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| Hong Kong is the culinary capital of Asia. The cuisine in Hong Kong can be described as a Chinese, specifically Cantonese, style cuisine with extensive influences from Western cuisine, due to Hong Kong's long history of being a meeting point between Chinese and Western cultures. It is a place which offers superb cuisine from around the world and an infinite choice of restaurants. Complex combinations and international gourmet expertise have given Hong Kong a reputation of Gourmet Paradise and World's Fair of Food. Top China Travel chose some signature food and famous restaurants for your reference only. Hong Kong cuisine is waiting for your explore! |
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 Hong Kong Signature Food
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 Hong Kong Dim Sum |
 If you are on a tour of Hong Kong, never fail to bite into Dim Sum, the most tasty collection of delicacies served in bamboo steamers, or crisp Peking Duck carved at your table. Dim Sum is the most famous in the long list of dishes in a Hong Kong meal. Impressively shaped, bite-size portions of dumplings with lightly seasoned fillings of meat and seafish, fluffy buns with various fillings and glutinous rice - all deliciously steamed - just ignite the tastebuds.
Hong Kong Dim Sum is undoubtedly the best in the world. Dim sum restaurants in Hong Kong were the forerunners for those in America, and can be regared as one of Hong Kong¡¯s must try experiences.
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Cantonese Cuisine |
 Hong Kong is best known for a branch of Cantonese style of cuisine that has diverged from its origin in Guangdong. Cantonese people give very much attention to the freshness of food. This cooking is lighter to some extent than most regional Chinese cuisines.
Preparation methods usually involve stir-frying in shallow water or oil in a wok. Flavors and nutrition of the food is preserved as cooking time is short. Much oil is not consumed for steaming vegetable and fish. Ingredients like ginger, garlic, onion, vinegar, and sugar are used for preparing sauces. |
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Hong Kong-style Western Food |
 In Hong Kong, besides the traditional western style of food which is particulary popular in the young generation of Hong Kong, Hong Kong-style Western food, which is localized with Chinese tastes and contains Chinese and specifically Cantonese influences, such as steak marinated in soy sauce, served in a soy sauce dominated gravy, and with fried rice as on the side, or wok-fried spaghetti with meat sauce, roots deeply in Hong Kong's daily life.
Fast food joints are abundant in Hong Kong as well. Brands like Mc Donald's ,Big Mac and Burger King are present in every corner of Hong Kong. These joints are specially patronised by office-goers, who can get a quick and filling diet at lunchtime here.
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Hawker Food |
 These are basically streetside food stalls, operated by usually 1 or 2 people pushing a cart, which is usually very mobile and portable, allowing the business man freedom to sell snacks in which ever area is most populated at a particular point in time.
Visitors can savour varieties of hawker food along the streets and night
markets. Popular dishes sold by these hawkers are wantan noodle, beef noodle,
soy bean curd and fishballs on sticks.
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Hong Kong-style Drink |
 Non-alcoholic beverages are served at restaurants of all classes, but most notably at Cha Can Ting , a unique kind of restaurants in Hong Kong. It is inclusive of Hong Kong-style milk tea, Red Bean Ice, Soy Milk and Sugar Can Juice. Rock sugar and syrup are commonly used to add sweetness.
Some beverages that was originated in the tea culture of Taiwan, such as bubble tea and honey green tea, had been brought to Hong Kong and become part of Hong Kong's beverage culture.
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Famous Restaurants
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 Cuisine Cuisine |
Address: IFC Tower 2, 2nd Floor, Central |
Note: Some of the tastiest Dim Sum in the city, served up by Hong Kong's most talented Dim Sum chefs. If you are looking for a traditional setting, you'll want to look elsewhere; Cuisine Cuisine has a sublimely modern interior inside Hong Kong's biggest skyscraper. It offers unbeatable views over the harbor. Despite the modern interior, the cuisine is a strictly traditional interpretation. Staff are proficient in English, as well as Mandarin. |
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Yung Kee |
Address: 32 ¨C 40 Wellington Street, Central |
Note: One of Hong Kong's most famous restaurants, renowned for its roast meats, particularly roast goose. Although the restaurant is generally noted for its dinner selections, it also serves up some excellent Dim Sum. It has a famous vetting process for chefs, and the chefs exhausting training is apparent in the quality of the food. The atmosphere is exactly as you'd expect in a Hong Kong Dim Sum restaurant, manic, diners descend on Yung Kee at lunch time and the noise and action is all part of the Dim Sum experience. |
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Tsui Hang Village |
Address: 2nd Floor , New World Tower, 16-18 Queens Road, Central. |
Note: With a lot of branch restaurants in both Hong Kong and in Guangzhou, Tsui Hang has regional experience in it's delivery of Dim Sum and it shows. Tasty Dim Sum is delivered inside a traditional Chinese interior and by servers equally decked out in customary costume. Tsui Hang also delivers Dim Sum at very equitable prices. |
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Western Market |
Address: Western Market, Des Voeux Road Central, Sheung Wan |
Note: A fantastic setting inside the colonial styled Western Market building. Food here is decent, if not spectacular, while the ad-hoc daily layout of seats can mean your elbows end up in someone else's soup. However, what makes Western Market worth stopping by are its daily tea dances. You can enjoy your Dim Sum, while watching, or participating, in a traditional English Tea Dance. Prices are fair considering the fantastic setting. |
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