Bobby Hundreds at HotPot (Hong Kong)
My blog roll is nearing the the hundreds (no pun intended, but I’ll cheerfully accept). Whether it’s a food blog, Perez Hilton, tech blogs, fashion blogs or Xangas, it’s probably on my wake-up-and-read list every morning. If you e-mail me your personal blog, most likely I will end up checking back to see what’s good in your life. I digress, today I bring you one of the blogs that are top tier on my list of things to read. For those of you who are unfamiliar with Bobby Hundreds, dude is the creative director and founder of The Hundreds clothing, and one of the main drives of the brand, in my opinion, is his blog. To be honest, I don’t own a single article of The Hundreds clothing, but you gotta respect branding and culture that gets invested into the brand. Today we bring to you one of Bobby Hundred’s “work” trips to Hong Kong and goes out to a local restaurant called “HotPot” with his friends and co-workers.
Bobby does an excellent job of capturing the atmosphere of all his eateries, and of course, the visuals are usually just as impressive as his written descriptions.
Since I boasted about Bobby’s descriptions, I’ll quote his wordage:
The restaurant was tucked away deep in the corner of a space with 5-foot ceilings… Sorta in-between floors I guess you could say. The low overhangs were padded with cushions, which probably come in handy for people’s foreheads after 20 rounds of Tsingtao Beer blow out.
So the HotPot was kinda gnarly, but tasty. The traditional Hong Kong hotpot dinner is kinda like a Japanese shabu-shabu, but with more diarrhea involved the following morning. The waiters bring out plates of raw food, beef, shrimp, dumplings, vegetables, tofu, etc. You dip the food in the communal boiling pot of water in the middle of the table to cook it, then enjoy.
The company Bobby keeps is just as interesting as the places he eats at. He keeps it going for us below:
Sam serves up the giant shrimp (which was still alive and wiggling pre-dunkage *gasp*). As I noted the other day, Sam is a huge star in Hong Kong film and rap music. The entire restaurant turned around when he walked in, the pretty girls gasping and giggling at the sight of the youth icon. Sam’s story is straight storybook status.. All these dudes grew up being local skaterats (kinda awesome), and Sam was spotted one day skating by a filmmaker who cast him in HK’s first true critically acclaimed independent film. From there, he kinda blew up, and now he’s a movie star, musician, popular DJ, and oh yeah, he also has Subcrew.
Keep up with Bobby and The Hundreds, they’re always up to some interesting stuff.
