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When it comes to Chinese food, there certainly is a good variety
to choose from - Szechuen (spicy), Beijing (e.g. Peking duck),
Guangdong (plenty of that since Hong Kong is in Guangdong, most
famous kind would be "dim
sum"), Teochew / Swatow (e.g. marinated duck), Shanghai
(spicy noodles, small dumplings), just to name a few kinds.
 If
you are a seafood lover, it is plentiful in Hong Kong. There are
countless restaurants that have fish tanks outside (and in) displaying
the goods, and you can even point and choose.
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Must
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Egg
tarts - you
must try these. They are my favorite. Available at most bakeries
(the cake shop at just about every MTR
station usually has them in the morning), they smell great and taste
great! In Cantonese, it is "daan tard". You can find them
in dim sum
restaurants also. more...
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Above: "Cha siu" - roast
pork, available at most Chinese restaurants in Hong Kong |
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 Roast
pork - also a must!
Available at Chinese fast food places and local restaurants. If
you see cooked chickens and slices of cooked meat hanging in the
window, you can probably find it there. You can get roast pork with
rice for US$3 or so. Roast pork in Cantonese is "char siu".
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 Cha
Siu Bao - roast pork buns...
yum, yum! There are two kinds, steamed and baked. The baked ones
are available in the morning at all the little cake shops in the
MTR stations.
The steamed ones are available at many Chinese restaurants that
sell "dim sum"
(i.e. snacks) during morning and lunch hours.
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Exotic foods
- you should try these and then tell your friends about it!
- Stinky tofu
- fermented tofu deep-fried. The smell is horrendous. They can
be found in some Shanghaiese restaurants, I think. (One store
on the "goldfish
street" in Mongkok
is spotted selling it. 2008.9)
- Jelly fish
- known as "hoi jit" in Chinese restaurants
- Thousand-year
egg - eggs black inside, but not really
that old! more
- Pork brains - kind of
like tofu, with slightly more texture and body.
- Frog - often cooked together
with rice, tastes and feels like chicken.
- Snake
- a delicacy, very rich, not recommended in large amount unless
you know what you are doing. Also tastes and feels like chicken
(what does not?) - well, the skin doesn't feel like chicken
when you hold it alive.
- Ox whip - you can guess
what this is! (hint: it is in the same category as mountain
oysters) (It does not taste like chicken!)
- Chicken "forget"
- you might call them molehill oysters! They don't taste
like chicken either!
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snake
shop window front
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- Duck's feet / Chicken feet
- quite common and you can always find them in dim-sum
restaurants. more...
- Intestines and Inerds
- prepared in many different ways, they come from chickens,
geese, pork, beef; you name it, they have it.
- Dog - in Hong Kong, they
usually come hot. There is no specific restaurant that sell
them, but you can find the raw material in any bigger supermarkets,
canned or refrigerated. Now of course I am talking about hotdogs,
since dog eating had been made illegal years ago! So if you
want to eat man's best friend, you will have to go to Korea!
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Above: "dim sum" available
for take out outside a restaurant on Cheung
Chau Island |
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Miscellaneous local
foods
- "Cheung
fan" - steamed rolled up pasta
- claypot rice
- steamy hot, a favorite in winter months
 French
toast Hong Kong style - they put peanut butter in between two
slices. Try it, you may like it even though I don't!
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Fruits
- follow this
link
Desserts
- follow this
link
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Foreign
Foods - Foreign
to the locals, that is. After eating Chinese food for a few
meals, you will probably crave for something familiar - if not,
your kids will. Fear not, these are there waiting for you:
- McDonald's - there are hundreds of them
- KFC
- Pizza Hut - dine-in & delivery both; but the pizzas taste
slightly different
- Spagetti House
- Hardee's
- Pizza Box (formerly Domino's Pizza) - no dine-in I know of,
delivery only
- Oliver's - sandwiches and baked potatoes; there are a number
of them
- Deli France - breads, sandwiches, soup, etc.
See also: fast
food in Hong Kong.
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Real
Foreign Foods - foreign to both the locals and
westerners. Hong Kong is such an international metropolis that
you can find just about any kind of restaurants here. French,
Italian, Singaporean, Japanese, Greek, Indonesian, Spanish, Thai,
Indian, Korean, Mongolian, German, ... just to name a few. But
how authentic they are, you will be the judge!
 Pictured
below is what sometimes known as the SOHO district (South of Hollywood
- Hollywood Road, that is). Close to the financial district, it
is crowded with restaurants of all kinds. You can easily reach
it via the escalators
going up from Central
to Mid-Levels.
Above: SOHO and Lan
Kwai Fong are known for its many restaurants.
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