Fish maw frenzy kicks off annual Food Expo in Hong Kong
Bargain hunters battle it out for discount delicacies on opening day of one of Asia's biggest food fairs
Bargain hunters battled it out this morning for thousands of dollars worth of fish maw, a Chinese delicacy, after queuing all day and night for the opening of one Asia’s biggest food fairs in Hong Kong.
On the first day of the five-day Food Expo at the Convention and Exhibition Centre in Wan Chai, two intrepid visitors held off a teeming queue for a race organised by On Kee Dry Seafood to grab up to HK$48,000 worth of the dried delicacy from a 36kg fish maw mountain.
After some frenzied grabbing the pair managed to bag about HK$2,000 of maw each – not bad for a HK$1 race entry fee.
“I have been waiting outside the exhibition centre since 11am yesterday in order to beat every one to be first in the line. I have snatched away more pieces of fish maw than I did last year,” two-time competitor Tang Kin-man said triumphantly.
At the same time, a race organised by Fei Fah Novelty Food was raging with three visitors sprinting to its booth to snatch as many plastic mooncakes as possible from a mooncake tower in 30 seconds.
Unbeknownst to the heroic competitors, whoever bagged the single pink mooncake hidden in the tower of treats would receive a free box of Malaysian durian mooncake every year.
