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Above: Chiu Chau dumplings available at most "dim sum" restaurants in Hong Kong | Floating
Restaurants - Located in
Aberdeen of Hong Kong Island, this is where you can eat seafood inside a big ornate
oriental-looking boat. | |
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| Chinese
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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... [send
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Above: "Cha siu" - roast pork, available at most Chinese restaurants in Hong Kong | |
 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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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.
- 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?)
- Ox
whip - you can guess what this is! (hint: it is in the same category
as mountain oysters) (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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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 | 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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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.
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