SPD3159FOOD - Put chai ko 砵仔糕

Put chai ko is a snack which originates from Hong Kong, and also know as red bean pudding, which is palm size and is sweet in taste. It is soft, but can hold its molded shape outside of a bowl or small bowl. It is made from different forms of steamed sugar (white or brown) and select ingredients (Red bean).

If you want to try it, I suggest that you can explore between D'aguilar Street and Wellington Street in Central. There has a cart store operation by elder couple.

Actually,  you can make it by yourself, it is very easy. There has some information to teach you how to make it.

Brown sugar and red bean pudding


Ingredients:
100g rice flour
30g wheat starch
20g water chestnut starch
25g glutinous(sticky) rice flour
60g raw brown sugar
50g dark brown sugar
2 cups water
red beans

Directions:
* Soak red beans in boiling water, covered, for an hour. Then simmer for 20 minutes, put into thermos vacuum cooker overnight.
* In a large bowl, combine rice flour, wheat starch, water chestnut starch and sticky rice flour.
* Boil raw brown sugar and dark brown sugar with water till completely dissolved. Stir into flour mixture little at a time (divide a few times to stir in).
* Place small bowls onto steaming rack and let heat up with water. Bring water to a boil, pour mixture into small bowls, quickly add red beans. Cover and steam for about 20 minutes.
* Let cool for a bit. Use bamboo skewers to remove the pudding from bowl.

Note:
- Make sure steaming over high heat with a nice amount of water to get better consistency pudding.

by Gabriel Tsui
Source from : http://bonnietong.blogspot.com/2010/04/blog-post_26.html

pigeon 乳鴿 spd 3159 food spd 3159 food in Hong Kong

龍華酒店（Lung Wah Hotel）

Today I want to introduce one famous food and hotel in Sha tin which is Lung Wah hotel pigeon.

    

    Sha tin Lung Wah pigeon dishes were one of the Hong Kong gourmet brands that even <New York Times> has already introduced about these 30 years ago.

 The hotel will only use 26 days old baby pigeons and especially hired one chef to cook the pigeon dishes to maintain the standard.

The hotel had make a one record, thousand of pigeons can be sold in just one day because of the hotel maintain a good standard.

 

 The pigeon are juicy and skin crispy.

There is some Pigeon meat floss for foreigners. For example, It is a dish wrapped by fresh lettuce with stir-fried fillings like finely chopped pigeon meat, mushrooms, bamboo shoots and carrots.

 

 Therefore, you can choose what your favor cooking method to eat the pigeon in Lung Wah.

In fact, the Lung Wah hotel is the one special place in Hong Kong because it has preserved  some decorations of the Hong Kong 50-60s Hotel style so you can enjoy the food and view here as well.

by Lucas Tsang 

External link:http://www.lungwahhotel.hk/profile.php?lang=eng

SPD3159 SPD 3159 FOOD : Yung Kee Restaurant(鏞記酒家) - King of Roast Goose

This time, We are going to introduce the most famous 'Roast Goose' in Hong Kong.

Yung Kee Restaurant(鏞記酒家), which establish more than half a century ago, was a modest cooked food stall in Kwong Yuen West Street.

Yung Kee Restaurant is located at 32-40 Wellington Street, Central, Hong Kong

In 1964, Mr. Kam Shui Fai ,who was the founder, was formally purchased 32 Wellington Street, coincidentally also number 32! Eventually four more adjacent buildings were acquired.

In 1978, the five commercial units were torn down and rebuilt to become the site of the present day "Yung Kee Building". The restaurant was furnished to modern standards and the management and operations were streamlined. However, the traditional good services have been maintained to serve customers. 

Yung Kee was renowned both at home and abroad for its gourmet specialty-Roast Goose.

But Yung Kee is well known for other dishes too: duck, pork and thousand-year-old eggs, all of which are amazing. If nothing else, try a takeout lunch box

 How to get there?

5 minutes walk from MTR Central Station (Exit D2)

Here is the operation hours
Business Hours:           11:00a.m. - 11:30p.m.(Daily)
Closing Days:               The 1st 3 days of Chinese New Year
Dim-Sum Dining:         2:00p.m. - 5:30p.m. (Mon. to Sat.)
                                      11:00a.m.-5:30p.m.  (Sunday & Public Holiday)

Please go and try the 'King of Roast Goose' when you are free, otherwise, you will regret!

Source: http://www.yungkee.com.hk/

Written by Matthew Wong

Hong Kong local food - Bovine Offal(牛雜)

In Western countries, most people thought internal organs of animals are dirty.

However, when they come to Hong Kong, they will discover that there are many stores are selling bovine offal.

Bovine offal usually includes bovine intestine(牛腸), bovine tripe(牛肚), bovine pancrea(牛膀), bovine lung(牛肺), and so on.

In the following days, we will post some photos of bovine offal.

Also, we would like to suggest some shops, which is famous for its bovine offal, for you.

So, don't miss it. Please keep our blog updated.

by Leung Karine

SPD3159FOOD SPD3159 FOOD Hong Kong Style Egg Waffle (香港雞蛋仔)

Hong Kong Style Egg Waffle (香港雞蛋仔)

Egg waffle seller

Here is the video of teaching you how to make egg waffle !

The egg waffle shaped like an egg, in Chinese it's called 雞蛋仔(literally means little eggs), one of the long standing popular street foods in Hong Kong.


Origin of Hong Kong Style Egg Waffle
The Hong Kong style Egg Waffle is a unique street hawker food in Hong Kong. Piece by piece they come in a golden coloured honeycomb shape and gives out a rich aroma of cake flavour. It is in fact hollow in shape … it gives one an extraordinary experience when biting on it as it has a distinct texture of having a crispy shell with inner softness.

In accordance to information available, the Hong Kong Style Egg Waffle is originated in the 1950s. In an effort of making use of some cracked eggs, an Asian grocery shop’s owner made an attempt of developing this egg batter. Sugar, flour and evaporated milk were added to an egg batter and was poured into a honey-comb metal plate to cook into waffle. Traditionally, the Hong Kong Egg Waffles are made over charcoal flames. However, most people nowadays use electric stove tops due to cost efficiency and safety reasons.

Nowadays, the Hong Kong Style Egg Waffle has its original formula improved to also come in an array of different flavours and they include chocolate, strawberry; original flavour with shredded coconuts, black sesame, etc. However, the original flavour still remains as the majority out of all.

Hung Kee (Extremely Delicious) Egg Cakes,鴻記(極品)雞蛋仔
the 2nd Path, A34C Tai On Lau, Sai Wan Ho

Here is the loaction of the restaurant

If you want know more, you can visit the following website


Written by Matthew Wong

Source: http://en.christinesrecipes.com/2010/09/hong-kong-style-egg-waffle-original.html

SPD 3159 FOOD- SPD3159FOOD-Hong Kong SOFTEE (香港雪糕車軟雪糕)

How many  Hong Kong food do you still remember?

They are vital significance to the Hong Kong peoples.

Mister Softee 「雪糕車」

The trucks sell only four products:

Ø   Soft ice cream軟雪糕(vanillais the only flavor, though the cone is made of chocolate)

Ø Nutty Drumstick (果仁甜筒)

Ø   Large Cups (蓮花杯 "lotus cups")

Ø   Jumbo Orange (珍寶橙冰), a kind of sherbet).

 

Some background of Mister softee:

      Mister Softee is a United States Ice-cream franchise that is also popular in Hong Kong . Local owned by the Ng Enterprises Ltd. The first truck, which had been imported from England began to operate in 1970.

The red-white-blue outlook of the trucks, and the Blue Danube  played by them, are part of the  collective memoryof many Hong Kongers.

Today the company has 14 ice cream vans running on Hong Kong Island. Kowloon and the NewTerritories.

There  movie show that  Mister Softee selling situation , the song will attract many people to buy the ice-cream.

The most appear area:
Tsim Sha Tsui Bus Station near star Ferry

by Lucas Tsang

SPD3159 FOOD-Hong Kong FOOD STALL (港式大排檔)

If we talk about Hong Kong food, which type and what kind of food would come up with your mind? Egg tart,Fish ball, counterfied shark's fin, fermented bean curd or HK style ball waffle????

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

SPD3159FOOD- SPD 3159 FOOD--Traditional Food

A pineapple bun is a kind of sweet pastry popular in Hong Kong,
 It is known in Cantonese as Por Lor Bau, in which 'Por Lor ' means 'pineapple'. However, you will not find any pineapplpe in this bread.

Pineapple Bun with butter

Por Lor Yau (Hong Kong Butterred Pineapple Bun)
Many Hong Kong restaurants offer an item called a "buttered pineapple bun", which is a pineapple bun with a piece of butter inside. It is called Por Lor Yau. It is the variant of pineapple bun.
 The pineapple bun may come in miniature sizes (迷你菠蘿包), and/or it may be used as a bread-roll to sandwich for example luncheon meat (餐肉菠蘿包), or it may be pre-stuffed with red bean paste (紅豆菠蘿包), custard cream (奶黃菠蘿包), barbecued pork (叉燒菠蘿包), or a sweet filling of shredded coconut (椰絲菠蘿包) as in that in a cocktail bun.

It you want to try 'Por Lor Bau' or 'Por Lor Yau ', you can just visit '金華冰廳 '
which is located at G/F, 47 Bute Street, Prince Edward

Pineapple bun

Here is the location of  '金華冰廳'

Written by Matthew Wong (14:22 04/10/2010)
If you want to know more about details, please visit the following link.
Source:
http://www.malaysiabest.net/2005/12/10/por-lor-yau-hong-kong-butterred-pineapply-bun/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pineapple_bun