07 Must-Eat Foods When Traveling to Hong Kong

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5 min readOct 26, 2019

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Hong Kong is one of the best places for food. There are many restaurants including upscale restaurants, casual eateries, and humble street stalls, which give everyone a dining experience worth treasuring. So, if you visit this place someday, let’s try eating 10 following dishes and snacks, unfortunately, if you miss eating them.

Brisket curry/noodles

This is a dish with beef brisket, tenderly stewed in a variety of Chinese herbs and spices until utterly tender perfection.

Beef brisket can be served with a variety of different noodles, in soup, or with a plate of dry noodles. There’s also Hong Kong brisket curry, where the brisket is shredded into the flavorful curry and often paired with nuggets of the tendon. Whatever your choice, when you travel to Hong Kong, brisket is a must eat, especially in Kau Kee Restaurant (九記牛腩) at 21 Gough St, Central, Hong Kong.

Kau Kee is one of the most famous restaurants in Hong Kong that serves brisket. They are well known for two main dishes, brisket in clear soup with your choice of noodles, or brisket and tendon curry, a bowl of noodles costs around 40 HKD.

Dim sum

Dim sum can range from braised chicken feet to porky Siu Mai, to shrimp filled har ago, all guzzled down with hot tea.

Drinking tea and eating little bite sizes dishes which are known as dim sum, is the ancient Chinese tradition of drinking tea. That’s why this dish is often served at teahouses and always goes with hot tea.

Dim sum is one of the most famous foods to eat in Hong Kong and this is fun and delicious food experiences you can have.

There are some famous restaurants where you can eat this dish such as Lin Heung Teahouse (蓮香樓), Sam Hui Yat (叁去壹點心粉麵飯),…It depends on what you order, but typically about 50–100 HKD per person.

Char siu

Char siu, which can be referred to as a Cantonese style of barbecue pork, is one of the standard meats at any Hong Kong roast meat shop.

The pork is marinated in a mixture of soy sauce, hoisin sauce, honey or sugar for sweetness, and a seasoning blend that includes five spice (here’s an awesome looking char siu recipe).

You can try this food at Kwan Yu Roasted Meat (君御燒味) in G/F, 102 Electric Road, Tin Hau and the price is about 40 HKD per plate.

Pork chop rice / noodles

Pork chop rice/noodles is a pork chop seasoned lightly, possibly brushed in cornstarch, and served with either rice or instant noodles.

This is a classic Hong Kong street food. Although it may just seem like a simple pork chop, the saltiness and ratio of meat to fat, plus being fried in lots of oil, makes it somehow so incredibly delicious.

You will find this dish at many different types of restaurants in Hong Kong, but I think the best places to eat them are at local Hong Kong — Dai Pai Dong (located at Sham Shui Po) outdoor food stalls and the price is about 40–80 HKD per person.

Roast goose

Hong Kong roasted goose is marinated in a blend of secret spices, of which some recipes include over 20 different spices and aromatics, then roasted using charcoal until golden crispy perfection, roast goose is must eat in Hong Kong.

When you take a bite, literally the skin juices in your mouth, while being incredibly crispy at the same time and the meat is lusciously succulent.

You can eat this dish at many restaurants but two of the best places is Yung Kee (鏞記) and Yat Lok (一樂燒鵝). You will pay about 50–100 HKD per person or more for a full goose and it is cheaper at Yat Lok.

Roast chicken

Roasted chicken, which has similar properties to roasted goose, but of course, it’s chicken, and usually has a lesser spice marinade to it.

The Cantonese style roast chicken can be so crispy and so oily that it actually tastes like it’s deep-fried chicken, rather than roasted. The skin is crispy and slightly chewy, while the chicken meat remains moist and juicy. Sometimes you dip roast chicken into fragrant salt for extra delicious flavoring.

One of the best places to eat this dish is Wing Kee Restaurant (榮記(東成)飯店) at Bowrington Road Food Centre. It is about 100–200 HKD per person for a great meal.

Clay pot rice

Clay pot rice is a dish that rice is cooked (or more like scorched) within a clay pot and can be combined with a number of extra ingredients like chicken, pork, Chinese sausage or mushrooms. One of the best reasons clay pot rice is so good is because of the sauce that you splash all over it before you eat it, and also because of the fragrant crunchy rice crust that you get on the edges of the clay pot.

You can eat at Four Seasons Clay Pot Rice (四季煲仔飯) at right around the corner from Temple Street, and the restaurant looks something halfway between a food court and a garage. It’s a budget restaurant and they serve excellent clay pot rice. It goes for 40–50 HKD but it depends on what you order and the size.

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