Features in Hong Kong, tea restaurants are all over the region, and the business hours are uncertain. Usually from 6 am to 1, tea restaurants in prosperous areas such as Mong Kok are more likely to open all night. Tea restaurant is a local restaurant in Hong Kong, and its main customers are the general public. Its main features include: * Diversification of food: Tea restaurants provide Chinese and Western food, and Hong Kong has many unique diets (see food in tea restaurants). In fact, these specialties are often developed casually by customers and imitated by other curious diners, which shows the tolerance of Hong Kong tea restaurant culture. In a small tea restaurant, there are often dozens of foods on the menu, and customers can mix and choose the right food at will. [3][4][5][6] * Efficiency: Tea restaurants generally do not accept tips, and customers pay at the cashier after patronizing. And there is no need to wait, and speed is emphasized from ordering to checkout. During lunch time, construction workers, truck drivers and even office workers will all visit the tea restaurant at the same time. Customers from different classes and industries eat, talk and read horse classics in tea restaurants, which has become a major feature of tea restaurants. * Affordable food: Food sold in traditional restaurants is usually more expensive. Eating a meal in a tea restaurant may cost more than 20 Hong Kong dollars. Dinner and fast food in a tea restaurant will include drinks, or water or hot tea will be provided free of charge. However, due to the current inflation, under the double pressure of rent and labor, the food prices of tea restaurants in many areas are almost the same as those of fast food restaurants of large groups. [Edit this paragraph] Catering in a tea restaurant * Coffee (instant grinds and granules, mostly the latter) * Black coffee: coffee without sugar and milk * Hong Kong-style milk tea (silk stockings milk tea): a must-have drink in a tea restaurant. Take fragrance, smoothness and consistency as the standard. Put the brewed tea in an iron container for several hours to make the tea fragrant, then separate the tea leaves with silk-like cotton bags, and then add milk and sugar. "* Yuanyang: Coffee with milk tea, original in Hong Kong. Chinese medicine believes that coffee is hot and dry, and milk tea is cold-cut. Mixing the two is seamless. * Black and white mandarin duck: Holiland plus Avata, originally from Hong Kong. * Herbal tea: Since it is a tea restaurant, of course there is tea to drink, but there is definitely no herbal tea that Cantonese people like to drink. The "herbal tea" here is actually Hong Kong people's favorite milk tea, especially frozen milk tea. * Tea: Silk stockings milk tea, with condensed milk instead of sugar and light milk. * Hollick (commonly known as "Hollick" after English name): ready-to-drink beverage. * Ahuatian (commonly known as "Huatian"): ready-to-drink beverage. * Lemon tea (lemon black tea): Hong Kong-style lemon tea, there must be a few slices of lemon in the cup. * Lemonade (lemon with water) * Lemon coffee (lemon with coffee): Hong Kong original [7] * Lemon Bin (lemon Galibin): Hong Kong original [7] * Lemon honey (lemon with honey): But in order to save costs, ordinary tea restaurants will use plant honey * plant honey * soft drinks: Coke, Sprite (7-up) and Fanta are generally provided. * Milk: fresh milk is usually bottled in glass, but also bottled milk with chocolate flavor (commonly known as "Zhu milk") * Milk: milk with water * Boiled eggs: boiled eggs with water * Milk eggs: condensed milk with water with raw eggs * Beef tea: Bao Er beef tea * Moo goo (hot chocolate): Moo goo is an English translation of cocho, now. * Drinks below almond cream in some tea restaurants will be charged an extra 3 to 10 yuan: * Lemon cola: Generally, if you choose frozen lemons, the store will separate the cola from the glass filled with lemons and ice cubes. * Lemonade and ginger (Coke and lemon and ginger must be hot drinks): it has the effect of treating colds. * Lemon 7-up (lemon plus 7-up): Generally, if you choose frozen lemon 7-up, the store will separate the 7-up from the glass filled with lemon and ice. * Salted lemon seven (salted citrus, lemon, 7-up): can cure sore throat. * Lotus seed mandarin duck ice * Red bean ice * Ahuatian red bean ice: a mixture of Ahuatian and red bean ice * pineapple ice * assorted fruit punch * mint punch * freshly squeezed juice: orange juice mostly. Most drinks can be chilled into frozen drinks, but there is an extra charge of 1 for going to 5 yuan, which is called "frozen drinks plus mosquitoes" (* is a charge); Or you can have an "ice bottom" (a glass of ice), but there may be an extra charge. Snacks * All kinds of toast: for example, more cream (condensed milk+butter toast), more milk sauce (condensed milk+peanut butter toast), more oil (butter+jam toast), more fresh oil and more toast (French toast). * Various sandwiches: for example, egg sandwich, leg egg sandwich, beef sandwich, egg sandwich, club sandwich, etc. The biggest difference between Hong Kong tea restaurant sandwiches and other foreign sandwiches is that they can only be made in square bags. Customers can choose whether to "flash" (remove the edge of bread) or add "baked bottom" (make white bread into toast first). * Egg tart (buttered or crispy) * Various breads: for example, meal buns, pineapple buns, pineapple oil (adding a slice of fresh butter to pineapple buns), chicken tail buns * macaroni (pasta), pasta, wheat bran, etc. * Satay beef buns, barbecued pork buns, Portuguese egg tarts and spicy fish buns (canned sardines). 6? The fixed menu of breakfast, lunch, fast food, ordinary meal and special meal served at a specific time usually has several choices, such as A, B and C (for details, see the external link article). * Breakfast usually includes fried eggs, instant noodles or sandwiches with coffee or tea. The most classic breakfast A menu: bread and butter, fried eggs, ham flour, coffee or tea. * Lunch is the same as breakfast. Typical menu includes: bread and butter, ham optional course, barbecued pork soup with pasta, coffee or tea. Unlike breakfast, it is only served at noon (about 165438+ 0 am to 2: 30 pm). Fast food is usually served only at noon. When a guest orders food, it can be delivered to the guest as quickly as possible, which is called fast food. O There is at least one option on the menu of general fast food, but most of them are vegetable head rice (bibimbap), and most of the dishes are prepared in advance, such as chicken curry rice with brisket, which is common in Hong Kong, or braised rice with meat sauce, such as black pepper, onion, ketchup, white sauce, millet (sauce) and beef. Usually served with hot drinks or soda water. The fast food menu generally changes every day. Some tea restaurants set a fixed fast food menu one week in advance, and there are two or more choices on that day. And the contents and dishes of the set meal are actually very flexible. If customers want to change the hot dishes in the set meal to other dishes with the same price, most tea restaurants will accept it. As for some rice with sauce and steak, sauce and steak can be freely matched. Some tea restaurants put soup in their fast food. There are usually Luo Songtang (called red soup) or cream soup (called white soup) to choose from. Some tea restaurants even have China Soup (called Sample Soup or China Soup), and the style of China Soup is basically changing every day. * Ordinary meals are generally served all day, without any time limit. The menu is usually the same all year round. * Afternoon tea is generally based on fried food. Fried chicken moustache (chicken leg, generally written as chicken moustache), fried chicken wings (chicken wings), Cheetos (full name Francisco), French fries, etc. More abundant is a bowl of ham and fried eggs with coffee or tea. * Individual tea restaurants also have "nutritious meals". Basically, the menu is similar to breakfast, the only difference is that the drink must be glass bottle fresh milk or chocolate milk, which is more expensive than breakfast. Generally available all day. Most tea restaurants serve sausages, ham, lunch meat, fried eggs and other high-calorie foods? ? Dishes for customers to choose from, such as sausage rice, ham fried rice with two eggs, etc. You can usually find it on the menu of a tea restaurant. Although these foods are too high in calories and unhealthy, there are still some long-term diners. * Some tea restaurants will serve iron plate meals. Most tea restaurants that focus on noodles and rice will have a variety of dishes, fried rice and fried noodles. Such as Yangzhou fried rice, Xingzhou fried rice, shredded pork fried noodles, dry fried beef river, diced fish and so on. However, there are no dishes like "Hong Kong-style fried rice" or "Hong Kong-style fried rice" in tea restaurants in Hong Kong. Most tea restaurants will have pasta such as car noodles and instant noodles. Instant noodles usually use cheap "top glossy", and more and more tea restaurants will be supplied by Japanese brand Nissin (see below for details). In addition to "top one", instant noodles are generally called "doll noodles" in tea restaurants (this is one of the instant noodles products of Hong Kong Nanshun Food, but because it is widely accepted by Hong Kong people, most Hong Kong people will also call "eating instant noodles" "eating doll noodles"). In addition, in recent years, many tea restaurants also have "fried doll noodles" and spiced diced meat, pork chops and other ingredients. Some tea restaurants will serve trendy noodles such as Yu Danfen and Wonton Noodles. The name of this tea restaurant is usually called "noodle tea restaurant". Porridge and fried dough sticks Some tea restaurants offer all kinds of porridge and fried dough sticks. Barbecue shops will provide roast pork, barbecue, suckling pig, roast goose, roast duck, boiled chicken, fried chicken (brine chicken) and other barbecues. Usually accompanied by noodle soup or white rice. Those with white rice are called roasted rice or pan-head rice. Nowadays, roast goose in tea restaurants and even some restaurants is usually roast duck. Because roast goose is more expensive, roast duck is used instead. However, when ordinary people in Hong Kong go to restaurants or tea restaurants, they are still used to calling it roast goose. [Edit this paragraph] Seats and "set the stage" * Generally, the stage of a tea restaurant will be a square table for four or a round table or a long table for six to eight people. Some are tables for two. * Some tea restaurants will put transparent glass on the countertops. There will be a menu under the cup. * Seats generally have a backrest. The seats in mainstream tea restaurants are generally round stools without chairs. * Some tea restaurants have private rooms (called "stalls" in Hong Kong), which are said to have originated from train stalls. Because the parking space will have more private space, it is very popular with customers. However, in some tea restaurants, the card space is very narrow, and a four-person seat can only accommodate two people at most. * Most tea restaurants still need to "set the stage", especially in the busiest afternoon. "Setting up a stage" means that several strangers sit together. Usually the waiter in a tea restaurant will arrange for the guests to sit down. [Edit this paragraph] Features Most tea restaurants will give each guest a cup of tea after they are seated. This cup of tea is generally tasteless, and Hong Kong people usually use it to clean tableware. Tableware is generally provided in two ways. One is that the waiter will provide suitable tableware after ordering. For example, there will be knives, forks and iron spoons when eating mixed rice, and chopsticks when eating soup powder or fried noodles. The other is that all tableware will be pre-packed in tubes and put on the stage. Chopsticks, knives, forks and spoons will be packed in two separate tubes. The sanitary conditions of some tea restaurants are not satisfactory. Especially tableware (chopsticks, knives, forks, spoons, etc. Sometimes stains will remain, so most of them will wash the tableware with green tea before eating. Before 2007, most tea restaurants did not prohibit customers from smoking. There are even tea restaurant waiters smoking while on duty. This is a major feature of the tea restaurant. But diners who are not good at smoking will be quite disgusted with this. However, since June 5438+ 10/day, 2007, Hong Kong laws prohibit anyone from smoking in indoor restaurants. When a waiter writes a menu for a guest, he usually uses some shorthand symbols. For example, they will use "reverse" instead of "white rice" or "0T" instead of "lemon tea" ("0" means "zero" and is close to "lemon"; T "is the same as" tea ") This is because people who used to work as waiters in tea restaurants have a low level of education, and because the pace of tea restaurants is generally very fast, waiters don't have much time to write down every word on the list and give it to the kitchen. An obvious example is that they use the word "beggar" as a shorthand for the word "noodle", but they don't mean that the right half of the word "noodle" is ""(noodle), not "beggar" (noodle); There are also tea restaurant waiters who use the word "noodles" instead. [8] When a frozen drink is to be chilled, most customers will say "ice walk" or "snow walk". Coffee and black tea will "fly sand with milk", that is, without sugar and milk, lemon tea will be "less sweet" (or write less), that is, without too much sugar water. If the amount of white rice or noodles is not enough and more is needed, the average customer will say "add the bottom". There is an extra charge for "priming" (generally 3 to 5 Hong Kong dollars). In addition, if the rice ordered is not fried with the rice (such as rice with eggs and shrimps), and the guest requests that the rice be fried with the bottom of the pot, it is called "frying the bottom of the pot." "Deep-frying" generally requires an extra charge (usually 3 to 5 yuan). If you want to change the instant noodles into "Qian Chu Ding" or Japanese udon noodles, you should add 1 or 2 yuan. [8] Porridge and noodle soup are generally sprinkled with chopped green onion. People who don't like food can ask for "going green". "Wet frying" is relative to "dry frying". "Wet frying" means wet frying with sauce, and "dry frying" means dry frying with soy sauce. "Wet Fried Beef River" is like a dish? 3? 8 Niuhe and Chek Kok Niuhe, etc. Wet frying is? ? If you like, put it on the bottom of noodles or rice? ? Mixing the bottom layer with the bottom layer can be called "chaos". When a guest orders a hot drink, add "Zou" after the name of the drink, such as "Hua Tian Zou" and "Cha Zou", indicating that condensed milk should be used instead of "Hua Milk" and "Sugar". As Hong Kong people began to pay attention to healthy diet, some guests also asked to add "less sweet" in the name of frozen drinks, such as "frozen lemon tea is less sweet", that is, less syrup. Many desktop utensils used in tea restaurants are provided by beverage manufacturers, which can play the role of advertising. These appliances include toothpick bottles, brackets for holding menu cards and so on. The common suppliers and brands of these utensils are Ahuatian, horlick, Ribena, etc. Due to the cost reduction requirements of tea restaurants, tableware printed with their own names is generally not specially customized. So the dishes used in most tea restaurants are the same pattern. These dishes are easy to buy at the local grocery store.