Hong Kong Food

Cantonese Cuisine is the main food here. Dim Sum is probably one of the most famous snacks in Hong Kong. Also Roast Crispy Goose, Hong Kong Soup and Xiajiao can not be missed.

Semi-pentagonal Wonton is known as ch��o sh��u (literally means "Crossed hands��). The dish is usually served in a hot broth, garnished with leafy vegetables, and wonton dumplings. The types of leafy vegetables used are usually kailan also known as Chinese kale.
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People in Hong Kong regularly Yum Cha (tea and dim sum). There, the tea places can prove that point very well. They offer tea, coffee, dim sum and quick meals, and many office workers often have breakfast or lunch there. Hong Kong people take the habit, after the British, of drinking afternoon tea from 15:00 to 16:00.
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Local cooking features seafood prominently. Do venture out to the outlying islands, such as Lamma Island and Sai Kung, and stopover at the Jumbo Kingdom. Jumbo is an icon and theme park at sea on Shum Wan Pier Drive, Wong Chuk Hang, and Aberdeen. When you place an order, do try Stir-fired Crab with garlic, green onion, red pepper, etc. It's famous enough to be offered in all Cantonese restaurants menus.
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Fish Balls is a kind of typical Hong Kong snack which made of fish meat. According to a statistic in 2002, the daily average consumption of Fish Balls in Hong Kong is 55 metric ton (about 3.75 million Fish Balls).
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Many housewives know how to make a bowl of superb soup for their husbands and children. The soup ingredients are mostly fish or chicken. It takes about three to four hours to cook soup by slow fire.

Pineapple Bread is one kind of sweat bread originated in Hong Kong. After some time of baking, the appearance of Pineapple Bread tends to turn to golden and become concavo-convex crisp, looking much like a pineapple, hence gaining this name. A baking mixture of sugar, eggs, flour and lard is placed on the surface of the pineapple. These crisp skins, as the essence of plain bread, deliver the best flavor while they are hot. The most delicious Pineapple Bread is the perfect combination of sweat crisp surface and soft bread.
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Fresh from tasting traditional Hong Kong snacks, you may continue on to sample some Poon Choi. It is a series of traditional dishes, especially popular in New Territories. Poon Choi can be cooked with different ingredients. For instance, you can find a Poon Choi dish using squid, pork, duck or fish as the main ingredient. Usually, the cooked ingredients of Poon Choi are put in a wooden, steel basin or a clay pot.

Goose and roast pork are served with plum sauce, dark sauce, and chili paste. All of which tasted authentic and home made. The plum sauce��s most definitely home made, not as thick as those off the shelve type but tasted quite a lot nicer.

People in Hong Kong add some very fresh ingredients to the rice porridge they cook. For instance, Tingzai Porridge is a kind of rice porridge with pork, peanut, squid, fish slice and so on. 'Tingzai' means 'small boat'. It's said that Tingzai Porridge was sold by the fishermen in Sheung Shui of Hong Kong in the past. It is so popular that some big restaurants also offer it.

The so-called Rickshaw Noodles is mainly made of instant noodle with a lot of ingredients such as hogskin, fish balls, sirloin, carrots and so on. Added some soup and sauce, all of the above materials can become a kind of fast food and be popular with the Hong Kong people in the 1960��s. In the past, vendors always sold this food in street corners with wooded cars. It is a good way to serve grassroots. That��s why Rickshaw Noodles obtained its name.
Add: Usually all Chinese restaurants in Hong Kong serve Rickshaw Noodles