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Chinese sausage roll
This is a Chinese sausage wrapped in a steamed wheat bun, so it's also listed as Chinese sausage ...
chow fun
Cantonese wide flat rice noodles. The English pronunciation chow fun actually corresponds to the ...
beef chow fun
A Cantonese classic, beef chow fun consists of wide flat rice noodles stir-fried with beef and be...
wet beef chow fun
Stir-fried like dry beef chow fun but then mixed with a thick sauce.
chicken chow fun
Chow fun with chicken.
shrimp chow fun
Chow fun with shrimp.
shrimp w/ scrambled egg and satay chow fun
Chow fun with shrimp, scrambled egg, and satay sauce.
char kway teow
A popular Malaysian dish and street food staple, originally developed for Chinese in Southeast As...
stir-fried noodles
Chow mein is a general term for stir-fried noodles, including the steamed soft noodles familiar i...
soy sauce stir-fried noodles
Thin, crispy, stir-fried noodles tossed in soy sauce, this meatless Cantonese dish is a popular b...
choy sum
Choy sum is a leafy green vegetable similar to Chinese broccoli.
choy sum with oyster sauce
Choy sum boiled or steamed and served with oyster sauce.
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...