woensdag 30 oktober 2013

Time travelling

Eat, eat, eat 
McDonalds breakfast for 3 euro's


Because food makes us happy







Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution and ASX models :D

When we enter the dental materials lab, it's like we are timetraveling back to the 80's. Here we encounter some expired resin composites which are older than me.



The beamdestroyer machine

The resin composite beams in various colors
We were curious how those expired resin composites will perform at the compressive test.
Tha destroya machine

Ok so the compressive strength of the expired resin composites are way too low (red by CK and orange by Dane). The green one is normal not expired composite.

A teacher showing how to carefully remove the gypsum from its mold
Products from anonymous bored dental students 

It was almost lunch time and we were hungry. Hmmm gypsum porridge should be ok...
We tested the tensile strenght of paper
Even dr. Matinlinna tried but we all failed. With this demonstration, dr. Matinlinna wanted to tell us what impact an imperfection in dental material can cause.



The three gypsum produced from one mix. First Dane made his perfect gypsum, Kylie made an almost perfect one and I made a Cheesy one. By the time I made mine, I think the gypsum was already starting to set. Because Dane's gypsum had the highest strength and mine was the lowest.


A free lunch lecture about Oral B
Explaining how a tooth brush works by using two students who represents the teeth.
Souvenirs from Oral B

Chu Kan

zondag 27 oktober 2013

森城海鮮酒家 Sam Shing Seafood Restaurant


Walking around in Causeway Bay, we encountered several human sized shrimp. A promotional stunt for Calbee brand shrimp chips. They didn't want to give me a bag of chips though, because I couldn't like their facebook page, since I don't have internet on my phone here. They let me take a photo anyway though.


We took the tram from Causeway Bay to Wan Chai. There's pretty much 1 straight track from east-west on HK island. And it costs only 2.3HK$ to traverse the whole island by tram. In Euros that would be 23 cents. Sure beats the GVB.



Baked goodness, no explanation needed


I'm not sure what this guy was selling, but he looked so grumpy I didn't dare ask him.


So we we're on our way to the 188 mall in Wan Chai. And one of our friends wanted to get a 'slice of pizza', I was prepared for a small snack. Turned out a slice of pizza is the size of a servering tray.


One Piece crew


Since it's almost halloween a lot of vendors have masks for sale, I'm contemplating wether I should get this Bill Clinton mask.


Random jade vendor


Random meat/butcher shop, loads of intestines and other innards. Not really my thing.


Stopped in the middle of the street to make this one, shouting YOLO would be appropriate here.



Hot tea at Hysan Place, good stuffs.


On our way to Sham Shing for seafood, view from bus line 962B



Seafood, pick your own. I've learned a little bit of Cantonese so I'm able to understand numbers at least. We asked how much 1kg of shrimp would cost us, the guy answered with 88HK$ in Cantonese. But we told him, we don't speak Chinese, then he answered: 120HK$. After a lengthy discussion we got it for 88HK$. A small victory!!


One of these guys ended up on our plates.




Mantis shrimp, we got 3 huges ones, probably our best choice that day, they we're yummy.


We brought our fresh seafood (still alive) to a restaurant just 50 metres away from the market. There they prepared everything for us. The guy kept laughing at us because we bought so much. Around 1kg per person. But we finished everything in the end!, even though it costs us several mouth watering hours.
In the foto above: Razor clams, pretty much self explanatory



Before


During


After


And a stroopwafel from home as dessert. 
More to come, soon.

Dane