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salt and pepper eggplant
Eggplant seasoned with with salt and pepper.
salt and pepper crab
Deep-fried soft shell crab seasoned with with salt and pepper.
sandwich
A Hong Kong-style sandwich. Sandwiches are a standard offering of Hong Kong-style cafes, typicall...
club sandwich
A Hong Kong-style club sandwich. Personal Note I used to order this frequently from the company...
BLT
A bacon, lettuce, and tomato sandwich. Personal Note For a sandwich with a short English name, ...
corned beef egg sandwich
A Hong Kong-style sandwich with corned beef and scrambled egg.
spam and egg sandwich
A Hong Kong-style sandwich with pan-fried spam and scrambled egg.
7 Up
salted lime 7 Up
7-Up or Sprite combined with preserved limes is a street food and cha chaan teng drink and also p...
Sprite
雪 is snow, and 碧 is blue-green, so 雪碧 kind of sounds like Sprite and kind of looks like Sprite) (...
Fanta
芬達 is a loanword for Fanta (the Mandarin pronunciation (fēn dá) sounds especially close).
soup of the day
Soup of the day is a standard feature of (Hong Kong cafes), often included in a set meal.
spring roll
Cantonese spring rolls are deep-fried with a thin crispy wrapper and filled with minced pork, bea...
vegetable spring roll
Spring rolls with no meat, just vegetables.
Earl Grey tea
Earl Grey is an English tea (though legend has it that it was a Chinese gift to the second Earl o...
Darjeeling tea
Darjeeling tea is a black tea originating fron the Darjeeing district in West Bengal, India.
Lipton
Lipton is a British-American tea brand with an international presence. It's a standard ingredient...
honey citrus tea
A traditional Korean herbal tea made from sugar, honey and the Japanese fruit yuzu, known as yuja...