The most visitors in Hong Kong knows these small open air kitchens or food stalls you meet on the journey through the streets of Hong Kong. Known as the Dai Pai Dongs are they the equivalent of the German "Schnell imbiss", the Danish "Pølse vogn" or "Grill bar", the English "Borger wan" or "Fish and chips".
These kitchens offers their cheap daily food to pedestrians and the variaty in their sortiment is quite big. Some of them has even foldable tables and chairs, but the mojority is just charaterized by the untidy atmosphere and then the distinctiv smell of fish sauce, and those who knows that, will know what I'm talking about, as you can smell it from a far distance, and once smelled, never forgotten as it smells like something you don't bring in connection with something to eat, but this sauce in fact add a delicious taste to the dishes. At the dai pai dongs you get offered nearly everything the Chinese people eats, and that is quite a lot and many visitors walk away with a certain look in their face.
Some of the eating places in the street has more a similarity with a restaurants, as they have windows and the food you buy is handed out to you in small plastic bowls and styrofoam containers.
Some of the very famous Hong Kong dishes from street vendors is the honey roasted Duck and pork, or the very delicious tasting BBQ pork. And you wont believed it, but these two cantonese specialities is being eaten cold, with boiled white rice and in garlic steamed Pak Choi (green vegestables). Enjoy your lunch>
No comments:
Post a Comment