Hong-Kong

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Geography and Climate

Culture

Dim Sum

Dim sum refers to a style of Chinese food prepared as small bite-sized or individual portions of food traditionally served in small steamer baskets or on small plates. Dim sum is also well known for the unique way it is served in some restaurants, wherein fully cooked and ready-to-serve dim sum dishes are carted around the restaurant for customers to choose their orders while seated at their tables.

Hot Pot

This hot pot cuisine, known as daa bin lou (, dbinl) in Cantonese, is unique in the sense that everyone is a chef. A boiling pot of water (soup-based, and customers can choose their preferred soup taste), is placed in the center of the table, and essentially everyone boils their own ingredients in that pot

Budhist Cuisine

This cuisine is essentially vegetarian specialties using tofu, wheat gluten, mushroom and other non-animal sourced ingredients. Despite the name, the cuisine is enjoyed by many nonBuddhists. Hong Kong's vegetarian dishes, as part of the Cantonese branch of Chinese vegetarian cuisine, puts emphasis on meat analogue substitutes to the point where it can taste and look identical to real meat, often by using deep-fried gluten and tofu to recreate meat-like textures, and heavy-flavored sauces are prepared for the dishes. Even committed meat-eaters enjoy the cuisine regularly.

Salt baked chicken in Hakka cuisine

This form of cooking style from the Hakka people originally came from Guangdong andFujian in southeastern China. The style uses dried and preserved ingredients. Pork is by far the most common meat in the style. Includes:

Hawker selling roasted chestnuts

These are basically streetside food stalls, operated by usually one or two people pushing a cart. The carts are usually very mobile, allowing the business freedom to sell snacks in whichever area is most populated at a particular point in time. While they have been popular in the 1970s and 1980s, tight health regulations and other forms of lease versus licensedhawker restrictions have put a burden on this mobile food culture.[16] The term Jau Gweibecame associated with the hawkers trying to avoid restrictions.

Interesting Places

Victoria peak

Bay Wave

Hong Kong National Geopark

Hong Kong WetLand Park

Hong Kong Museum

Hong Kong City

The Clock Tower

Golden Bauhinia Square

The Wisdom Path, Lantau Island

Thung Chung Fort, Lantau Island

Conclusions