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Friday, August 21, 2009

...Hong Kong Summer Studies Part II

Hong Kong food i miss u all

Toast with creamy butter and condensed milk is a so popular snack in HK. All茶餐厅(what they call HK coffee-shops)have this snack. Cost about S$1.50 for 2(slices). It's like SG's kaya toast, but replace kaya with condensed milk. DElicious.I tried making this at home, but somehow it just tasted different:( I miss you, HK's toast.

Tastes better than it looks

Had a few Mac/KFC meals in HK. I was rather curious about whether Mac or KFC tastes the same all over the world. Nope. Ok Mac's burgers and applepie tasted the same, just that the size of HK Mac burgers are 3/4 of SG's mac burgers. Cheaper but factoring the reduced in size, it's about the same lo. Original chicken in HK(cos i only ate original chicken)tasted less salty and sweeter than SG's.In terms of oiliness both are the same:( I personally prefer the SG version of original chicken. Nonetheless, HK's KFC serves more variety of chicken, like they have BBQ etc and they also serve Egg Tarts and chips(they also have fries).But the most shocking thing was HK's KFC doesn't serve whipped potato. Instead of potato, you get rice beneath the brown salty-pepperish sauce(with mushroom).This, I hope SG's KFC will import. like it much more than the sweetish original chicken.

HK version of a KFC meal

Egg tarts should be spelt E-V-E-R-Y-W-H-E-R-E-I-N-H-K! Even KFC has egg tart, please.You can get it in HK at S$0.20(ParkandShop Supermarket). The average price in bakeries is about S$0.50.But the most famous is still Tai Chang's Egg Tart(S$0.80 each. considered to be very expensive in HK). They even had British Prime Minister to support them lor(read from the many newspaper cuttings they pasted on their glass window). I also realised that HK ppl like to eat Coconut Tarts alot. We also have those in SG. But in SG, egg tart is like the more popular one. In HK, Coconut tart can be considered as having the same rank as egg tart! Look like SG's version but softer(like more wet). I find SG's version of coconut tart more dry.Actually same for egg tarts. In SG and Msia, the egg part is harder and drier whereas HK's is more wet and also softer.Egg texture?i vote for SG/MY's version, taste and smell? i prefer HK's. Crust? I vote for Msia's biscuit crust, not the flaky crust in HK.

TaiChang's EggTart

Where HK's best egg tarts are made

Famous Bakery known for their Egg Tart, Central Branch is their HQ

From the photo above, do you see the contrast between the upper building and the lower part of the shophouse? HK is like that, most buildings are old old looking, with paint coming off and water dripping aircons. Even if the shops at the ground are those high-end shops, nothing will be done to the old looking top part to match the highclass-ness of the bottom part.
Everytime i ate my snacks and walk below the row of aircons i made sure i stop eating, put my food back into the paper bag first before proceeding. The paths in HK are quite narrow so i couldn't really 'siam' the aircons. In HK,this is a common side(high-class mall and a old run down block side by side, old water dripping aircon) Not as organised and highly maintained as SG.

DimSum of course, is predictable to be a must-post HK food. Surprisingly, dimsum is not as common as what i expected. Thought it would be as easy to find as egg tart. Nope.Oh but all high class chinese restaurant serve dimsum.Really few HK coffee shops(茶餐厅）serve dimsum. Only after my 3rd week in HK, i found a dimsum stall in ShaTin hawker center.
(Quick Info:In Hong Kong, hawker centers are only found in markets but not all markets have hawker center...in other words HK has very little hawker centers.)
Anyway, HK ppl like to use egg yolk in many of their dishes. And i like it! But I can find dimsum that is as good as HK's over here in SG. So, i felt a little disappointed about their dimsum.

Some photos...

Chicken Gluttinous Rice(aka 珍珠米）was the best dimsum dish i had in HK. Havent found one that tastes as good in SG

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Dimsum with friends. One meal is about S$12 per person

Even though HK food was great(especially their pastries), but i really missed the fried noodle dishes in SG when i was overseas. You see, most noodle stuff (even wanton mee) were always served in soup. So after a while they tasted about the same to me. Many even used maggie noodle as their mee-_- So after i came back to SG, the first hawker dish i had was
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.Fried Kway Tiao!!

On the day i came back to SG, met CZ for lunch and requested to eat Fried Kway Tiao. Even though its not the best FWT in SG, but it tasted so delicious to me. Maybe i hungry also ha.HK should really import our 'Fried Kway Tiao' while we import their 'rice with whipped-potato sauce' idea lar.

Ok. My HK food talk shall end here. Next post- SHOPPING!Tata

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