My Host Lady!

All of the exchange students here are automatically signed up to receive a HK "buddy" that is a fellow student, but you can also sign up to be part of the Host Family Scheme which is what I did. I finally was able to meet my host lady this week for lunch! Her name is Cathy Yau and she was so nice and cute! She just graduated last year from PolyU and is now working in the Humanities office on different projects. We has two sisters and a brother and just moved to a new apartment in HK that I am going to try and visit! We went to a restaurant on campus that I had no idea existed because you must have a staff card to eat there. She ordered us five different types of dim sum and they were all delicious (as always)!  Some I had had before and some were new. We had pork dumplings, deep fried pork dumpling, a beef wrap dumpling type thing, shrimp dumpling, and a sweet yolk dumpling which I had not had before, but was very good! We just chatted for a bit about Hong Kong, my program, her job, her family, etc. I'm hoping to go meet the rest of her family at her apartment soon! Here are some examples of the dim sum we had.

  

Top to bottom: Shrimp dumpling, sweet yolk dumpling, pork dumpling.