Hong Kong had famed for a food paradise, we have a variety of choices such as Thai ,Viet,French,Italian etc. Today , we would like to introduce a HK style food stall---cooked food stall(冬菇亭/)
Cooked food stall is an indispensable part of HK memory since 50,60's. It is a major element of local dining culture. Those food stalls were housed under a pagoda-like structure with no air-conditioning given and they mostly housed near the pubic housing estate(1). That is one characteristic of HK local casual dining culture.
secondly, they usually provide variety kinds of food at a relatively low price. Such as hong kong style food like cart noodle, chiu chow cuisine, congee from day to night.
1. Cart noodles: In the past, after the world war 2 , people are poor, cart noodels provide a full meal at lower price. Cart noodles is a kind of instant noodle which are on the mobile trolley car under a burning fire . Noodles is a staple in cart noodel, those noodels Chinese noodles are generally made from either wheat flour, rice flour, or mung bean starch, they are in different size and texture. Also, there are different kind of dishes with noodels such as turlips, octopus, chicken wings, sausages,fish ball and beefs etc.
Due to the hygine issues,those traditional mobile cart noodles become lesser and lesser. A popular
2.chiu chow cuisine is all about stewed food ( to boil or stew with soy sauce as seasoning ). Such as stewed octopus, bean-curd n goose wings etc.
3.Congee prvide a chinese style congee with dough stick cheung fan. it is a popular breatfast to local people.
Dough stick cheung fan
The other charateristic of these cooked food stalls was that they have no nice decoration or robort-like service instead, they provide a friend-like service to creat a csual atmosphere to show our chinese culture. Cooked food stalls like those chinese restaurant --noisy
Finally, due to the rejuvenation of these cooked food stall, they can't well-reserved some traditional elememts but add some moden elements. If you want to try this kind of local dining culture, come to travel and try it immediately !Some are still available in choi wan,yuen long or you may try the one which had rejuvenated in 2008 in wong tai sin after visiting the Wong Tai Sin Temple(2).
Cooked food stall after rejuvenating.
Reference:
(1)public housing estate is a housing welfare policy of HK government, to provide a house to local residentrent a house built by government at low price. Tp ensure most people have a shelter to live/survive.
(2)Wong Tai Sin Temple is located on the southernside of the Lion rock. it is one of the taoist temple, many tourists may come there for fortune teller via practising the fortune stick.
Source:
Rejuvenation of cooked food stall
http://cookedfoodstall.com/home.html
by tracy Wong
Cooked food stall is an indispensable part of HK memory since 50,60's. It is a major element of local dining culture. Those food stalls were housed under a pagoda-like structure with no air-conditioning given and they mostly housed near the pubic housing estate(1). That is one characteristic of HK local casual dining culture.
secondly, they usually provide variety kinds of food at a relatively low price. Such as hong kong style food like cart noodle, chiu chow cuisine, congee from day to night.
1. Cart noodles: In the past, after the world war 2 , people are poor, cart noodels provide a full meal at lower price. Cart noodles is a kind of instant noodle which are on the mobile trolley car under a burning fire . Noodles is a staple in cart noodel, those noodels Chinese noodles are generally made from either wheat flour, rice flour, or mung bean starch, they are in different size and texture. Also, there are different kind of dishes with noodels such as turlips, octopus, chicken wings, sausages,fish ball and beefs etc.
Due to the hygine issues,those traditional mobile cart noodles become lesser and lesser. A popular
2.chiu chow cuisine is all about stewed food ( to boil or stew with soy sauce as seasoning ). Such as stewed octopus, bean-curd n goose wings etc.
3.Congee prvide a chinese style congee with dough stick cheung fan. it is a popular breatfast to local people.
Dough stick cheung fanThe other charateristic of these cooked food stalls was that they have no nice decoration or robort-like service instead, they provide a friend-like service to creat a csual atmosphere to show our chinese culture. Cooked food stalls like those chinese restaurant --noisy
Finally, due to the rejuvenation of these cooked food stall, they can't well-reserved some traditional elememts but add some moden elements. If you want to try this kind of local dining culture, come to travel and try it immediately !Some are still available in choi wan,yuen long or you may try the one which had rejuvenated in 2008 in wong tai sin after visiting the Wong Tai Sin Temple(2).
Cooked food stall after rejuvenating.Reference:
(1)public housing estate is a housing welfare policy of HK government, to provide a house to local residentrent a house built by government at low price. Tp ensure most people have a shelter to live/survive.
(2)Wong Tai Sin Temple is located on the southernside of the Lion rock. it is one of the taoist temple, many tourists may come there for fortune teller via practising the fortune stick.
Source:
Rejuvenation of cooked food stall
http://cookedfoodstall.com/home.html
by tracy Wong
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