Red Bull Is Back

Red Bull
1 for 12.4
4 for 45
Wellcome (Shek Kip Mei)

Much to my delight, I saw a heady stock of Red Bull sitting in voluminous splendor on the shelf of my local Wellcome this evening. It was, I admit, a seductive pose struck by those gorgeous metallic cans, made even more so by the price, which had never been this low in the pre-cocaine scare days.

Welcome back, Red Bull! May I drink you for your most vivacious properties all the more while you remain at this enticing price point.

Broccoli

You can see in the background my iPod being used as an expensive egg timer.

Up close and out of focus with the little, dead caterpillar



Broccoli
3 for $7.90
Wellcome (Shek Kip Mei)

You cannot find broccoli at a lower price in Hong Kong, I believe.  Anyway, that's beside the point.

The pictures not-so-clearly reveal the surprise guest in this post:  one small, dead, caterpillar that found a comfortable grave inside the head of one the three broccoli that I had purchased earlier in the evening.  In all my years of preparing vegetables, and broccoli in particular, I had never before come across one of these buggers that had hitched a ride onto a vegetable and, potentially, onto my dinner plate - after all, what then is the purpose of pesticide?   I'm glad I wash my vegetables.

In Hong Kong, I do remember almost consuming baahk choi before noticing a small, dead fly trapped in its wet leaves.  I highly doubt that the restaurant uses organic vegetables, so I wonder from which supplier that restaurant sources its produce!