5 kinds of food you can taste in the Cantonese Restaurants 五大類你可以在港式酒家品嚐的食物
Hong Kong is the dining capital and the Cantonese restaurants in Hong Kong are the miniature of the culinary capital! You can taste 5 kinds of food there.
(1) DIM SUM (mostly serve from 0700-1700, some restaurants have the night time dim sum)
Dim sum is the many different kinds of exquisite little snacks, buns, dumplings, rolls etc. The chefs prepare the dim sum by steaming, frying, deep-frying etc. The main ingredients are pork, shrimp and vegetable. You may regard dim sum, e.g. the famous shrimp dumpling (Ha Gau蝦餃) and barbecued pork bun (Cha Shao Bao叉燒包), as the hot appetizers.
(2) CANTONESE BARBECUE(serve from 1100)
In most Cantonese restaurants, you can find a kitchen-like room next to the entrance. You can find lots of barbecue pork, roasted geese, soy sauce chicken etc behind the room's big window. Busy local workers may buy the lunch boxes there with rice and Cantonese barbecue to take away. You, the leisure travelers, can order a bowl of rice with chicken or barbecue platter to enjoy in the restaurants.
(3) RICE, NOODLE & RICE NOODLE(serve from 1100)
Apart from the barbecue, the chefs mix the rice, noodle and rice noodle with lots of other ingredients for you. Like the famous spicy fusion cuisine, fried rice noodle in Singaporean style (Sing Chow Chao Mic星洲炒米), it is made by the barbecue pork, shrimp, chili and onion. You can also have something in soup, e.g. the rice noodle in soup with roasted goose slice & preserved vegetable (Suet Choi For Ap Si Tong Mic雪菜火鴨絲湯米).
(4) MAIN DISHES(serve from 1100)
The main dishes are the perfect combination of the meat, seafood and vegetable. For example, the chefs can use the grouper to make three dishes for you, fried grouper fillet with celery, steam grouper belly and soup with grouper bone. The restaurants have different set lunch/dinner menus, which consist of different main dishes, for you to choose. As the main dishes are made by the best foods, they are more expensive than dim sum.
(5) DESSERT(serve from 1100)
The set lunch/dinner menus always have desserts included. You can also find them on the dim sum menu and order them separately. Green bean soup(Look Dau Sha綠豆沙), Osmanthus Jelly(Kwai Fa Go桂花糕) etc are common. Some restaurants can offer you something like the 'mango pudding glutinous rice flour roll' (Mon Guo Law Mic Kuen芒果糯米卷) and Pumpkin Soup(Nam Gwa Lo南瓜露).
Mouthwatering??? No need to find the big brand or the one with Michelin Star, just find one Cantonese restaurant on the main roads/in the malls and you can enjoy all the above-mentioned delicacies.
中國北方旅客和亞洲旅客常常會被港式酒家的菜牌嚇倒，因為選擇實在太多了！其實共有五大類食品在港式酒家等候你品嚐。
(1)點心(多由開店至下午五時供應，亦有在晚間夜茶時段供應)
點心是到港式酒家「飲茶」的主角，有包、餃、卷、糕等項，烹調方法包括蒸炒煮炸，某些點心，如一籠有四顆的蝦餃和一籠有三顆的潮州粉果，像中國北方的主食蒸餃子。但港式點心較小和精緻，是小食，不是主食。
(2)燒味(早上十一時起供應)
想填飽肚子，可以吃各式廣東燒味。一起點一隻豉油雞/燒鵝分而食之可以，分開點一碟各式燒味飯「各自搵食」亦可。
(3)粉麵飯(早上十一時起供應)
想豐富些，可以再點各式粉麵飯。基本上，附帶在粉麵飯的各種食物的搭配是自由的，你可以選「菜遠/蕃茄/涼瓜」配「牛肉/豬肉/斑腩」加白飯，或者你可以選一些歷史尤久的固定配搭，如鳳爪排骨蒸飯、星洲炒米、楊州炒飯等。
(4)主菜(早上十一時起供應)
想吃得好一點，可以點各式主菜。你可以自選，如你選一尾石斑，廚師就可以為你做最少兩道菜，「起肉炒球」和「蒸頭腩」。你也可以選酒家已經整理好的「套餐」，多是幾個菜色配一鍋湯/羹，整桌人可大快朵頤。
(5)甜品(早上十一時起供應)
套餐有包水果和甜品的，多是綠豆沙或紅豆沙。你也可以在點心紙(用來選點心的名單)上找到一些特別的甜食，如芒果糯米卷、高力豆沙、淮山南瓜露，你可以點些點心，一碗燒味飯，加些甜品，不是「大胃王」的話，應該夠了。
肚子餓了嗎???不用找名牌，到大街上或商場中的其中一間港式酒家就可開餐了。
