The children have a Darwinian instinct that prevents them from eating on planes. So they hadn’t eaten for 24 hours by the time we got to Hong Kong. (That didn’t stop Mouse from throwing up on the flight, as per.)

This hotel has a nice breakfast buffet.

And there’s a lovely restaurant. It’s on the 28th floor and has a great view of the harbour and the light show. We ate roasted goose, barbeque pork and a very delicious crab, tofu and egg dish. The photos are pretty rubbish unfortunately.

The best thing we’ve eaten so far is the xiao long bao at Din Tai Fung – which is an international chain ‘dumbling’ restaurant. They are worth queuing for. Beautiful steamed dumplings, with a boiling hot liquid broth inside. Dangerous if you don’t know … You kind of pick them up, and put them in a spoon, pierce the skin and let the broth out. It’s like a self saucing dumpling. My favorite was the pork and crab roe. And we had garlic spinach which tasted succulently and perfectly like it had half a pound of butter on it. Which was fascinating since it had none. And there’s no photos because we forgot the camera. I’m blaming jet lag and we promise to be better next meal. Instead, here’s a photo of weird plastic food at the science museum.