Hong Kong » Dining in Hong Kong

Hong Kong has a variety of choosy gourmets. Luxury restaurants, friendly teahouses, lively dai pai dong (street-side stands), and dessert houses all swarm into Hong Kong.

Though restaurants specialising in Pekingese, Shanghainese, Sichuan or Indian, Vietnamese, Thai, Korean, Japanese, or Italian food are easily accessible in Hong Kong, as the saying goes, "Do in Rome as the Romans do", and give Hong Kong dishes priority.

For dinner, traditional Hong Kong cuisine would be an ideal choice. Deeply affected by Cantonese food, which is quite unique among the eight Chinese cuisines, Hong Kong cuisine emphasises freshness to preserve the original taste of the food. Tai Woo Restaurant is one of the best of the 2004 "Best of the Best Culinary Awards". There are four Tai Woo Restaurants in Hong Kong Island and Kowloon.

Soup is an important item in Hong Kong cuisine as well as a cultural symbol. In Hong Kong good wives greet their tired husbands by saying, "I cooked soup for you". Soups are good for both health and beauty. With specific Chinese herbal medicines like ginger, soups can treat certain illnesses. Ah Yee Leng Tong Restaurant is a highly recommended soup specialist. 

Seafood 

For those who love seafood, the Jumbo Kingdom is a required stop. Jumbo is a Hong Kong icon and has developed into a theme park on the sea. The address is Shum Wan Pier Drive, Wong Chuk Hang, Aberdeen, Hong Kong. 

Sweet Soups 

Sweet soups, offered in restaurants, teahouses and in special dessert houses, can delight your palate as well. These soups include ginger milk pudding, steamed milk in two layers, steamed egg, tortoise jelly, dumpling made of sago, and tofu pudding with fresh fruit. 

Night Snacks 

For night snacks, you can choose either salty ones like noodles in soup or with dumplings (wun tun meen) or sweet ones like cakes, bor law yau (a hot bun stuffed with melted butter), and daan tar (a baked egg custard). Boiled or fried rice noodles are also tasty.