5 authentic local food for travelers to keep warm in Hong Kong

Hong Kong is very cold in this winter.

For Hong Kong Observatory’s forecast and explanation, please browse Frank’s old post.

Although Hong Kong’s very cold weather won’t last for too long, travelers may still meet this special local Hong Kong experience during the stay in Hong Kong.

Frank the tour guide is going to recommend authentic local delicacies for travelers to keep warm in this post…

 

Hong Kong local food for travelers to keep warm
Hot congee for breakfast
Clay pot steamed rice or baked rice for lunch
Hotpot for dinner
Sweet dumplings for dessert

 

If travelers want to keep warm during sightseeing in Hong Kong, Travelers can take Frank the tour guide’s all-weather private car tour service…

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Jay Cassidy (Toursbylocals) from Australia

16 Dec 2013

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Frank’s full day private car tour and night private car tour include hot and delicious local meals for travelers to keep warm and get the first hand local experience.

Hot congee for breakfast

To local Chinese people in Hong Kong, congee, which is a kind of thick soup made with rice, is not just for sick people.

 

It is actually a very common and popular food, especially for the cold morning in the wintertime.

Just enjoy a bowl of hot plain rice congee and one fried bread stick can make the travelers feel very warm.

If you are a big eater, you may have the “boat congee”, which has meat slice, cuttlefish, peanuts, fried pig skin, beef etc.

You may order extra fried noodle, steamed rice rolls and steamed sponge cake.

 

This breakfast should make you feel very full and very warm.

Clay pot steamed rice or baked rice for lunch

There are two types of hot rice for travelers to choose during lunch time in Hong Kong.

In the traditional dim sum restaurants, besides the normal dumplings and buns, travelers can have the steamed rice in clay pot, with chicken + mushroom, pork ribs + chicken legs, pork pie + salted fish, preserved meat etc.

 

The clay pot can effectively lock the flavor of food ingredients in the pot and keep the heat by trapping the water vapor.

Travelers may add some soy sauce to the clay pot rice to enhance the flavor.

Travelers may also have the localized Western baked rice with pork chop, seafood, beef etc. at the local fast food shops.

 

The thin and dry surface locks the heat and covers the juicy ingredients with thick sauce.

 

The traditional clay pot steamed rice and localized Western baked rice can give enough heat for travelers against the cold weather in the afternoon.

Hotpot for dinner

After sunset, temperature continues to drop.

That is the best time to enjoy the hotpot.

 

Travelers can get the warmth from the cassette cooker and the boiling soup.

After enjoying the cooked beef, vegetables, seafood, noodle, travelers can get enough energy for the cold night.

 

Enjoying hotpot can be a happy family reunion dinner at home or at restaurants.

There are mini personal hotpots at the local fast food shops for the single, lonely, poor guys, like Frank the tour guide.

Sweet dumplings for dessert

After the big hotpot, travelers can have the dumplings as dessert.

Actually the round glutinous rice dumplings with sweet peanut paste, black sesame paste or red bean paste are not the most important things.

 

The most important thing is the hot ginger soup for cooking the dumplings.

Chinese believe that the hot ginger soup can drive away the cold in travelers’ body and help the travelers to keep warm.

 

With a warm body, it is easy for travelers to sleep better in the freezing night.

Clients can take Frank’s all-weather private car tour with hot and delicious local meals

Quite a lot of travelers underestimate the wintertime of Hong Kong.

Actually the short cold snap can make the sub-tropical Hong Kong to have the freezing temperature.

Travelers can take Frank the tour guide’s all-weather Hong Kong private car tour to go sightseeing.

Besides offering the easy point to point transfer between different sightseeing points to clients, the comfortable private car can be clients’ cold shelter.

Frank’s full day private car tour and night private car tour even include the hot and tasty local meals for clients.

 

Frank hopes he can serve you in Hong Kong under the warm and good weather soon.

For further questions, please contact Frank