momopi
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Dining out in HK (part 1)
Geographically, Hong Kong has many hills and mountains, so the bulk of its population is crammed into just 25% of the territory. People live in shoebox sized flats and many lack adequate kitchen facilities, thus dining out is the norm.
One popular breakfast item is Nissin?s ?????? instant noodle, served at breakfast tea caf?s (???). The restaurants sometimes replace the soup with their own superior soup stock, and add fried egg (sunny side up), veggies, grilled SPAM, or other ingredients to the noodle. I did not order this so here?s a pic from the internet:
At the breakfast caf? where I had breakfast, the instant noodle with slice of grilled spam or fried egg sells for $23 HKD, or roughly $3 USD:
I prefer porridge with Chinese fried bread stick (youtiao) for breakfast:
Another popular Cantonese dish is clay pot rice. In Los Angeles I do not know a good restaurant that serves this dish, it?s usually too dry and the sausages are sliced into smaller pieces, versus in Hong Kong the rice is better and they give you whole sausages:
The last pic above is fried oysters. Here are a few pics from the area:
Being in HK I had to at least try some Dim Sum. Unfortunately I may have went to the wrong place, the Dim Sum was ?meh?:
The locals like sesame paste dessert (like what Phoenix serves in LA):
Geographically, Hong Kong has many hills and mountains, so the bulk of its population is crammed into just 25% of the territory. People live in shoebox sized flats and many lack adequate kitchen facilities, thus dining out is the norm.
One popular breakfast item is Nissin?s ?????? instant noodle, served at breakfast tea caf?s (???). The restaurants sometimes replace the soup with their own superior soup stock, and add fried egg (sunny side up), veggies, grilled SPAM, or other ingredients to the noodle. I did not order this so here?s a pic from the internet:
At the breakfast caf? where I had breakfast, the instant noodle with slice of grilled spam or fried egg sells for $23 HKD, or roughly $3 USD:
I prefer porridge with Chinese fried bread stick (youtiao) for breakfast:
Another popular Cantonese dish is clay pot rice. In Los Angeles I do not know a good restaurant that serves this dish, it?s usually too dry and the sausages are sliced into smaller pieces, versus in Hong Kong the rice is better and they give you whole sausages:
The last pic above is fried oysters. Here are a few pics from the area:
Being in HK I had to at least try some Dim Sum. Unfortunately I may have went to the wrong place, the Dim Sum was ?meh?:
The locals like sesame paste dessert (like what Phoenix serves in LA):
