Hong Kong-style western cuisine

The cha chaan teng (lit. tea restaurant) is a kind of restaurant commonly found in Hong Kong. Many people regard the cha chaan teng a characteristic product of Hong Kong, for its eclectic menus and efficient if not perfect service. Cha chaan teng - Name. The cha chaan teng provides tea (usually weak tea) contained in brown plastic cups, called 清茶 (Cantonese Jyutping: cing1 caa4) , to customers as soon as they are seated, although many patrons use the tea to was ...

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The cha chaan teng serves a wide range of food, from steak to wonton noodle to curry to sandwiches. Both fast food and a la carte dishes are provided in cha chaan tengs. A big cha chaan teng often consists of three cooking places: a "water bar" (水吧) which makes drinks, toasts/sandwiches and instant noodles, a "noodle stall" which prepares Chiuchow-style noodle (including wonton noodle), and a kitchen for producing rice plates and other more expensive dishes. A few famous cha chaan tengs only comprises ...

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The cha chaan teng serves a wide range of food, from steak to wonton noodle to curry to sandwiches. Both fast food and a la carte dishes are provided in cha chaan tengs. A big cha chaan teng often consists of three cooking places: a "water bar" (水吧) which makes drinks, toast/sandwiches and instant noodle, a "noodle stall" which prepares Chiuchow-style noodle (including wonton noodle), and a kitchen for producing rice plates and other more expensive dishes. A few famous cha chaan tengs only comprise ...

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Cha chaan teng, Cha chaan teng - Name, Cha chaan teng - Menus, Cha chaan teng - Table manners, Cha chaan teng - Set meals, Cha chaan teng - Variations, Cha chaan teng - Trivia

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The cha chaan teng provides tea (usually weak tea) contained in brown plastic cups, called "clear tea" (清茶 Cantonese Jyutping: cing1 caa4), to customers as soon as they are seated, although many patrons use the tea to wash their eating tool instead of drinking it. Thus the name "tea restaurant" serves to distinguish itself from the western restaurant that provides water to customers instead of tea. The "tea" in the name of tea restaurant, however, refers to the inexpensive black tea, not the traditional Chine ...

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Other kinds of local restaurant related to cha chaan tengs in Hong Kong include the 餐室 (Cantonese: chaan sud, lit. meal chamber), the 冰室 (Cantonese: bing sud, lit. ice chamber), and the 冰廳 (Cantonese: bing teng , lit. ice dining room), which provide lighter types, and a less variety, of food than the cha chaan teng does. In the old days, these eateries only sold different types of "ice", sandwich and pasta but no rice plates. However, some of the today's restau ...

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The cha chaan teng provides tea (usually weak tea) contained in brown plastic cups, called 清茶 (Cantonese Jyutping: cing1 caa4) , to customers as soon as they are seated, although many patrons use the tea to wash their eating tool instead of drinking it. Thus the name "tea restaurant" serves to distinguish itself from the western restaurant that provides water to customers instead of tea. The "tea" in the name of tea restaurant, however, refers to the inexpensive black tea, not the traditional Chinese tea as s ...

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Cha chaan teng, Cha chaan teng - Name, Cha chaan teng - Menus, Cha chaan teng - Table manners, Cha chaan teng - Set meals, Cha chaan teng - Variations, Cha chaan teng - Trivia

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Customers usually select their seats freely in a cha chaan teng, but in a crowded restaurant they have to share table with strangers. During peak hours, waiters in a cha chan teng do help seat their customers, "packing" as many eaters in the restaurant as possible. This practice of sharing table is called 搭檯 (Cantonese Yale: dap tói, Jyutping: daap3 toi2) in Cantonese. For example, they will make two groups of three customers seated at a six-seat table, to avoid having a pair of customers sitting with a group of three people and one seat left vacant. Sometimes already-sea ...

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Customers usually select their seats freely in a cha chaan teng, but in a crowded restaurant they have to share table with strangers. During peak hours, waiters in a cha chan teng do help seat their customers, "packing" as many eaters in the restaurant as possible. This practice of sharing table is called dap toi (搭檯; Yale: dap tói, Jyutping: daap3 toi2) in Cantonese. For example, they will make two groups of three customers seated at a six-seat table, to avoid having a pair of customers sitting with a group of three people and one seat left vacant. Sometimes already-sea ...

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An important part of Hong Kong culture, the cha chaan teng has been the scene of many local movies and TV dramas, such as the popular sitcom Virtues of Harmony (《皆大歡喜》). The TVB-made soap opera tells the story of a family who runs a cha chaan teng, usually boasting the egg tart and "silk-stocking milk tea" produced by them. Stephen Chow also played a cha chaan teng waiter in the 1998-comedy Lucky Guy (《行運一條龍》). Some beverage producers use the words cha chaan teng to name their products, such as "cha chaan teng ...

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A feature of cha-chan-teng is that there are a lot of set meals. In the morning there are various breakfast sets, during lunch lunch sets, in the afternoon tea sets, and in the evening dinner sets. Each lunch or dinner set usually includes a soup and a drink (usually an additional HK$2 is charged for cold drinks, which some people regard as an unfair practice). Other sets include "nutritious set" (which usually includes a bottle of milk), "light set", "constant set" (which is provided all day long and is not subjected to changes, thu ...

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Other kinds of local restaurant related to cha chaan tengs in Hong Kong include the chaan sud (餐室 lit. meal chamber), the bing sud (冰室 lit. ice chamber), and the bing teng (冰廳 lit. ice dining room), which provide lighter types, and a less variety, of food than the cha chaan teng does. For example, a bowl of wonton noodle cannot be tasted in genuine chaan suds or bing suds, or bing tengs. Moreover, most of them sell different types of "ice", sandwi ...

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There are local variations in the basic borscht recipe: In Russian cuisine, it always includes beets, meat, and cabbage and optionally potatoes. In Ukrainian, Belarusian and Polish cuisine, the beets are standard, while potatoes and cabbage are both optional. It is usually served with little bread buns and garlic. In Romanian cuisine, it is any sour soup prepared with fermented wheat bran (which is also called borsch). In Hong Kong-style western cuisine, it includes tomatoes instead of beets, and also beef, cabbage, potatoes, and carrots. In Mennonite cuisine, borscht j ...

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Hong Kong-style milk tea originates from British colonial rule over Hong Kong. The British practice of afternoon tea became popularized in Hong Kong, as did the practice of sweetening the tea. In traditional Chinese beverages, milk is rarely if ever consumed with tea, and tea is typically unsweetened. Hong Kong-style milk tea is made of a mix of several types of black tea (the proportion of which is usually a "commercial secret" for those famous milk tea sellers), evaporated milk, and sugar, the last of which is added by the customers ...

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Hong Kong-style milk tea originates from British colonial rule over Hong Kong. The British practice of afternoon tea became popularized in Hong Kong, as did the practice of sweetening the tea. In traditional Chinese beverages, milk is rarely if ever consumed with tea, and tea is typically unsweetened. Hong Kong-style milk tea is made of a mix of several types of black tea (the proportion of which is usually a "commercial secret" for those famous milk tea sellers), evaporated milk, and sugar, the last of which is added by the customers ...

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Milk tea is part of the daily life of many Hong Kongers. Unlike the situation in Britain where tea drinking was historically associated with the upper class, milk tea in Hong Kong is popular among the masses. Milk tea is typically served as part of afternoon tea, but is served at breakfast or dinner as well. The beverage enjoys nearly the same ubiquitous status that coffee holds in western countries. While not offered by more traditional Cantonese restaurants or dim sum teahouses, milk tea is standard fare in Hong Kong-style western r ...

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Most people would say that the first criteria of a good cup of milk tea is its "smoothness". To be more precise, a satisfying cup of milk tea is expected to be creamy and, to use the jargon of wine-tasting, full-bodied. One of the indicators of a nice cup of milk tea (also of bubble tea) is the appearance of "掛杯" (Cantonese pronunciation: gwa būi ?, gwa3 bui1 ?; lit. hanging cup): if the concentration of butterfat in the evaporated milk used is high enough, some white substance can be seen "hanging" o ...

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Today the cold milk tea is usually prepared with ice cubes. However, in the old days, when machines for producing ice cubes were not popular, the cold milk tea was made by filling the hot milk tea into a glass bottle and then cooling it in a refrigerator. Sometimes the milk tea were filled in Vitasoy or Coca-Cola bottles, and were sold by bottle. Today this type of "bottle milk tea" is rare in Hong Kong. In the case of milk tea with ice cubes, the melting ice will dilute the content, thus affecting the taste of the drink; therefore, m ...

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Today the cold milk tea is usually prepared with ice cubes. However, in the old days, when machines for producing ice cubes were not popular, the cold milk tea was made by filling the hot milk tea into a glass bottle and then cooling it in a refrigerator. Sometimes the milk tea were filled in Vitasoy or Coca-Cola bottles, and were sold by bottle. Today this type of "bottle milk tea" is rare in Hong Kong. In the case of milk tea with ice cubes, the melting ice will dilute the content, thus affecting the taste of the drink; therefore, m ...

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Hong Kong-style milk tea, Hong Kong-style milk tea - History, Hong Kong-style milk tea - Culture, Hong Kong-style milk tea - Cold milk tea, Hong Kong-style milk tea - Criteria, Hong Kong-style milk tea - Cha Chow

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Milk tea is part of the daily life of many Hong Kongers. Unlike the situation in Britain where tea drinking was historically associated with the upper class, milk tea in Hong Kong is popular among the masses. Milk tea is typically served as part of afternoon tea, but is served at breakfast or dinner as well. The beverage enjoys nearly the same ubiquitous status that coffee holds in western countries. While not offered by more traditional Cantonese resturants or dim sum teahouses, milk tea is standard fare in Hong_Kong-style western re ...

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Hong Kong-style milk tea, Hong Kong-style milk tea - History, Hong Kong-style milk tea - Culture, Hong Kong-style milk tea - Cold milk tea, Hong Kong-style milk tea - Criteria, Hong Kong-style milk tea - Cha Chow

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Most people would say that the first criteria of a good cup of milk tea is its "smoothness". To be more precise, a satisfying cup of milk tea is expected to be creamy and, to use the jargon of wine-tasting, full-bodied. One of the indicators of a nice cup of milk tea (also of bubble tea) is the appearance of "掛杯" (Cantonese pronunciation: gwa3 bui1 ?, lit. hanging cup): if the concentration of butterfat in the evaporated milk used is high enough, some white substance can be seen "hanging" on the internal surface of the cup, after a portion of the drink has been drunk. A sufficient concentratio ...

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Hong Kong-style milk tea, Hong Kong-style milk tea - History, Hong Kong-style milk tea - Culture, Hong Kong-style milk tea - Cold milk tea, Hong Kong-style milk tea - Criteria, Hong Kong-style milk tea - Cha Chow

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