Hong Kong Food features a blend of Eastern and Western cuisine. This city is known as the culinary capital of Asia. One of the most favorite foods of Hong Kong is Dim Sum. It has got fillings of meat and sea fish, buns and rice. For dining in Hong Kong there are a large number of good restaurants like the Jumbo Restaurant and the Ocean City Restaurant and Night Club.
The people of Hong Kong love to take tea (Yum cha). They usually take it with bow law yau, which is a bun, stuffed with butter or yau char gwai, deep fried dough.
Hong Kong food shows a lot of influence from Thailand, India, Vietnam, Singapore and Malaysia. Some of the regional cuisines of Hong Kong are:
- Shanghainese food where the food is shredded or diced; fried in sesame oil with pots of garlic and pepper.
- Har gau (steamed shrimp dumplings); Cha siu bao (barbecue pork bun) and shiu mai (steamed and minced pork with shrimp).
- Chiu chow that is served with sauce.
- Hakka food
- Sichuan food
Some of the regional drinks of Hong Kong are as follows:
- Kaolian and Maotai.
- Zhian jing
- Yeun yeung
- San Miguel and Tsingtao
- Liang hua pei
Tsim Sha Tsui is one of the major food districts of Hong Kong. Since Chinese constitutes the major portion of population in Hong Kong, so the Chinese cuisine is served at home.
The Hong Kong food uses the following ingredients in its various preparations:
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- Century egg
- Lotus seed
- Salted duck egg
- Dong Gu
- Chinese Sausage
- Red Bean
- Dried Scallop
- Hoisin Sauce
- Chinese cabbage
- Dried Shrimp
- Jujube
- Kai-lan
Some of the eastern specialties of Hong Kong food are:
- Wonton noodle
- Buddha's delight, Mantou
- Fish balls on a stick, Chou Tofu
- Chrysanthemum tea
- Curry Chicken
- Cutlet Porkchop, Vegetable with Oyster sauce
- Siu mei, Char siu
- Peking Duck
- Sushi, Sashimi
- Tofu pudding, beef jerky, Haw flakes
- Scallop, Shrimp
- Taro dumpling, Cha siu baau
- Shark fin soup
- Lai Cha, Yuanyang
- Wife Cake, Egg tart
- Poon Choi
Some of the western specialties of Hong Kong food are:
- Big Mac, Hotdog, Pizza
- Spaghetti with Vienna Sausage, Beef Brisket
- Maxim cakes, Tiramisu
- Quiche, Lamb Mignon
- Horlicks, Coke
- French Toast, Instant noodles
- Sirloin steak, Buffalo wings
- Espresso, Iced coffee
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