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.

http://hk.wrs.yahoo.com/_ylt=A3xsaFSNZONMn_gAYCXwzAt.;_ylu=X3oDMTE0NWhzZmFkBHNlYwNzcgRwb3MDMwRjb2xvA2hrMgR2dGlkA2hrMDE0MV8yNA--/SIG=11epg4213/EXP=1290057229/**http://www.google.com/maps


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



SPD3159 SPD 3159 -- Yakitori(串燒)

Yakitori(串燒)

When you by pass the (阜財街)Fau Tsui Sheet of Yuen Long. A strong tasty smell will catch your attention.Which is the taste of the yakitori.

Fau Tsui Sheet is the paradise of yakitori. Over six yakitori shop aggregated in this sheet.串皇,妙舒,薪意etc.Those of the Yakitori shop are well known and providing yummy yakitori.

 

 

 

 串皇 is my favorite yakitori shop in Hong Kong .There are many choose of yakitori. Pork, beef, chicken, corn, squid etc.

The most delicious one in串皇 is beef. Because the beef is uncooked before burning ,we need to wait for around eight minutes to wait for the food.After the burning process, you can match it with the sauce provided by the shop. Although the beef process a buring, all juice still locked in the beef. And the beef is totally matched with the sauce provide by the shop. After you finished the beef ,you will think it is totally worthwhile to wait for the yakitori   

This the the address of 串皇

元朗阜財街2號宏豐大廈地下11D舖

by Kiki

SPD3159 FOOD-Street side stalls in Hong Kong (香港街頭小食)

There are many street side stalls in Hong Kong, especially in Mong Kok. Street side stalls is a stall providing variety cooked snack including curry fishball, Siu-Mai(燒賣), sausage, squid ,smelly beancurd(臭豆腐)  etc.

Usually the price of these snack are cheap.Each of them cost around $6-$8.Most of the Hong Kong people cannot refuse the glamour of street snacks. Having street snacks become a living habit in their life.

                                                

Generally, the raw material of fishball ,siu-Mai is nearly the same .The main different of each stall is the sauce. Every street side stalls will have their own signature sauce; it makes customers addicted with their snack.

 

If you interest to try those of the feature street snack, I strongly recommend  南華美食  in Soy Street ,Mong Kok to you .The curry sauce of the fishball and squid are wonderful.Once you try the fishball in this stall,you cannot forget how taste of their signature sauce.

By Kiki Ng

SPD 3159 FOOD: Hong Kong local hamburger shop in Hung Hom(紅磡時新快餐店)

When you want to have a hamburger, which shop will be the first choice in your mind?

Mc Donalds? Mos Burger? Burger King? Triple O's? Freshness Burger?............

In fact, we are not going to introduce these shops for you.

And I would like to introduce the Shi Sun Fastfood Shop in Hung Hom for you guys.

Here we go, hope you like it.

When you enter in this fast food shop, you will imagine that you still live in the 80s.

The shop still retain the cincise decoration in previous time.

There are limited space for the shop, but how come it can be very famous in Hong Kong?
Even many foreigners come to have a burger?

The main point is the fresh-made meals for its customers.


After you order the burger, they will start to ready the tasty burger for you.
In addition, they offer many different kinds of burger and snacks in their menu,
the price would be from 10 - 16 for a burger.

my special recommendation are Double Cheese Burger, Fish Filet Burger, Deep-fried Drumsticks, and Fries.

The wounderful meal with my friends in Shi Sun.

 

This is the photo of double cheese burger, yummy!

The crispy deep-fired drumstick!

P.S. Not recommend to visit this shop in weekends and public holidays, it would possible a long queue of people in front of the shop.

Leung Karine

SPD 3159 FOOD IN HONG KONG China Cafe(冰室)

What is China Cafe(冰室)?:

    

 China Cafe(冰室) , the one type of restaurant only provide Cold drink, ice-cream and snack. It is not same with Cantonese-style restaurant (茶餐廳) because China Cafe(冰室)have not provided the set of lunch or dinner with rice. Compare with Cantonese-style restaurant (茶餐廳) , China Cafe(冰室) have not enough type of foods to provide. The major products are snack such as French toast, noodles and sandwich.

   

  

    In fact, China Cafe(冰室) will provide some set of lunch right now to deal with the Cantonese-style restaurant (茶餐廳)competition.

Today, I want to introduce one typical style of China Cafe(冰室) in Tai Kok Tsui.

It is 七記冰室

 

   

 This is one nice China Cafe(冰室) in Tai Kok Tsui. It retains a typical outlook and decoration for all consumers. Also, it provide a good taste food and acceptable price for all Hong Kongers.

The typical food in China Cafe(冰室):

 Nice ice with red bean.

 

   

Excellent crisp toast, omelet and macaroni

These decoration are the typical type for China Cafe(冰室)

 Stay in here just like live in 1950-70’S time. You can feel that the atmosphere of the China Cafe(冰室) is very different with general restaurant.

You can taste a delicious food and feel the old-Hong Kong atmosphere in here. In fact, it is not expensive of this China Cafe(冰室) foods so that it is worth for us to try once.

Address:Tai Kok Tsui Pine Street, 23

 http://maps.google.com.hk/maps?q=%E5%A4%A7%E8%A7%92%E5%92%80%E6%9D%89%E6%A8%B9%E8%A1%9723%E8%99%9F%E5%9C%B0%E4%B8%8B&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:zh-TW:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&ie=UTF-8&hq=&hnear=%E6%9D%89%E6%A8%B9%E8%A1%9723%E8%99%9F&gl=hk&ei=jU7tTLTZOIffcafD6cgP&sa=X&oi=geocode_result&ct=image&resnum=1&ved=0CBcQ8gEwAA


BY Lucas Tsang

SPD 3159 FOOD - SPD3159FOOD *Dim Sum (點心)

Dim Sum (點心)


Have you ever heard what dim sum is?  I’m sure most of the Hong Kong people have heard and tried it before. Dim sum, also known as yumcha is one of the most popular and famous cuisines in Hong Kong, therefore, which is including shrimp dumplings (蝦餃), beef balls (牛肉球), egg custard buns (奶皇包), barbecued buns with pork (叉燒包) etc.

Shrimp dumplings

Barbecued buns with pork

Beef balls

In the early, there were some of the employees pushing the trolley round and round in the restaurant, if there have your favor food you may make an order, then they will deliver the food for you. If you don’t want to waste time, you may go out and then look for what you want to eat. But nowadays, they had been changed the format by make an order on the list. You only need to choose the foods on the order sheet, and then waiting for your foods. It has more efficient.

If you want to try those delicious foods, I recommend that you may go to the Chinese restaurant, for instance, Super Star seafood restaurant (鴻星海鮮酒家), Maxim’s Chinese Restaurant (美心大酒樓) and Tao Heung Restaurant (稻香酒家).

By Gabriel Tsui

SPD3159FOOD SPD 3159 FOOD--Dried Fruit 涼果

Dried fruit, it is similar with a dried raspberries/plum, Raisins etc..The chinese Dried fruit either in sour and sweetened taste..just like Preserved prune( 話梅) and dried lemon. The one characteristic of chinese dried fruits is that some dried furit can ease some syndroms like dizzy..sore throat ... 

Preserved prune can ease you from dizzy and prevent vomit whereas Dried lemon can ease you from sore throat .

If you really want to try Our chinese traditional dried fruit.There are two Distribution channels to sell these Dried Fruits.

1. The traditional snack shop

富明街么鳳老店 is one of the most popular dried fruit/snack shops which is located in fu ming street, causeway bay. Product sold in 么鳳are in good and top quality..........................................

you can not only buy those traditiona dried fruit but traditional snacks e.g candies.chocolate coins...etc

2.Dried fruit trolley cart

It was so popular in HK since 60's-70's. Some dried fruits n  are sold in this kind of trolley cart/trolley stands...however they become rare. I remembered it still available at Hau Fook Street, Tsim Sha Tsui .

Reminder: do not TAKE excessive consumption in chinese dried fruit like preserved prune becasue they may demage your teeth n stomach. Also, they may contain many sugar.

Source:

popular fruits

http://www.ufood.com.hk/article/showOnlyArt/91961/0/410/1/涼果.html

Histroy of dried fruit n health consideration
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dried_fruit

By Tracy Wong

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SPD 3159 FOOD--Hong Kong local food - Bovine Offal(牛雜) Cont. Version!

Hey, all bloggers! Do you remember our promoise last week? Actually, we would like to introduces a shop for you to enjoy Bovine Offal.
Also, our members took some photos of Bovine Offal.
Hope all of you will like our blog!
Lets see our photos.

This shop is located in North Point.
It is nearby the MTR station, so we can get there very easy.

This is the outlook of the shop. It calls block 13 Bovine Offal, 十三座牛雜 in Chinese.
Not only selling Bovine Offal, they also provide some other local food and softdrinks for customers.

A pot of Bovine Offal.

It is very yummy, do you want to try some?

($30/serve - small, $45/serve - large)

In the following blog, we would like to introduce a Hong Kong famous hamburger shop in Hung Hom for you.

So... do miss it!

More Details About 十三座牛雜

You can visit openrice and search for it.

The link:

http://www.openrice.com/restaurant/sr2.htm?shopid=15583

by Leung Karine

Hong Kong local food - Bovine Offal(牛雜) Cont. Version!

Hey! All bloggers...
Do you remember we promised that we will introduce the shop for you?
Actually, we did it!
Let's see some photos we took last weekend!

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