Hong Kong-style Western cuisine

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Hong Kong-style Western cuisine
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Hong Kong-style Western cuisine is a cuisine of Hong Kong. It is a style of American and European cooking served by some restaurants in Hong Kong as well as places where many Hong Kong residents immigrated to. This is the opposite of American Chinese cuisine, a Chinese cuisine geared towards Westerners; rather it is a western cuisine geared toward the Chinese population in Hong Kong as well as overseas Chineses in other countries.

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Traditional Hong Kong-style Western cuisine

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Restaurants serving traditional Hong Kong-style Western cuisine are mainly run by overseas Chinese or their descendants and cater to the taste of mid 20th-century Chinese American, as well as Chinese-North Americans born in the mid-20th century.

Generally, the meal will consist of:

The traditional Hong Kong-style Western cuisine (Western meal) will have other beverages available, such as Ovaltine or Horlicks, brands of malted beverages. The restaurant may serve American Chinese cuisine as well.

These restaurants represent some earliest efforts into fusion cuisine; some became famous by using soy sauce when preparing Western dishes.

Modern Hong Kong-style Western cuisine

Restaurants serving modern Hong Kong-style western cuisine are mainly run by recent Chinese immigrants and cater to the taste of current Hong Kong residents or late 20th-century immigrant Chinese North-Americans, as well as Chinese North-Americans born in the late-20th century.

Generally, the meal will consist of:

  • a cup of a Western soup, typically various types of cream-based soup (typically cream of corn due to it being cheaper than other cream soups) or Borscht (though tomato based rather than beet based),
  • diner's choice of coffee or Hong Kong milk tea (a very strong tea lightened with evaporated milk)
  • a Western entree, such as beef stroganoff, mixed grill, oxtail stew or a pork chop, served with
  • diner's choice of steamed white rice, spaghetti (without sauce), French fries or instant noodles, and
  • dessert, consisting of tong shui (sweet soup containing variously red bean, tiny tapioca balls, and/or taro), or gelatin-based dessert such as Mango pudding.

The modern Hong Kong-style western restaurant will sometimes serve a long list of modern beverages such as tapioca pearl drinks, milk shakes, or Coca Cola with ginger. The restaurant may or may not serve dishes similar to those in American Chinese cuisine as well.

Restaurants

A list of restaurants in Hong Kong that serves Hong Kong-style Western cuisine:

See also


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