The Australian back three were brilliant again and when O'Connor scored after the final whistle to tie the scores, it was left to him to convert his own try for an overdue win. The rest is history and a history that will give the All Blacks some nightmares over the coming year. It was a fantastic test after a brilliant Tri Nations with rugby back on track after some boring years. It's now time for SA, NZ and Aus to embarrass the Northern Hemisphere teams and the quality of rugby being served up there.
So, food.
We ate at an OK Teochow restaurant on arrival but it was great to line the stomach for the rugby. A few drinks with Bobby and Kim after the match and then off to an Italian steak restaurant for some very fine meat. Bistecca in Lang Kwai Fong served some of the better steaks I have eaten in recent times.
In the morning I went for a walk and came across one my favourite street foods of all time - congyoubing - scallion pancake. A few pancakes were scoffed on the street watching the world of Causeway Bay go around. They were not great, but they were still congyoubing.
We were staying in a cool boutique hotel called JIA which I can recommend. Cool design, afternoon tea, evening drinks, free flow soft drinks, a 1 Star Michelin restaurant attached......While we ate lunch at Caprice and were pretty disappointed (as I semi-expected to be), the real treat was eating at Le Marron, a small French restaurant which has recently graduated from a private kitchen. Very well done classic French cuisine - plump, juicy escargot, some delicious Gaillarde oysters, the juiciest pork chop I have ever eaten and a bottle of Bass Phillip pinot noir hands down outshone the over-priced and beige offerings of Caprice. Excluding the Epoisses cheese perhaps.
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