Hong Kong cuisine is mainly distributed in Tsim Sha Tsui, Mong Kok, Central, Causeway Bay and other areas. The most famous food areas are Lan Kwai Fong, Suhao SOHO, Lei Yue Mun, Lamma Island and Aberdeen Typhoon Shelter. There are four main types of Hong Kong specialties: seafood, snacks in tea restaurants, roasted meat and desserts.
Hong kong-style seafood
Hong Kong is located on an island, which provides fresh seafood all the year round. In addition, Hong Kong chefs are skilled, so it is almost a must for tourists to eat seafood in Hong Kong.
Lei Yue Mun, Lamma Island, Aberdeen Typhoon Shelter, Saigon, and other seafood restaurants such as Fuyao, Fusheng, Fengcheng, Taihu Seafood City, Xiji, Xiyuan and Liyuan are located in Tsim Sha Tsui, Wan Chai, Mong Kok, Causeway Bay and Kwun Tong. Tea restaurant snacks
The tea restaurant is said to be a unique style of Hong Kong, which combines western-style catering with Hong Kong characteristics and exhibits its own authentic culture. The specialty foods in the tea restaurant are Yuanyang, porridge noodles and rice noodles, egg tarts, pig bag and so on.
There are many famous tea restaurants in Hong Kong, such as Tandao, which sells egg tarts, Macau tea restaurant, Yinlong, which is famous for its noodles, Chezai noodles, and Fu Ji, which is famous for selling porridge.
Cantonese cuisine roasted meat
Roast meat is the most well-known food in Hong Kong. Whether it's famous roast goose, pigeon or barbecued pork with delicious sauce, it's delicious and tender, which always makes people memorable.
The most famous roasted meat shops are Zhong Ji of Mobile, Chen Ji, who is famous for roasting goose in deep well, and Longhua, who is famous for squab in Sha Tin.
Hong Kong Style dessert
Dessert is the favorite of Hong Kong people. Double-skin milk, sesame paste, mango and bean curd are all mouth-watering, and many dessert shops with a history of 100 years have been developed, and their hot selling scenes can be seen in the streets and lanes.
Manji, Tangchao, Xu Liushan and Xinghualou are all big-name dessert chain stores in Hong Kong, and many small shops famous for their single products sell cheap and good street desserts, such as Da Liang Ba Ji, Huluguan, Yishun and Yuanji.
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herbal tea
Herbal tea is a kind of drink made from compound or single native herbs in Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao. There is a saying among the people that "drinking a cup of herbal tea is not good for me, but for seeking a doctor". Tea drinking is prevalent in Hong Kong, and herbal tea shops of all sizes have become one of the symbols of Hong Kong. Herbal tea has a long history, and there are many varieties, such as Wang Laoji Herbal Tea, Sanhutang Herbal Tea, Huang Zhenlong Herbal Tea, Dashenggong Herbal Tea and Twenty-four Herbal Tea, with different tastes and effects.
Guiling ointment
Turtle paste is a traditional Chinese medicine ice product made of chick turtle, Smilax glabra, radix rehmanniae, dandelion and honeysuckle. Because of its bitter taste, many stores also add sweet red bean paste to it, which makes this traditional Chinese medicine taste like dessert. It's hot in Hong Kong, so it's very popular to eat Guiling Ointment to clear away heat and detoxify.
Beef balls
Hong Kong beef balls are famous for their juicy tendons and full bite. In Stephen Chow, the movie "God of Food" was exaggerated to be used as table tennis. Legend has it that during the reign of Shunzhi in the Qing Dynasty, the Wangs in the south of the Yangtze River carefully developed the characteristic Niuwan, and later generations of the Wangs moved to Hong Kong. Niuwan became a famous snack in Hong Kong and even loved by the Queen of England, also known as "tribute pill". Beef balls are usually cooked with rice noodles. They can also be cooked with shrimp, cashew nuts and other ingredients or fried with quail eggs and hibiscus balls. They are crisp and tender outside, sweet and delicious.
won ton noodle with shrimps
Wonton Noodles, a fresh shrimp from Hong Kong, is just like Shanghai's steamed buns, and it is a masterpiece of food that must be tasted. Wonton is the size of a baby's fist, and the stuffing is all made of intact big shrimp. Noodles should be made of egg noodles, and the taste is strong. Noodles in soup are also very particular, and they should be made of pig bones, dried fish and dried shrimps. With these techniques, it can be called authentic Hong Kong-style Wonton Noodles.
Fish egg
Fish eggs, also called fish balls, are delicate and delicious. Yu Danfen is made of smooth and fine rice flour as the main ingredient, dried fish and pork bone soup as the soup base, and fish eggs, beef balls, fried meat rolls, fish pieces and other ingredients. The entrance of rice noodles is fragrant and smooth, and the ingredients have their own flavors.
Beef brisket in broth
Beef brisket is the belly part of cattle, surrounded by fascia, which has the effect of beauty beauty. It is a classic Cantonese cuisine material and one of the special snacks. In Hong Kong, beef brisket is usually eaten in curry and clear soup, and beef brisket noodles and beef brisket noodles are derived. Genuine beef brisket must be boiled with beef bones for several hours to make the beef brisket soft and delicious, and at the same time make the essence dissolve in the soup. Beef brisket in clear soup will also be added with white radish, which is more delicious and refreshing.
Fried three treasures
This is the collective name of Hong Kong people for three kinds of common street snacks. The practice is similar to that of making tofu with meat. The minced shad meat is brewed in eggplant, green pepper and tofu, and then fried in an oil pan, so it is called "frying", "brewing" and "three treasures". When you eat it, you usually use bamboo sticks to string it, just like eating fish eggs, and then add soy sauce. In addition to the above three kinds of food, there will be herring meat stuffed with mushrooms, red sausage, wonton skin, sausage, bell pepper and so on.
Egg waffle
One of the authentic street snacks in Hong Kong. Juice made of eggs, sugar, flour, light milk, etc. is poured between two special honeycomb-shaped iron templates and baked on the fire. The poured eggs are golden yellow, with the smell of cake, and the middle is half empty, which makes them taste special when bitten. Now some stores have added different flavors such as chocolate, shredded coconut and black sesame to traditional eggs.
Chezai noodles
It is a cheap pasta in Hong Kong. Small stalls selling cooked food are crowded with streets, and wooden carts selling car-made noodles are placed with metal "cooking compartments", which are respectively filled with noodles and ingredients. The ingredients are usually fish eggs, beef balls, pigskin, pig red, radish and other cheap dishes. Customers can freely choose the ingredients for noodles, and usually they can have a full meal for more than ten yuan.
Wanzaichi
One of the common street snacks in Hong Kong, which used to be sold by vendors on the street, was named after it was filled in a small bowl. In the past, many vendors took scattered shark's fin from restaurants, added mushrooms, fungus, shredded pork, soup, monosodium glutamate, horseshoe powder and so on. When eating, pepper, Zhejiang vinegar, sesame oil and other seasonings are usually added, and fish and shredded lettuce can also be added. Nowadays, the bowl wings are mainly made of vermicelli, and there is no shark fin component, but the flavor is still not to be missed.