by Steve | Apr 1, 2014 | Pork & Century Egg Congee & Fried Dough Sticks
Rice is deeply embedded in Chinese food culture. It is the most widely consumed staple food for a large part of the world’s human population, especially in Asia. Hong Kong yearly consumption of rice was 322,800 tonnes which rice-imports act as the main source of...
by Steve | Mar 5, 2014 | Toast & Milk Tea
Butter still plays an important role in our daily life. It is an essential ingredient in baking cakes or cookies while people also use butter as cooking oil to prepare different cruises as well as a sauce for flavoring. “Bo lo yau”, which is pineapple bun...
by Steve | Mar 4, 2014 | Toast & Milk Tea
Sugar is the basic ingredient for cooking. It can be easily obtained in supermarket and local stores. While white sugar is the common form, brown sugar is also widely used in many different dishes and beverages. So, what’s the story behind the ‘white gold’? How does...
by Steve | Mar 3, 2014 | Toast & Milk Tea
Often used in local cuisine and speciality, sweetened condensed milk is seen as one of the distinct features marking the uniqueness of Hong Kong dishes. It can be more than a food source, symbolizing an important part of local food culture and manifesting collective...
by Steve | Mar 2, 2014 | Toast & Milk Tea
Black tea is the main ingredient of Hong Kong style milk tea while it is known that Hong Kong-style milk tea is largely comprised of Ceylon tea and Pu Lei. Black tea leaves are a mixture of broken oxidized leaves. In dry form, they appear to be black in colour, but...
