and this was only day two! (photo by leslie scurry)

A tipping point of any out of country food trip is the balance between how much food there is to eat and the number of hours in a day. Since we decided to make our excursion to Hong Kong and Tokyo officially a food trip, the tipping point quickly hit us like a ton of cooked, clay pot rice.

The three things essential to writing about this trip were: 1) finding the 40 or so restaurants that we targeted for this trip, 2) getting to then dining at as many of those places as possible, sometimes making the sacrifice of having two lunches and/or dinners in the time allotted, and then 3) sitting down and writing about the best ones. And guess which two won out?

Although diligent during the first two days in Hong Kong, the perils of trying to walk/ride to our chosen Hong Kong and Tokyo eateries caught up with us quickly. We withered under the weight of all of the good food we managed to find and eat that there simply was not the time (and in some cases, the will) to write. Needless to say, we had a good time, you just won't hear about it all at once.

Coming up in the next few weeks will be some musings, rantings and ravings about some of the best food we had in both Hong Kong and Tokyo. The previous two postings below will give you a flavor for what we started the trip with.

And as a teaser, we did eat quite an amazing meal at Bo Innovation in Hong Kong and did the same at XEX restaurant morimoto in Tokyo, as well as at a decent-sized handful of smaller, but no less spectacular, places in both locales. Stay tuned.