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beer
Chinese beer has been around for nine thousand years, but restaurants have the modern stuff.
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 ...
cola
Cola soft drink. You would use this word when ordering a Coke (but there's another word specifica...
lemon cola
Cola soft drink with slices of lemon.
diet Coke
健 is healthy, 怡 is pleasure, and 健怡 is cola, so 健怡可樂 is healthy pleasure cola (which sounds more ...
Pepsi
The Cantonese for Pepsi is baak sih, which sort of sounds like Pepsi (the Mandarin pronuncation b...
grass jelly
Grass jelly is served as dessert or mixed in drinks.
drinks
飲 is to drink, and 品 is item, so 飲品 is drink items. Ordering 杯 is cup (or mug or glass) and is ...
liquor
酒 refers to any alcoholic drink, but China has its own long history of liquor, including wine and...
cold drinks
Usually refers to non-alcholic cold drinks.
hot drinks
yogurt
Purple rice yogurt (yogurt with purple rice mixed in) is popular in Australia and China, populari...
steamed egg
Egg mixed with water and then steamed. Basically steamed scrambled egg, but resembling a custard....
fruit juice
mango juice
orange juice
pineapple juice
Pineapple juice is popular in Southeast Asia although not quite as much in China.