Eating and Drinking, Hong Kong

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We tried as many different dishes as we could while there. There is no shortage of restaurants and the best ones to visit are the ones where the locals hang out. Eat what they eat. Do what they do. And enjoy!

This is a fun and educational hour long class on Thursday afternoons at the teahouse in Hong Kong Park. Mr. Ip Wing-chi is very personable and he will teach you all about the different kinds of tea and how to prepare each one in the traditional fashion. He also prepares some tea for everyone to taste at the end!

The class is free, but I also recommed staying afterwards for some dim sum and tea at the teahouse - a great chance to hone the skills you just learned!

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Eating out in restos like this is one good way to feel the place... its ambience, its people, its noise and of course its food... we ordered what we see others order and just didnt refer to the menu at all hoping we wouldnt end eating jelly fish or cow's eyes or anything "exotic". as they say, when in rome....

we chose this place coz its crowded so we figured the food must be great. and it was... i love chinese food.

1. A fresh juice from a street vendor. With everything from cantalope, to celery, to starfruit, and waterchestnut, for only 10HKD its a great treat.

2. Fish balls. Available from street vendors in just about any district, these deep-fried balls are a spicy and filling snack, only setting you back about 5HKD skewer.

3. Swiss rolls. Ok, so they aren't exactly authentic 'Hong Kong', but they are everywhere. These rolled sponge-cake treats are filled with interesting creamy, paste fillings like red bean, green tea, and peanut.

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Before this reccent trip, my favourite street food was Egg Balls HK$10 (S$1.90). I would always buy one to eat while I walked from Causeway Bay to the Hong Kong Stadium. Also a great snack to have while you're shopping :)

But on this trip I discovered something new - Spicy Fishballs (Yu Dan, Lat) HK$6-7 (about S$1.30). For that price, you get one stick with about 6 fishballs. The best one I had was at the street stall near Rong Yuan (other post in Restaurants for directions) - the one here is so spicy that my mouth takes a good half hour to recover, but it's so good that I can't help but eat more of it despite the discomfort! My mouth is watering just thinking about it now...

Another one of my favourites is the Deep Fried Squid Tentacles HK$10 (S$1.90). Also a great snack to have while you're shopping :)

On this trip, I finally decided to give Smelly Tofu (chow dow fu) a try. The one from this stall used to be really smelly - approaching it, I would wonder if the smell was coming from a drain - but for some reason this time it wasn't that bad... and as expected it wasn't smelly when I bit into it. It was pretty much just normal deep fried tofu, a bit of a let-down really... but maybe I will change my mind when I try a really good one.

i stayed in guang dong hotel and around the area there were alot of small chinese restaurants that have good food. you just have to be willing to risk a bit. incase the stomach feels it took too much my tip is YAKULT it!

If you have to have a cup of tea anywhere in the world, let it be here in the Peninsula Hotel....the service is first class the tea is out of this world good....and the selection of pastries and finger sandwichs's are outstanding.....put it doesn't come cheap.....it runs about 200 HKD per person almost $30 US, but it's well worth it...we came without eating lunch and this was more than enough !!!!! HIGHLY RECOMMEND IT !!!!!!!

One of the main attractions of Hong Kong is the wide variety of food that it offers. From roadside stalls, to smoke-filled Cha Can Ting (Tea Restaurants), to fast food, to full fledge restaurants.

Hongkongs eat 6 meals a day: breakfast, morning tea, lunch, afternoon tea, dinner and supper.

For breakfast and morning tea, try the traditional dim sum that consists of prawn dumplings, meat dumplings, glutinous rice with chicken etc. You will be spoilt for choice. The recommended one is at Shamrock Seafood Restaurant. Cheap, good and authentic.

For lunch and dinner, you can try the Japanese Ramen (different from that found in Singapore), Roasted Meat Delight (Roast Chicken, Pork, Pigeon, Duck, Goose). Or you can try any of the themed restaurants (like Teochew food - braised duck and pig neck, fish meat noodles etc) or Hakka food (braised vegetables and meat)

For afternoon, head down to the Tea Restaurants for a Pineapple Bun (Bo Luo Bao) or an egg tart, with a traditional Coffee or milk tea. If you cannot decide whether tea or coffee, try the Yuan Yang - a mixture of Coffee and Tea.

For supper, try the steamboat, a unqiue asian dish of dipping raw food into a piping hot pot of soup to cook, then dip the food into a sauce mix before putting the food into your mouth. Hong Kong has a wider variety of food that can be cooked in the steamboat, as compared to Singapore. For example: Fish, Fish egg, Xiao Long Bao (Meat Dumpling), Shui Jing Bao with pork in it (Glutinous Rice Ball), Fried Fish Skin and others.

Hong Kongers love desserts too...hence always end your meal with either a sweet steamed egg custard or a mango dessert !