Hong Kong Cantonese Food

The most common Chinese food in Hong Kong is Cantonese, from China's southern Guangdong province. Dishes consist of extremely fresh food, quickly cooked and only lightly seasoned. Popular ingredients are fruit and vegetables, fish and shellfish, though the cuisine is also known for its more unusual ingredients – things like fish maw, snake liver, dog and guinea pig – which most Westerners would baulk at eating. Cantonese restaurants also have the best selection of dim sum ('little eats'), a midday meal consisting of small flavoured buns, dumplings and pancakes, washed down with copious amounts of tea. The food is wheeled in trolleys through the restaurant: they'll come to your table and you select what you want. Most things cost the same, around HK$20–40 each, and you'll find it hard to spend more than HK$90–120 a head. Restaurants that specialize in dim sum open early in the morning, from around 7am, and serve right through lunch up until around 5pm; many regular Cantonese restaurants also serve dim sum, usually 10–11am until 3pm. It's best to go in a group so that you can order a number of items to share."