Gorillaz is coming to HK December 3rd at AsiaWorld, tickets went on sale today.  You can get them online here.   “In addition to Damon Albarn, Mick Jones and Paul Simonon, the Gorillaz live band also includes Mike Smith, Cass Browne, Jeff Wootton and Gabriel Manuals Wallace, as well as additional backing singers, brass sections, a full string ensemble and special guests. Artists that have performed in previous shows included among others the likes of De La Soul, Bobby Womack, Booty Brown, Mos Def and UK Hip Hop stars Kano and Bashy.”   I don’t think we can expect to see any of those guests appearing onstage here, but if the band really does include Jones and Simonon, that will be thrill enough for me.  The one and only time I saw the Clash live was at Bonds in NYC – almost 30 freaking years ago, holy crap.  And I never got to see Blur live in concert.

Not much else going on.  My search for restaurants in Kennedy Town continues, today’s lunch was at the oddly named Thalassic Thai Restaurant.  A set lunch of grilled pork neck, rice, vegetable soup and an iced lemon tea set me back HK$38 and was quite tasty.  And a lot of the dishes I saw on other tables also looked quite reasonable – I will return.

Dinner tonight was my first time at a Wanchai spot that’s been around forever – 3.6.9. Restaurant.   You may recall that I used to like Tai Ji back when they first opened but their quality went downhill after awhile and now they’re gone.  After swapping out a camera battery at the Wanchai Computer Centre, walked over to this place which was quite full at 7:30 PM.  My friend and I got a tiny little table in the back which left me literally leaning against the air conditioner.  We had chicken, pork belly with mushroom & bamboo, choi sum with “chicken oil” and of course xiao long bao.   I don’t remember the name of the chicken dish but it was quite nice.  The pork could have used a bit more sauce and a bit thicker but was okay.  The xiao long bao wasn’t very “soupy” inside but it was tasty.  $280 for these four dishes plus two cokes – not the best Shanghai food I’ve ever had but not bad and I think I’ll return there as well.  (Update – now that I’m thinking about it, my jaw kind of has that feeling that I get after eating something with MSG.  But I don’t know for certain.)

Also, regarding 3.6.9. – I wanted some Shanghai style pork belly.  The guy standing at the door to lure in customers brought out an English menu.  I asked if they had pork belly.  He said, “Of course!”  And then he flipped through the menu, couldn’t find it and said, “Oh, it’s not on our English menu, just ask for it.”  Which we did.  And it left me wondering what else they have that’s not on the English menu (which was actually quite extensive already.)  On the plus side, I see that one of the reviews on Open Rice notes that they stay open till 4 AM.

Last and maybe least  - for those of you who’ve mentioned to me that you’re not getting email notifications on new comments in threads you’ve subscribed to, the guy who takes care of my server says he’s finally tracked down the issue.  Expect a fix to be in place by this weekend.

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