Frank introduces rice roll with fried dough stick

Frank writes about the rice roll with dried dough stick

Frank the tour guide introduces the steamed rice roll with fired dough stick to readers in his new post at Easy Hong Kong Private Tour blog.

How to taste the steamed rice rolls with fried dough stick?

Frank focuses on how to taste this local delicacy.

First eaters need to enjoy it when it is hot and fresh to get the soft outside and crispy inside mouthfeel at the same time.

Second eaters should pick up the plain roll to dip different sauces to make it the real delicacy.

For details, please browse Frank's post.

Besides the rice roll with fried dough, clients can eat more during included lunch in Frank's tour

Apart from rice roll with fried dough, there are a lot of local delicacies waiting for travelers.

Clients can taste different dim sum during the included lunch in Frank's Hong Kong full day private tour. 

Three Hong Kong fusion foods

Three fusion foods of Hong Kong

Just share three Hong Kong fusion foods with you.

Fusion dim sum - Baked Barbecued Pork Bun

Traditionally, Chinese steam the flour dough with different fillings to make our bun. 

The steamed barbecued pork bun (Char Siu Pao叉燒包) is a Cantonese popular signature dim sum.

Hong Kong dim sum chefs learn from the Western bakery to make the baked barbecued pork bun(Char Siu Chan Pao叉燒餐包). 

With the honey on the top, it is even sweeter than the steamed one.

Fusion main dish - fried Udon noodle(炒烏冬麵)

The relationship between China and Japan is not always very good. 

But the combination between the Chinese cooking style and Japanese Udon noodle is always tasty. 

Japanese eat Udon noodle with soup mainly. 

Hong Kong chefs just fry Udon noodle with meat / seafood and soy sauce. 

Traditional Chinese fried noodle is crispy. 

The fried Udon noodle is thicker and chewier.

Fusion dessert - mango pudding glutinous rice roll(香芒糯米卷)

The steamed flour roll with roasted pork or glutinous rice is the common dim sum. 

Hong Kong chefs just show their creativity by combining the flour roll with mango pudding to make a fusion dessert. 

The chewy flour roll and the sweet pudding make a memorable texture.

You can taste the above-mentioned fusion foods in Hong Kong’s local dim sum restaurants (further reading: 5 kinds of food you can taste in the Cantonese Restaurants).

We have private car tours with included local dim sum meals. For details, please browse:

Kowloon half day private tour

Full day Hong Kong Kowloon private tour

Full day round Hong Kong Island private tour 

Full day Hong Kong Lantau Big Buddha tour 

You can also contact Frank the tour guide for private tour planning.

Five kinds of food you can taste in the Cantonese restaurants

Cantonese restaurants' five kinds of food

Hong Kong is the dining capital and the Cantonese restaurants in Hong Kong are the miniature of the culinary capital! You can taste five 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.

You may consider the following private tour options, which include the dim sum meal...

Full day Hong Kong Kowloon city tour

Round Hong Kong Island full day private tour

Hong Kong Lantau Island full day private tour

Kowloon half day culture tour

For further private tour planning, please contact Frank the tour guide.

Five things, which the travelers forget to do at Stanley Market

Five things travelers should do at Stanley

Apart from shopping at the Stanley Market and dining at the Stanley waterfront, travelers can do five more important and interesting things at that famous small peninsula.

(1)Mail the post cards at the Stanley Post Office

If you want to mail the beautiful post cards to your friends after shopping at Stanley, you can go to the Stanley Post Office, which was built in 1937. 

It is the oldest post office in operation in Hong Kong.

(2)Buy the drinks at the Old Stanley Police Station

After shopping, you may feel very thirsty.  You can go to the Old Stanley Police Station, which is a supermarket today.

The old police station was built in 1859.  The government just restores and re-uses it.  

So you can buy the drinks at a special supermarket, which is the heritage building.

(3)Visit the Stanley War Cemetery

British soldiers were the first customers of the Stanley Market.  

During WWII, the Commonwealth soldiers at Stanley fought until the last minute and surrendered to the Japanese on the Christmas evening of 1941.  

Lots of heroes, who lost their lives in the line of duty, were buried at the Stanley War Cemetery.  

You can visit the cemetery to salute the heroes and enjoy a good view of Stanley Peninsula.

(4)Visit the Goddess of the Seas Temple

The Goddess of the Seas Temple is often ignored by the travelers because of its location.  

It is actually a museum of Chinese religions or Chinese religion supermarket, as the temple has more than 10 gods' statues.  

You can learn more about the Chinese religions or get the helps from different gods very easily.  

Also the 'tiger skin',which was taken from a killed tiger at Stanley in 1942, is an interesting exhibit.

(5)Enjoy dim sum at the Stanley Plaza

Now you can enjoy very good dim sum at a restaurant at the Stanley Plaza.  

The restaurant has lots of modernized traditional Chinese cuisines.  

If you are not very hungry and just want to have a light meal, you may even just order ONE shrimp dumpling and ONE pork dumpling. 

Remember the normal Chinese tea is free of charge!

If YOU want to have a private tour, which includes visit to Stanley, YOU may contact Frank the tour guide for private tour planning.

YOU may also browse the webpages of the three easy private car tour options... 

Half day Hong Kong highlights tour

Full day Hong Kong Kowloon tour

Round Hong Kong Island full day tour

Three Different definitions for 'Afternoon Tea' in Hong Kong

'Afternoon tea' has three different meanings in Hong Kong

In the dining capital, Hong Kong, there are THREE different meanings for the 'afternoon tea'......

-Discounted foods at the DIM SUM RESTAURANTS

After lunch time, for attracting more customers, the DIM SUM RESTAURANTS have the 'afternoon tea time'.  

Mostly during 2:00PM-4:00PM, customers can enjoy the same but largely discounted dim sum.

-Local style afternoon tea sets in the TEA CAFES

Hong Kong citizens enjoy their tea break at about 3:15PM.  

For serving the customers, Hong Kong's TEA CAFES (Cha Chan Tan茶餐廳) have different types of cheap but tasty afternoon tea sets.  

From mostly 2:00PM - 6:00PM, you just need to pay about 25 - 40 HKD to enjoy the tasty toast plus tea, dumplings noodle plus coffee etc.

-English high tea at the HOTELS

At the HOTELS, afternoon tea means the traditional and elegant English high tea.  

Although Hong Kong has reunited with China, you can still enjoy the very good English high tea at the famous Peninsula Hotel.

The queue there is always long. So please go earlier or book in advance!

Apart from Chinese cultural elements, the easy Kowloon city tour includes the local style tea break.

YOU may choose to have dim sum or French Toast.

For tour details, please browse the tour webpage.

YOU may contact Frank the tour guide for private tour planning.