mexican seafood.

Having just eaten a lovely chinese noodle stir fry i thought it would be relevant to make my next post about the food in Hong Kong!

Hong Kong actually has quite a diverse selection of food available, sourcing inspiration from traditional Chinese, Cantonese, Japanese and Western world cuisine.

With Chinese ethnicity making up 98% of the resident population, Chinese cuisine is naturally served at home. Home ingredients are picked up from local grocery stores and independent produce shops, although supermarkets have become progressively more popular.

Hong Kong homes and kitchens tend to be small due to a high population density, and traditional Chinese cuisine often requires the freshest possible ingredients, so food shopping is undertaken frequently and in smaller quantities than is now usual in the West. Take-out and dining out is also very common, since people are often too busy to cook with an average 47-hour work week.

• Rice is predominantly the main staple for home meals certainly in southern areas of China like Hong Kong.
• Noodles are symbolic of long life and good health according to Chinese tradition and they come dry or fresh in many varieties often served in soups and fried as toppings.
• Tofu is another popular product often used as a meat or cheese substitute.
• Dim Sum is a Cantonese term for small snacks and is designed so that one person may taste a variety of different dishes.
• Some of these may include rice rolls, lotus leaf rice, turnip cakes, buns, shui jiao style dumplings, stir-fried green vegetables, congee porridge, soups, etc.
• Yum cha literally means ‘drink tea’ and many chinese drink their tea with snacks such as nuts, plums, dried fruit, small sweets, melon seeds, and waxberry.
• China was the earliest country to cultivate and drink tea.
• Traditional Chinese cuisine is also based on opposites, whereby hot balances cold, pickled balances fresh and spicy balances mild.
• In most dishes in Chinese cuisine, food is prepared in bite-sized pieces, ready for direct picking up and eating. In traditional Chinese cultures, chopsticks are used at the table.

After our noodles tonight we had some fortune cookies too!

this was my fortune for today.....

'follow your aim, self conciousness will show you how'