There are many street snack streets in Hong Kong. The earliest "food street" is located at the junction of Stanley Street and Graham Street in Central. There are many cooked food vendors selling breakfast, lunch and dinner, desserts and syrup (sweet soup). Later, due to the 1997 financial turmoil in Hong Kong, the rent of shops dropped sharply, which made the vendors affordable, so they began to operate in shops and became more and more popular.
There are more and more shops, and most of them will be concentrated in one place. For example, Garden Street in Mong Kok and Temple Street in Yau Ma Tei have a large number of street snacks for sale. For example, Garden Street in Mong Kok and Temple Street in Yau Ma Tei have a large number of street snacks for sale.
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1. Street snacks in Hong Kong:
Street food in Hong Kong has a long history. Since the19th century, there have been street stalls in Hong Kong, all of which are needed to make a living and take care of the diet of the lower classes. As for street food stalls, they developed most vigorously from the 1950s to the early 1960s.
There are many kinds of snacks on sale and they are cheap, so they are very popular. Later, due to health problems, the government gradually expelled them, so these roadside stalls began to enter stores to maintain their business. Although they no longer "cart" on the roadside, the food they sell is still street snacks, so they are very popular.
There are many kinds of street snacks in Hong Kong, such as eggs, bowl wings, stinky tofu, lettuce and fish soup, fish balls, glutinous rice cakes, beef offal, plaid cakes, fried squid whiskers, steamed dumplings, fried three treasures and so on. Most of them are packed in paper bags or styrofoam boxes, but when eaten with bamboo sticks or plastic spoons, they are ready to use, without any facilities such as skewers and dining tables. According to the Apple Daily on August 8, 2002, Hong Kong people eat 55 tons of fish balls every day, which is an amazing number, showing Hong Kong people's love for street snacks.
From the characteristics and development of street snacks in Hong Kong, we can see the unique characteristics of food culture in Hong Kong. In addition to fast-paced life and work, Hong Kong people can also show their fast-paced mentality in food. Not only do they have to eat fast, but even people who make food have to survive in society soon. Street snacks just show this feature.
Second, the historical development:
Street snacks first appeared in street stalls. The development of street stalls has a long history. As early as the1880s, street stalls appeared, doing business day and night. At that time, there were also big-name stalls, which were also sold on the street. They have government permits, and the exhibition area is larger than that of vendors, similar to vendors.
Later, "food street" began to appear. The so-called "food street" means that some cooked food vendors gather in one place to sell food to the lower classes. The earliest "food street" is located at the junction of Stanley Street and Graham Street in Central.
There are many cooked food vendors selling breakfast, lunch and dinner, snacks and sweet soup in the street. A large number of vendors selling street snacks began to appear in the 1950s and 1960s. From the 1960s to the 1960s, the government began to curb street stalls that blocked streets in order to rectify the city appearance and re-plan the city. 1997 After the reunification, the government cracked down on these unlicensed hawkers because of the hygiene problems caused by street food, resulting in a sudden decline in the number of street hawkers. In recent years, the number of street vendors has dropped sharply, but street snacks are no longer limited to "streets".
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