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A bowl of snake soup with condiments of shredded lemon leaves and fried dough. Snake soup or stew (Chinese: 蛇羹; pinyin: shé gēng; Jyutping: se4 gang1) is a popular Cantonese delicacy and health supplement in Hong Kong, which contains the meats of at least two types of snakes as the main ingredients.
Over time, Hong Kong chefs have updated the classic recipe to appeal to customers. Some of these developments include: Green Shark's Fin & Prawn Dumpling (翡翠魚翅灌湯餃) in which the fin is mixed with vegetable juice during cooking for colour and flavour. Shark's Fin & Prawn Dumpling with Bamboo Pith (竹笙魚翅灌湯餃)
Put chai ko (Chinese: 缽仔糕 or 砵仔糕; Cantonese Yale: buht jái gōu) is a popular snack in Hong Kong. [1] It is a rice cake made from white or brown sugar, long-grain rice flour with a little wheat starch or cornstarch. Sometimes red beans are also added. The batter is poured into porcelain bowls and steamed until cooked through. Then ...
Poon choi also represents Hong Kong's food culture and creativity. Although it is a traditional cuisine of Hong Kong walled villages the ingredients have changed over the past decades and become more diversified to suit peoples' varying palates and tastes. [8] Nowadays, Poon Choi stores are being launched in the urban districts.
Wife cake. A sweetheart cake or wife cake or marriage pie is a traditional Chinese cake with a thin crust of flaky pastry, made with a filling of winter melon, almond paste, and sesame, and spiced with five spice powder. [1] "
Crispy fried chicken (simplified Chinese: 炸子鸡; traditional Chinese: 炸子雞) is a standard dish in the Cantonese cuisine of southern China and Hong Kong. [1] The chicken is fried in such a way that the skin is extremely crunchy, but the white meat is relatively soft. [2]
In June 2014, the government of Hong Kong listed the pineapple bun as a part of Hong Kong's intangible cultural heritage. Tai Tung Bakery in Yuen Long, which had been making pineapple buns for more than 70 years, was a key proponent of including the technique for making the buns on the list of 480 items of living heritage.
Lin Heung Tea House in Hong Kong. Hong Kong cuisine is mainly influenced by Cantonese cuisine, European cuisines (especially British cuisine) and non-Cantonese Chinese cuisines (especially Hakka, Teochew, Hokkien and Shanghainese), as well as Japanese, Korean and Southeast Asian cuisines, due to Hong Kong's past as a British colony and a long history of being an international port of commerce.