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breakfast
Traditional Chinese breakfasts tend to be simple, featuring congee, rice rolls, and dumplings, bu...
soy sauce stir-fried noodles
Thin, crispy, stir-fried noodles tossed in soy sauce, this meatless Cantonese dish is a popular b...
coffee
Coffee is not exactly a traditional dim sum drunk, but it's a common offering with Hong Kong brea...
latte
Personal Note During a trip to Macau, one of my colleagues unsuccessfully ordered a latte. This ...
congee
Rice porridge, also known as congee (originating from the Tamil word for rice porridge, kanji) or...
plain congee
Plain congee, with nothing mixed in.
congee w/ dried scallops
Congee with dried scallops.
pork w/ preserved egg congee
Congee with salty pork and preserved egg, which are eggs that jelly while encased in clay mixture...
fish congee
Congee with slices of fish fillet. This is a standard rice porridge served for breakfast and dim ...
fried dough
A stick of deep-fried dough, basically a long doughnut, listed variously in English as Chinese cr...
rice roll
Rice rolls, also known as rice noodle rolls are steamed sheets of rice flour dough rolled up and ...
lotus leaf sticky rice
Glutinous rice wrapped and steamed in a lotus leaf (don't eat the leaf), containing meat, mushroo...
Hong Kong-style French toast
Hong Kong-style French toast is a heart-attack inducing combination made from thick-sliced white ...