Side Order / Snacks:
Egg Tart
Po Luo Yao (Bun with butter)
French toast
Pork Steak Bun
Some café also offer dishes like Multi-fried Noodles, Wanton Noodles, Barbecue Pork Noodle / Rice, Roast Duck, Roast Goose, and Soy Sauce Chicken, etc.
Dessert of the Day
“双皮奶” (Shuang Pi Nai, lit, Double Skin Milk)
It is kind of custard, but with two layers of skins. And the taste is mild with a milk aroma.
Recommended Desserts:
Double Skin Custard
Ginger Custard
Steam Egg custards
3 Steps to Make Your Own “Double Skin Custard”
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Dish of the Day
叉烧 (Cha Shao) is sort of barbecued pork and is another must-eat dish in Hong Kong. If you wanna test how would you like Cha Shao, you can try “叉烧包” (Cha Shao Bao) first, which has “Cha Shao” inside the Bao and is served in every Dim Sum restaurant. Also it is said that one will know how the Dim Sum restaurant is simply by having their Cha Shao Bao.
As for barbeque, the sauce is vital to make the Cha Shao a pleasure or a disaster. And the sauce for Cha shao including: thin soy sauce, garlic chopped, malt sugar, five-spice powder, wine, ermented soy beancurd and etc. Most of them are typical Chinese sauce ingredients and make a sweet glaze covering the soft meat.
If you get a chance to watch how the chief cook it, you will notice they hang up the pork inside the roaster and brush the sauce on it agian and again, by doing this, the oil will come out and drop on the fore during process and the final products will become less oily and more savory.
Related Cha Sha Food:
叉烧包 (Cha Shao Bao), the most common and also famous Dim Sum made of Cha Shao.
叉烧饭 (Cha Shao and Rice) is simple but enough to satisfy your stomach. Place the well cooked Cha Shao on steamed rice, at last scoop a spoonful Cha Shao sauce on it.
叉烧面(Dry Cha Shao Noodle), similar with cha Shao Rice, the main difference is Cha Shao is placed on noodle instead of rice. The noodle is usually thinner than the normal one, and severed together with green vegies.
Recommendation Restaurant:
镛记 (Yong Ji) is one of the old brands in Hong Kong and famous for series of Cha Shao products.
太興燒味連鎖店 (Tai Hing Roast Shop Group)
Location: Harmony Garden, Chai Wan
叉烧大王(Cha Shao King)
Location: Block D-39, Garden River, No.20 Tai Chung Kiu Rd, Sha Tin
Their Cha Shao is the best of its kind
Snack of the Day
Curry Fish Ball is one of the most popular street snacks in Hong Kong. You will know how much locals love this snack by walking along the roadside and counting how many stalls are selling it.
Actually, it’s just 4 or 5 fish balls on a stick which you then dip it into the provided hot curry sauce. Well, a tasty Curry Fish ball does not as simple as it looks like.
You not simply put the fish ball into the curry sauce and then boil them. A chewy fish ball is important, and the cooking hour is as important. If cook too long, the fish ball will become hard and lose chewy feeling; if not long enough, it will taste plain because the curry yet to penetrate it.
And the curry also makes a big difference. It’s not very spicy and tastes more like curry powder. But it is said that the curry sauce is made from herb and a lot of other ingredients, thus it tastes rich and fresh.
A stick of 4 or 5 balls is only at around HK$10, and it’s really yummy!
If you feel not very comfortable to eat on the street, here’s some recommended places that also serves nice Curry Fish Balls:
“津味茶餐厅”
Curry Fish Ball & Spicy Fish Ball
Location: Garden Street, Mong Kok.
Seven-eleven:
Actually a number of Seven-eleven’s Curry Fish Ball taste similar as some famous roadside stalls.
