Asian Nutrient Fest #4 (Jan+Feb 2013) : Hong Kong + Macau

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Hello 2014!!! Happy New Year's Day everyone!

Thanks to all who receive got participated inward the West Asia Food Fest concluding month. You may banking venture check the circular upwards of all the entries over at Shannon's blog.

I volition survive the host for the fourth Asian Food Fest. I truly receive got to give thank you lot Wendy for the opportunity. This time, it is a piffling fleck special, because the fourth Asian Food Fest volition goes on for TWO months instead of the usual 1 calendar month affair. And, I volition survive hosting the combination of Hong Kong (香港) and Macau (澳門).

Interesting eh? So, you lot must back upwards lah! Haha...

Hong Kong has many nicknames, but most famous is 东方之珠, literally "Pearl of the orient". It was named according to the shiny metropolis lights from both sides of Victoria Harbour as well as the high rising buildings. Ask anyone to a greater extent than or less you, I assure you, almost everyone knows Hong Kong is famous amongst it's paradise of shopping, eating as well as City of Life.

So, how does Hong Kong linked to Macau? They are almost neighbors because they are simply an hr ferry ride away from Hong Kong-Macau Ferry Terminal.

Macau is good known equally 1 of the world's biggest gambling centre. During the olden days, Macau was rented to Portugal past times the Chinese Empire equally a trading port dorsum then. And Macau resident, also known equally Macanese has its unique cultural combination of Chinese as well as Portuguese. Lots of tourists swear that Macau serves yummy Portuguese food.

Hong Kong Cuisine

Hong Kong cuisine is mainly influenced past times Cantonese cuisine since 1920's. In 1949's, Shanghainese as well as western cuisine influence kicked in, as well as this is also, due to Hong Kong's past times equally a British colony as well as long history of beingness an international metropolis of commerce. From the roadside stalls to the most upscale restaurants, you lot tin honor unlimited diverseness of nutrient inward every class. Probably due to the combination as well as complexity inward cultural influence, international gourmet expertise receive got given Hong Kong the reputable labels of "Gourmet Paradise".

Hong Kong homes as well as kitchens tend to survive pocket-size due to a high population density. Modern people are oft equally good busy to cook. Hence, take-out as well as dining out is real common. From walled hamlet (围村) dishes to Hong Kong-style teahouses 茶餐厅 and dai pai dong 大牌档, the truthful flavours of Hong Kong are revealed inward its indigenous food, as well as the way it is prepared, served as well as eaten. So, what's the "Must Eat" nutrient when I move Hong Kong? That's of class Dim Sum, Chinese Barbecue, Late Night Eats as well as alot more.

SIGNIFICANT HONG KONG FOOD

Dim Sum (点心) - It means ‘touch your heart’ as well as amongst equally many equally 150 items on a eating topographic point menu, as well as 2,000 inward the entire range, it is a challenge to non honor something you lot dearest or something you lot could make. Going for dim sum is known as yum cha (饮茶), which literally agency ‘drinking tea.’ Usually a brunch or dejeuner affair, it is a mutual cast of family, co-worker as well as other grouping get-togethers.

Chinese Barbecue, known as siu mei (烧味). It is impossible to missy this cuisine inward Hong Kong because after the highly-seasoned meats are roasted on spits over an opened upwards burn downwards or inward a rotisserie oven, they are hung within the eating topographic point as well as visible from the street. You’ll run across it hanging inward fast-food chains, high-end restaurants as well as supermarkets. Chinese barbecue restaurants ordinarily receive got highly flexible menus that allow you lot to couple your roast meats amongst rice, noodles or rice noodles. Combo plates enable solo diners to sample several meats inward 1 meal.

Late Night Eats (筲夜) - In Hong Kong, belatedly nighttime eats is real common. The factors include the 24 hr nature of this fast paced metropolis as well as the style of its industrious population to piece of occupation belatedly into the evening. Whatever the reasons, if you lot larn on the Hong Kong clock as well as schedule your repast a fleck later, you’ll survive able to sense some of the city’s truest flavours. From the traditional street stalls called dai pai dong (大牌档) to the late-night hotel buffets, simply almost whatsoever type of nutrient tin survive institute belatedly at night. Some of the most pop night-time eats include Chiu Chow da lang (潮州打冷), Chinese desserts, hotpot, noodles as well as congee. Look for these, as well as you’ll in all likelihood honor a bustling nighthawk venue.

Hotpot (火锅) - Eating is oft a social experience. Nothing demonstrates this improve than diners huddled to a greater extent than or less a pot of boiling meats as well as vegetables on a chilly wintertime evening. Although hot-pot-for-one makes this style of eating a possibility for whatsoever occasion, traditionally hotpot is ever a grouping event. In uniquely Hong Kong ingredients, wonton are ordinarily added into the pot. 

NOODLES AND CONGEE

Noodles as well as congee (rice porridge) are oft served nether the same roof. Some of the to a greater extent than traditional restaurants that serve both volition receive got 2 opened upwards kitchens flanking the entrance. One kitchen volition survive dedicated only to making congee, the other to making noodles.

Congee ranges from the manifestly starchy diverseness to the lighter versions that include vegetables as well as meat as well as fifty-fifty hotpots inward which the ingredients are cooked inward a congee soup. The huge diverseness of noodles as well as congee available tin survive enjoyed 24 hours a solar daytime inward the city. In fact, these are popular Late Night Eats (筲夜)

Cantonese-style Congee (广东粥) - Congee, or rice porridge, is institute all over China. However, it is unlikely that anyone puts to a greater extent than effort into congee than the people of Guangdong Province as well as Hong Kong. Raw ingredients are set inward continuously boiling rice porridge until they larn soft as well as their flavours are infused inward the entire mixture.


Chiu Chow-style Congee (潮州粥) - From Chaozhou inward Guangdong Province, Chiu Chow people receive got brought their distinct dialect as well as cuisine to Hong Kong. The departure tin survive seen inward their fresh-seafood renditions of congee, such equally the infant oyster congee.

Wonton Noodles (云吞麺) - Noodle strips made from rice, this is a staple nutrient of South Red People's Republic of China as well as Southeast Asia. Their versatility as well as flexibility mirror the characteristics of Hong Kong’s people. Traditionally, bite-sized wontons (a variety of Chinese dumpling) are served inward an aromatic stock amongst noodles that are springy to the bite. Ideally, the wontons volition survive filled lxx per cent amongst shrimp as well as thirty per cent amongst pork.  

Stir-fried Rice Noodles amongst Sliced Beef (干炒牛河) - Noodles are narrow strips of dough, ordinarily made from eggs as well as flour. They are prepared inward a staggeringly huge amount of ways inward Hong Kong, but stir-frying them is 1 of the most pop cooking methods. Stir-fried noodles amongst soy sauce as well as sliced beef is 1 of the most mutual renditions of noodles inward this style.

Cart Noodles / Tze Zai Meen (车仔麺) - Cart noodles are the best alternative for immature human being Hongkies when they demand some belatedly nighttime eats. Varieties of noodles type, as well as mix as well as agree the ingredients. This started equally a street hawker repast inward the 1950s. The mightiness to lead the break as well as types of ingredients offered an cheap meal.

SNACKS

Snacking inward Hong Kong is a various business, amongst everything from slush drinks as well as egg tarts to octopus balls available on the streets. Graze the way to a greater extent than or less Hong Kong for a truly local experience. 

In Hong Kong, snacks are ordinarily sold inward restaurants or from take-away windows on the street. The entire repertoire is vast, but hither are some classics:

Pineapple Buns (菠萝包) - This bun contained no pineapple as well as earned its mention because its chequered transcend resembles the peel of a pineapple. The transcend one-half of the bun is made from cookie-type dough, field the bottom is made from Chinese-style staff of life dough, which tends to survive softer as well as sweeter than Western bread. 

Egg Tarts (蛋挞) - A pastry-crust filled amongst egg custard as well as baked. This pop Hong Kong snack in all likelihood originates from English linguistic communication custard cakes. Some are made amongst cookie dough field others receive got a flaky pastry. The latter are oft referred to equally Portuguese egg tarts.

Wife Cake (老婆饼) - A bun filled amongst sweetness wintertime melon paste. Legend has it that when the winter-melon puffs made past times a adult woman inward Guangdong Province were highly praised inward public, her hubby proudly declared that at that topographic point were his wife’s cakes. The mention ‘wife cake’ stuck. 

Mini Egg Puffs / Egglets (鸡蛋仔) - Sweetened egg batter grilled inward a mould to brand puffs. Crunchy on the outside, soft on the inside. These days it comes inward a make of flavours, including chocolate, strawberry as well as coconut. 

White Sugar Cake (白糖糕) - Originating inward Shunde, Guangdong province, this traditional pastry is made past times steaming a dough mixture of rice flour, white sugar, H2O as well as yeast. It is sweetness amongst some sour notes as well as has a soft as well as spongy texture.

Put Zai Ko (缽仔糕) - Often translated equally ‘sticky rice pudding’, put zai ko is typically made of rice flour as well as ruby beans. These ingredients are set inward a pocket-size china bowl. When the pudding sets, it tin survive removed from the bowl on a pocket-size stick as well as eaten similar a popsicle. 

URBAN FOOD

When nosotros verbalize almost urban food, nosotros ordinarily think of Hong Kong. In Hong Kong, speed as well as efficiency are expected as well as demanded. 

Hong Kong-Style Teahouses (茶餐厅) as well as local fast nutrient chains are the one. They serve Chinese as well as localised Western dishes nether 5 minutes! Baked pork chop rice is 1 of the signature dish. Instant Noodles which ordinarily called "yat-ding" (一丁) or some preferred dried Instant Noodles "lou ding" (捞丁) are also mutual in Hong Kong-Style Teahouses. And yea, some of them await you lot to swallow them fast too! So that the adjacent client tin receive got your seats. This ever happens. Haha...

(Photo Credit : Good Life Good Times)

Although stir-fries (煮炒) are a humble domicile dish that tin survive institute anywhere. But to brand a goodness stir-fry, the chef has to receive got fantabulous cutting skills as well as ensure at that topographic point is sufficient heat, precise seasoning as well as quick thickening as well as plenty of 'wok hei' (the subtle combination of smell as well as sense of savour that a well-used wok imparts to food). It won't survive hard to honor a goodness stir nipper inward Hong Kong. Typical 'dai pai dong' (大牌档) serves some of the best stir fries. Sweet as well as Sour Pork is in all likelihood 1 of the Cantonese-style dish that is mutual to tourists. 

(Photo Credit : Discover Hong Kong)

RURAL FOOD

Some Hong Kong's early on inhabitants lived inward walled-villages (围村) inward the present-day New Territories (新界). The walled villages until today, rest it's tradition as well as so does the unique cooking styles of their residents. I receive got a Hong Kong friend who grew upwards inward walled hamlet as well as she shared amongst me almost it. Walled hamlet nutrient puts a rigid emphasis on freshness as well as on eating ingredients that are inward season. This type of cuisine is typically rustic as well as hearty, although to a greater extent than exotic as well as creative interpretations are also available.

Photo Credit : China Daily USA

The most notable walled hamlet dish is called 'poon choi' (盆菜), or 'big bowl feast'. H5N1 huge amount of ingredients are layered inward a large bowl as well as eaten communally. One large bowl feast could include pork, beef, lamb abalone, chicken, duck, shrimp, crab, various mushroom, chinese radish as well as tofu inward none to 12 layers. That's plenty to satisfy a grouping of 10 people. The ingredients are non mixed. The bowl's contents are eaten layer past times layer. 

'Poon choi' (盆菜) has larn a nutrient sense unique to Hong Kong as well as is listed equally business office of the city's intangible cultural heritage. 

One real interesting finding during my trip to Hong Kong Last week. I institute rural nutrient inward urban area! I institute 'gow zai fun' (狗仔粉), literally puppy noodles if you lot desire it to survive translated. This was institute inward 1960's street food. Hong Kong's economic scheme was bad dorsum then, 'shun tak' (顺德) people used hot H2O as well as rice flour to brand some viscous noodles to proceed their breadbasket full. The noodles are manus made, as well as it's shape looked similar puppy's tail, as well as hence, they named it 'gow zai fun'. To create the noodles, dried shrimps (虾米), preserved turnips (菜脯), pork lard bits (猪油渣), chinese mushroons (冬菇), as well as other condiments are used. It's elementary as well as I'd guarantee you lot that this is so so so so delicious! I asked my Hong Kong friend almost it, as well as they told me that this is straightaway considered equally a rural nutrient as well as tin only survive institute inward villages area. I'm surprised that I run across this inward Yau Ma Tei (油麻地) area! I'm totally hooked amongst this old-fashioned food.

Macanese Cuisine

Macau's cooking consist of a blend of Cantonese as well as Portuguese cuisines. Many unique dishes resulted from the spice blends that the wives of Portuguese sailors used inward an endeavour to replicate European dishes. Its ingredients as well as seasonings includes those from Europe, South America, Africa, India, as well as Southeast Asia, equally good equally local Chinese ingredients.

Typically, Macanese nutrient is seasoned amongst various spices as well as flavors including turmeric, kokosnoot milk cinnamon as well as bacalhau (Portugese dried as well as salted cod) that gives exceptional aromas as well as tastes. It is non hard to sympathise that Macau has its renowned for its flavor-blending culture, as well as modern Macanese cuisine may survive considered a type of fusion cuisine. Pork chop bun, ginger milk as well as Portuguese-style egg tart are the real pop modern nutrient inward Macau. Ask whatsoever tourist who went Macau before, they volition survive able to tell you lot "Yes! Must essay pork chop bun as well as Portuguese-style egg tart!!!"

Yea, I tried both when I'm inward Macau.

The Portuguese egg tart is Macau's most famous food. It consists of flaky pastry shell, amongst a rich, sweetness egg custart filling amongst a consistency similar to Crème brûlée. A caramelized transcend plays an integral move inward the taste. Everywhere from restaurants as well as hotels to street nutrient vendors sells them.

Pork Chop bun is some other well-known Macau street food. It is literally a seasoned pork chop on a bun. The pork is incredibly tender as well as flavorful, rests inward a piggy bun, which has a crunchy exterior, soft centre as well as a goodness chew that gives you lot a elementary but total of satisfaction.

Serradura, the not-so appealing mention for a dessert that translates from Portuguese equally "Sawdust". It is much loved dessert inward Macau. It is a waste materials that I didn't larn to sense of savour it when I'm inward Macau concluding week. It is a chilled pudding, inward a semifreddo style. It is basically a layered dessert of sweetness biscuits crushed to resemble sawdust, cream, condensed milk as well as vanilla.

(Photo Credit : Tra News) 

Almond cookies are also good known inward Macau. They tin survive institute everywhere. One of the best known places to larn them is Koi Kee Bakery, amongst numerous of branches. It's almond cookies are baked on the premises, as well as receive got gritty texture as well as nutty flavor, made amongst mung edible bean flour. 

  (Photo Credit : A Coffeeholic Travel Tale)

I took a motorbus that takes me 31 motorbus halt journeying simply to see a Portuguese restaurant. I was told that their Portuguese dishes are great. Throughout the dinner, these are the 2 dishes that attracts me. Drunken Steak as well as Macanese roast chicken. Don't inquire me what's the actual mention of the dish. This is what it's stated on the menu, as well as the waitress claimed that it is traditional food. If you lot know these 2 dishes, exercise allow me know.

Shrimp Roe Noodles (虾籽麺) - You may telephone band this grayness area. Because both Hong Kong as well as Macau serves this noodles. I institute a pocket-size store sells dried shrimp roe noodles as well as I bought a few parcel home. With my conversation amongst the store possessor who'd at her historic menstruum of lxx years old, she said that Shrimp Roe Noodles is originated from Macau. How true? I'm non sure. If you lot know, pls tell me. I only know that this is truly good. Shrimp roe noodles are good cooked, drizzle amongst some shrimp glue sauce, oil, some soy sauce as well as and then topped amongst shrimp roe as well as light-green onions. It's so yumm!

Despite all those signature nutrient featured all over the social media, I exercise realized that Chinese nutrient inward Macau is truly the same inward Hong Kong. Typical noodles as well as congee, egg tarts, polo buns, as well as the listing goes on. 

So, remember... If you lot wants to create Macau dishes, exercise essay to create some famous as well as signature Macanese nutrient ok? :)

Sites as well as Food Blogs dedicated for your reference : 

Hong Kong Cuisines
Cantonese Style Congee - Taste Hong Kong
Sha Tin Chicken Congee - 沙田鸡粥 at Youtube
Puppy Noodles 狗仔粉 - Wonderful Sky
HK Style Wanton Noodles - Steamy Kitchen
HK Egg Tart - Kitchen Tigress
HK Egglets 鸡蛋仔 - Christine's Recipe
White Sugar Cake 白糖糕 - Wendyinkk
Polo Bun 菠萝包 - Grace Kitchen Corner
Stir Fried Clams amongst dark edible bean sauce - Christine's Recipe
HK Zha Jiang Noodles - Christine's Recipe 
Supreme Soy Sauce Fried Noodles - Christine's Recipe
Macaroni Soup amongst Ham (火腿通心粉) - Christine's Recipe
HK Sweet Bun / Pai Bao (排包) - Christine's Recipe
HK Turnip Cake (香港萝卜糕) - Vio Kitchen
Water Chestnut Cake (马蹄糕) - Christine's Recipe
Here's a listing of HK dishes (香港街头小吃) past times Maise Kitchen - 香港街头小吃

Macau Cuisines
Almond Cookies (杏仁饼) - Lily Wai SekHong
Serradura - My Buttery Fingers 
Macanese Chicken (葡國雞) - Open Rice

These are the few references I found. I'm non certain almost the accuracy tho. Do some homework as well as google more. You may honor some improve recipe than this. 

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