food. Delicious #7 : Journey to discovering authentic Hong Kong dim sum.
Dear Steemit Friends:
A visit to Hong Kong necessitates the food lovers curiosity in trying out all the wonderful food that exists in this small yet diverse culinary heaven. One of the most famous and representative foods of Hong Kong is none other than the traditional Hong Kong Dim Sum. Today, I'm taking everyone to one of the most authentic places to eat Dim Sum, a place that will push your chopstick stamina to the limit! Dim Sum is a staple food offering to the local residents of Hong Kong, much like how in the west, people are accustomed to having Eggs, Bacon, Sausages and Beans for English breakfast. For this visit, I searched the web for the highest rated Dim Sum restaurant and found Tao Heung (稻香).
Workers are lining up outside various small eateries to get their breakfast before work starts. It's actually quite a busy time with lots of people waiting to get their morning fix of food before a long day at work.
Foreign labourers are an integral part to the culture of Hong Kong. On the weekend, these foreign labourers will gather together. Here are some gathered at Tong Lo Wan's Victoria Garden.
To new visitors of Hong Kong, taking the metro might be quite a daunting task but it needn't be.
To travel on the metro, simply touch the station you'd like to go to, and pay the fee. You will be issued with a temporary metro card to cover for that journey.
These are the automatic / self service recharge booths.
Hong Kong's effort to curb environmental harm is helped by these differentiated bins located across the city.
To save time, the escalators are noticably faster.
We arrived at the station very quickly.
The route maps are very succint and clear.
Here's a small secret, a lot of Dim Sum restaurants will have discounts after 2pm. So it is quite common to see quite a few people mostly elderly people waiting outside queuing, even if the restaurant has plenty of seating available.
This restaurant like many others in Hong Kong is on the basement level.
The restaurant area is very large.
Just looking at the menu, i'm already very attracted to the food.
After making our order, it's a normal convention in Hong Kong (as well as many other Asian regions) to use hot water to scald the cutlery.
A nice elderly lady serves the first of our dishes.
I was really looking forward to the first dish, which is the Thousand Flakes Prawn. The sauce on top is a sweet and sour paste sauce. This together with the crispy outer layer and soft prawn meat on the inside make for a perfect compliment. This is a dish hard to find anywhere else.
Fish balls with fresh boiled lettuce. This is cooked in a soup stock making the flavour really full.
This is a dish i've also never seen anywhere else. On top, you have prawn, and on the bottom tofu. It tastes quite soft and has wonderful fresh fragrance. This one I found hard not to have a repeat serving.
Fried fermented four treasures, this is made by putting fermented meat into the inside of a pepper and then fried. Finally some soy sauce added to taste. It's mouth wateringly good!
Perhaps the most well known Dim Sum dish is also this restaurants speciality. The steamed prawn dumplings or (Har Gau). You can see the intricate folded wrinkles on the dumpling itself. It's a small detail, but shows the good culinary craft of the Hong Kong Dim Sum chefs here.
Aside from being beautifully wrapped. The colour and lustre of the prawn meat inside the dumpling is very appealing too.
It tastes every bit as good as it looks!
Bamboo fungus with mushroom soup broth. This tastes a little bit sour and is perfect as an appetiser!
Fish Egg Prawn Siu Mai. The meat is just delectable and very plump.
Below we have the sweet desserts. First up is the Mango Pomelo Sago, the pomelo is a little sour but overall it's a sweet dish and very refreshing after eating quite a bit of fried foods.
Even though I ordered a lot of Dim Sum, it just tastes so good that I managed to eat it all!
Not only is the taste of the dim sum here superb, the restaurant always pays attention to the colour, lustre and appearance of it's dishes. The dim sum truly smells, looks and tastes great!
Another distinguishing feature of this restaurant is the wide variety of sauces available to compliment the dim sum to your tastes.
There are many sauces to choose from,simply help yourself with the small plates provided.
There are also refillable drinks, beverages and even ice cream!
Most Cantonese restaurants will have an area dedicated to the God of Wealth. They believe that by paying respect to this god, their restaurant business will continue to flourish.
Thank you for following my very delicious Dim Sum journey, I hope that everyone will get the opportunity to try the amazing food Hong Kong has to offer. More delicious food to come!
If you are interested in my other blogs related to Food please check out these other blogs below ^^
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