SPD3159 FOOD: Cantonese Pot Rice(煲仔飯)

In the clod winter, people will eat something hot to keep warm, such as Hot Pot, Snake Soup, and Mutton and Ceramic Pot.

In addition, there is a local food to make you feel warm, that is Cantonese Pot Rice.

Pot Rice is very popular in Hong Kong, also people will go to have the Pot Rice in Winter rather than in Summer.
The reason is the Pot Rice will contain with a Hot Pot when serving.

Also, the Pot Rice is served with different kinds of meat, such as spareribs, beef, pork, Chinese sausage, and so on.

In fact, there are many restaurant serving the Pot Rice and use gas to cook it.

And today, I would like to introduce a famous shop which is produce tasty Pot Rice with reasonable price in Yau Ma Tei.

It is different from the other shops because it used the charcoal fire to cook the Pot Rice.

The shop is  Four Season Pot Rice.
And, there are not too many menu items.
They provide Pot Rice, Oyster Cake, Soup, and Vegetable.
The price is from 18-50 per item.
Pot Rice are $18-22 each. Prices of Oyster Cake are $20(small), and 40(big).
The address of this shop is 46-58, Arthur Street, Yau Ma Tei Kowloon.
Normally, it will open from the afternoon to mid-night.

 Menu on the wall

 Oyster Cake (small size)

 Spareribs Pot Rice



 Beef Pot Rice

P.S. In Winter, there will be a long queue around 8:00p.m.
If you don't want to wait very long time, please visit there around 7:00p.m.



Leung Karine

SPD3159 SPD 3159 Egg Tart (港式蛋撻)

In Hong Kong you can find egg tart in many places, like bakery, restaurant, Chinese tea house. Egg tart really is a common food of Hong Kong people. People usually treat it as a breakfast or snack in tea time.

Originally, all egg tart pastry is made of shortcrust pastry.The texture of shortbread pastry(餅皮麵團) is very savory, just like a cookie. Later on, some bakeries and restaurants change to use puff pastry(酥皮麵團). Which is crisper and look elegant. But puff pastry egg tart still can not dominate the market. Because shortcrust pastry egg tart still has a lot of loyalty fans .Like me =]

shortcrust pastry egg tart (餅皮蛋撻)

  puff pastry egg tart(酥皮蛋撻)

One of my favorite egg tart is come from Tai Cheong Bakery(泰昌餅家).This is a very popular bakery,because the former Governor of Hong Kong Christopher Francis Patten like the egg tart from this bakery very much.

The egg tart in this shop is really tasty.Every time I eat it is very hot. The texture of the pastry is crispy. The smell of the egg is very sweet. And the portion of the egg and pastry is perfect.

 

There are many branches of this bakery. You can easy to find it. But in my experience, egg tart in head-quarter of Central is the tastiest one. This is the address of the Central head-quarter.

G/F, 35 Lyndhurst Terrace, Central

By Kiki

spd 3159 food-spd3159food- Roasted chestnut* (烤栗子)

When we smell the roasted along the street with a dry wind. We will know,Yes!  autumn is coming."

Roasted chestnut which is commonly available during Autumn and Winter. Since Autumn is the best season for harvesting chestnut.

The  chestnut cart stall is the traditional style in making roasted chestnut. It is a really good snack in winter because those chestnuts are very warm and u can use it to warm your body.

There tends to have mre electronic roasted chestnut machine, however, you can't taste the traditional/ original taste of it.

Some chestnut carts may features with cooked peanuts, sweet tomato and so on. We strongly recommend to have a try of the sweet potato

there is a one cart located in the intersection between Nathan road and Lai Chi Kok Road, outside KEI WING Primary school.

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It's actumn and winter,  please do not hesitate find them and get a try!

P.s CHESTNUT IS RICH IN CARBOHYDRATE, IF YOU HAD A DIABETES PLEASE CONSUME LESS.

By Tracy Wong