two hungry individual (with rice).  Not being able to turn it down, I ended up eating about 75% of it.  I really couldn't get up afterwards.  You know, in the states, people often say things like "I am so full I can't get up" or "I loosened up my belt by two notches"...etc etc.  Mainly, they use these phrases as a description of really how full they are, but often times didn't physically mean what they were saying.  But here, I really couldn't get up without assistance and my stomach was really expanded to the point where it was painful unless  I loosened up my belt.  Going to bed that full is usually not a good idea, especially when jet lagged.  Oh well, tomorrow is a new day, it has been close to 12 hours since I ate that meal, and I am still really really full.  They already scheduled to go eat at 10am at my uncles restaurant.  And he is definitely not shy with his portions.  So I have that to look forward to.  I need to start playing some basketball or this could be trouble.

1 comment:

Eric McPherson said...

You are going to be a fatty mc fat fat when you come back.