Hong Kong's old-fashioned food in the streets
Thousands of years of eating back, a rare visit to Hong Kong, how can not try Hong Kong's old-fashioned food taste Hong Kong authentic snacks, a taste of it? Hong Kong's long-established restaurants are renowned in China and abroad, are after decades and centuries of historical precipitation, absolutely stand up to your picky food requirements!
1. Sang Kee Congee Specialist
Gourmet Alan Choi once praised? Sang Kee is my favorite congee. Sang Kee is my favorite congee store, and its congee is the best congee in Hong Kong. I had to sit down and try it for myself to realize that Mr. Choi was not over-rated at all. The soup base is made with pork bone and scallop for four hours, along with Thai rice and bamboo for three hours, to create a moist and sweet congee, and then you can choose from a variety of fresh congee ingredients, and then roll it out on the spot, the strength of the 40-year old store is evident in the small bowl of congee.
Recommendation: We highly recommend the congee with meatballs, beef and fish bladder, and sashimi. The congee comes with Sang Kee's own pork balls and a limited supply of fish bladders every day, which is rich in flavor and sweetness, and even Alan Choi has been raving about it.
Transportation: Sang Kee is located on Beacon Street in Sheung Wan, which is not easy to find, and is an old store in an alley. Take the MTR to Sheung Wan station, exit A2, turn right and walk for about 5 minutes.
2. Yung Kee
In the 1940s to a siu mei stall opened, more than 60 years to stand. Wine home more than once by Chinese and foreign food critics called Hong Kong's most representative eateries. Famous Guangdong and Hong Kong roast goose is known as ? Flying Roasted Goose is the most famous roast goose in Guangdong and Hong Kong. It is also listed as one of Hong Kong's top ten handmade souvenirs. Charcoal grill roast goose is plump and fat, thin and crispy skin, color like red dates, sweet and fragrant in the mouth but not greasy.
Yung Kee also has a limited to autumn and winter supply of raw fried glutinous rice, literally raw fried, from raw glutinous rice to fried rice, to spend more than 30 minutes, test enough master effort.
Recommended: to eat at Yung Kee, in addition to the roast goose is a must, loose skin eggs and sour ginger, Prince fish noodles is also a must for those who will eat.
Reference price: HK$250 per person
Transportation: the store is in Wellington Street, Central, take the MTR in Central Station, exit D2, along D'Aguilar Street, a three-minute walk that is.
3. Luk Yu Tea Room
It is a long-established teahouse overflowing with classical flavor, both in terms of the production of traditional dim sum and the store's decorations, highlighting the characteristics of traditional elegance. The tea room*** has three floors, where you can
taste the `specialty dim sum that is hard to get in other restaurants, all of which are decades old.
Lu Yu Tea Room has maintained the look of an old Hong Kong restaurant, from the pale calligraphy on the walls, the antique ceiling fans on the ceiling to the old waiters who still wear white shirts and black outfits and carry hot kettles around to refill the customers' teas, all exuding a light and traditional atmosphere.
As its reputation grows, the quality may not be what it used to be, but the reviews are still favorable and it is still recommended.
Recommended: fire duck three tubes, Yangzhou fried shrimp cake, fresh lotus glutinous chicken rolls, shrimp dumplings, pink fruit, Pu'er tea
Reference price: 40-100 HKD / person
4. Lanfang Yuan
is a long-established Hong Kong teahouse, the first afternoon at first glance does not look too eye-catching store, but the delicious stocking milk tea, known throughout the territory for decades, the stocking milk tea is not only a good choice, but also a great way to make the most of your time.
Known as Hong Kong's first delicious teahouse, the store is simple, but the standard of food is superb. It is no wonder that many foodies have put down harsh words, ? If you haven't eaten at Lan Fong Yuen, you haven't eaten at a Hong Kong teahouse.
Recommended: mellow and tasty stocking milk tea, cold and soothing salty lemon seven, tender and juicy pork chop buns, creative and full of green onion oil chicken steak Lodging (fished out of the front of a diced noodles), ? Sauce? The heart of the unique ciders almost all the dishes are the signature dishes of the old Hong Kong-style teahouse Lan Fong Yuen.
Reference price: HK$40 per person
Transportation: Hong Kong Island Line, Central Station, Exit D2, cross Queen's Road Central, walk to Cochrane Street and turn right to Knotts Street.
5. Lamma Island? Rainbow Seafood Restaurant
This seafood restaurant has won the Hong Kong Culinary Awards many times, and has opened three stores in a row on this district side street, where Chow Yun Fat, Joey Yung, Simon Yam, Shu Qi, and Wu Jianhao have all come to feast.
Recommended: The butter lobster is so tasty that many tourists make the trip just to try it. Steamed scallops with garlic and vermicelli are also a must.
Transportation: Walk from the exit of Hong Kong MTR station to Central Pier 4, take the ferry to Sok* Wan on Lamma Island and walk to First Street to find it.
6. Xiyuan Restaurant
Xiyuan Restaurant, which has practiced MSG-free cooking since the 1980s, specializes in traditional old-fashioned Cantonese cooking. Here the crab meat fried Xinzhu rice noodles belong to the must-eat choice, customers order, the waiter will roll out the food truck, the red crab meat, fresh shrimp, Jinhua ham shredded and other materials served in front of the customer, put in a casserole dish in the present fried, rice noodles fried silk clear, dry and refreshing.
Recommended:? From that early into the classic skin soft texture fluffy, juice fresh sauce thick honey barbecue pork buns, to that every table must be ordered? The most important thing is that you can't have the same kind of food as you do at the same time.
Hours: Monday-Friday 11;00-24:00
Saturday and Sunday 10:00-24:00
Transportation: Xiyuan Restaurant is located in Causeway Bay, Causeway Bay, MTR to the Causeway Bay Station, Exit F, the extension of the Enping Road, a three-minute walk to reach.
7. Chih Kee
The store's famous wonton noodles, wontons wrapped in a traditional and authentic way, one bite at a time, from the pasta, soup base to the wonton fillings, all with meticulous, tried to know that customers like clouds come to Chih Kee is not a waste of time.
Recommendation: The limited daily supply of swimming shrimp wontons is the restaurant's signature dish, which is so popular that it usually sells out by noon. So get there early if you want to get your fill.
Recommendations: Wonton noodles are a must, as are beef brisket with noodles and black pepper pork chop with rice.
Price: HK$40 per person
Transportation: Chi Kee is located on Percival Street in Causeway Bay, MTR Causeway Bay Station Exit A, turn right along Russell Street and walk for about 3 minutes.
8. Kung Wo Tong Turtle Ling Paste
Founded in 1904, Kung Wo Tong is a long-established Chinese medicine drink store in Hong Kong, famous for its turtle ling paste.
The Turtle Ling Paste of Kung Wo Tong is based on the health formula of the Qing Dynasty court, and the herbs used to refine the paste are all famous and valuable, including 5-10 years old medicinal tortoise board, Poria cocos, Szechuan Lonicera, licorice, etc. The paste is also known for its ability to treat skin diseases and regulate the skin's condition. It is said to have miraculous effects on treating skin diseases, regulating the stomach and intestines, and nourishing the face and skin.
In addition to turtle jelly, there are many other teas here that are good for the body, so give them a try.
Recommended: Turtle jelly
Reference price: HK$39
Transportation: Exit A of Causeway Bay Station of the Island Line, walk towards Percival Street and arrive in about 10 minutes.
9. Xu Liushan
The best is the variety of takeaways, i.e., the various first-make cups of mango lao shang (because of the tempting promotional price when you buy two cups), but there are things you have to have on their own to get them. Here's a recommendation for a ? Bird's Nest Pudding? Don't be tempted by its name, it's actually an authentic mango dessert. Served up on a white boat-shaped porcelain plate, in the middle of a large plate, sandwiched between the fruit of the mango pudding, covered with a coconut ice cream ball, the top of the ball sprinkled with a spoonful of bird's nest, and then there is also a mango ice cream ball at one end of the plate, and then around the arrangement of a few pieces of fresh mango meat, so a dessert can be eaten in the three kinds of production of mango, coupled with a mellow coconut and smooth bird's nest, so that people will be able to taste the taste of the future.
Recommended: Mango Sago Loyal (everything related to mango), Bird's Nest Pudding, Clam Cream
Reference Price: HK$40 per person
Transportation: Causeway Bay MTR Station, Exit A, forget about ten minutes' walk in the direction of Wan Chai.
Note: There are often ID number discounts, such as ID cards have 3 5 characters. Friday to Xu Liushan 60% off.
10. Ming Court
The Hong Kong Tourism Board has been awarded the Hong Kong Tourism Board? The Executive Chef has more than 30 years of experience as a chef, and his dishes are guaranteed to be of high quality in terms of both appearance and flavor.
Recommended:? The abalone slices are flavorful, and the noodles are flavorless and absorbent. Fresh abalone slices braised with noodles is highly recommended by celebrity chef Jacky Yu Kin Chi.
Transportation: Located on the 6th floor of Langham Place Hotel, Shanghai Street, Mongkok, MTR Mongkok Station Exit C3, a three-minute walk via Langham Place shopping mall.
11. Lau Sum Kee Noodle House
Alan Choi once said: ? Liu Sen Ji's own noodles are clear, medium thickness and full of elasticity. Founded in 1956, Liu Sen Kee Noodle House has been insisting on using home-made bamboo noodles for many years, playing noodles for 4 hours a day, so how can such carefully made noodles not be delicious?
Recommendation: The shrimp lo mein is a must. Ginger and scallion, goose intestines and cow pak choi leaves are recommended by Mr. Choi's tasting, which are crispy in the mouth and especially flavorful.
Transportation: Located at Science Museum Road, Tsim Sha Tsui, Kowloon, exit D1 from MTR Hung Hom Station. Walk along the footbridge for 2 minutes to the ground level.
12. Man Kee Dessert
Read in a magazine, said Hong Kong's most representative desserts there is another is Man Kee, want to be good, and sells something very different from Hsu Liushan, the store's flavor is even different. Hsu Liushan is the kind of old-fashioned small store, while Man Kee is a change from the traditional dessert store simple decoration, engaged in a Western-style modern style. That's why Mang Kee, which started out in Saigon, has become a well-known small store in Hong Kong and is a chain everywhere.
Recommended: Yang Zhi Gan Gan, Durian Sticky Rice Cake, Mango Pancake
Reference price: HK$40 per person
Transportation: Tsuen Wan Line Mongkok Station, Exit C3, 10th Floor, Langham Place, Argyle Street, Mongkok, Kowloon.
11. Sugar Dynasty
Sugar Dynasty layout is not only magnificent, plus its traditional methods of sugar water is also very sophisticated, the material, the use of raw materials itself unique sweetness as the protagonist, and rock sugar, cane sugar is the supporting role of the reconciliation, to ensure that more than one may not want to eat, such as: almond milk, walnut milk, tofu flowers and so on. It is also good for health and skin care, and is suitable for both young and old. Therefore, the emergence of sugar dynasty, led the trend of eating sugar water, driving people to eat sugar water habit and really enjoy the fun of dessert.
Recommended: If you want to choose the most traditional and classic desserts, then the original wooden barrel tofu flower is none other than, in addition to almond dew, walnut dew is also quite good.
Reference price: HK$80 per person
Transportation: Tsuen Wan Line Tsim Sha Tsui Station, Exit A1, along the Coastal Defense Road towards Canton Road, about 15 minutes walk.
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