Apple Pie Squid

We are just finishing our stop in Halong Bay (another post, another time), and are collapsing after our dinner in the hotel. On the menu (prepaid, part of the mini-tour we booked), we had Deep Fried Squid, Hong Kong Style. It arrived looking like any other pile of breaded and deep fried squid bits, covered in a glutinous red sweet and sour sauce. But, the sauce turned out to be flavored with cinnamon and the crisp veggie sticks under the squid turned out to be apples. Very, very odd, but quite tasty too.