What to eat in Hong Kong
I am pretty convinced that many of the people who are going to read this article are big fans of the Chinese food, and if you plan on visiting Hong Kong soon, prepare to be pampered with China's most representative dishes and plates. Hong Kong is known as the capital of Chinese cuisine; the city serves dishes which are made with what might be considered as peculiar ingredients for the European eater. Tiger, dog or rat, these are the animals you could eat in Hong Kong, prepared after traditional recipes. For those with more traditional tastes we recommend you try the Dim Sum or the Peking duck. The origins of the Hong Kong population are related with the Cantonese speakers of China's population, and the gastronomy of this zone is highly influenced by the Cantonese cuisine. A list of Hong Kong most common dishes would include: dim sum, herbal tea, poached chicken, abalone and shark’s fin, roast duck and wife cake. The rich menus Hong Kong is famous about are mainly prepared and cooked in the Cantonese style of cuisine. The special flavour of this food is due to the high importance that Cantonese people give to the freshness of the food. Chefs use stir frying in shallow or oil in a wok in order to prepare the food. The short time that requires the food in order to be cooked is part of what gives it such a delicious flavour. This type of cuisine is also famous for the sauces that accompany the food made with garlic, vinegar, onion, ginger and sugar. Dishes cooked in this style are known for their tasty flavour and for being lighter than the rest of the Chinese food. After a consistent meal we recommend you hot pot, a savoured pot of Chinese tea. The drink is served in small bamboo steamers and careful decorated plates. For a different eating experience we recommend the Bo Innovation restaurant. After being featured in the Michelin guide for Hong Kong, the restaurant has received a lot of praises from the ones that visited it. What is special about this restaurant is the technique they use to prepare the food, which is called molecular gastronomy. The restaurant serves dished from a wide range of aliments, specific or not to the Chinese cuisine, like baked sausages and fried-egg sandwich, scrambled pigeon eggs with a slice of Spam, and for desert truffles on toast or rice ice-cream. If you are by no chance a fan of the Chinese cuisine, you will consider yourself lucky to be in Hong Kong because the restaurant market and offer is extremely developed, and you could try other styles of foreign cuisine like Italian, Korean, Japanese, Indian, French, Vietnamese or Singaporean. Chinese people have also their specific eating habits, they are famous for across the world. The food is eaten with chopsticks, the sizes are consider smaller than in United States for example, but the Chinese eat five times a day. The main course is almost always accompanied by rice or noodles, prepared in the specific way of the area. Chinese cuisine is exotic and flavoured, and once you taste it you can understand why everyone is so fond of it.
