Icy drinks? Cha Chaan Tang Drinks!

Hong Kong drinking culture has been influenced a lot from Taiwan from a long time ago.They are all perfect match for street food and also for Hong Kong food. You may also notice that Hongkongers like to drink cold drinks most of the time because summers are long and the humidity is high, so a glass of cold drink can smooth you from the heat

Drinks you need to know:

No. 1 HK Style Lemon Tea

This is Hong Kong most representative drinks, the ingredients are simple: black tea, lemon slices, sugar and ice cubes. But it required skills also, as the tea can become bitter easily if you cannot handle it well. 3 slices of lemon are our ritual.

As people in HK enjoy the drink so much, so they are also available in bottle, can and box.

No. 2 HK style milk tea

The milk tea in Hong Kong taste pretty different with the British one, we use serval black tea and also evaporated milk, and milk tea is an important part of our tea culture. This required higher skills to make it smooth with a nice aroma, and the mixture of tea is always the secrete of the shops. We also have "silk stocking milk tea" which means extremely smooth tea, it actually uses sackcloth bag to filter and tea leaves and makes it smooth.

No. 3  Red Bean Icy

This drink is children's all time favourite! It is made of cooked red bean, evaporated milk or coconut milk and ice, sometimes serve with vanilla ice cream on the top. It is a nice drink served with deep fried food in tea time, such as deep dried chicken wings. Children enjoy it most as parents in HK will not give milk tea or lemon tea to childen, since its not good for their health. So they will either get a glass of water or a glass of red bean icy!

Food Paradise - Street Food

Hong Kong is a famous place for food and shopping paradise, as there are lots of cuisines you can choose from.

For the following 5 blogs, I will share about different types of food and recommend restaurants for you to visit!

Let's started with the local food, street food:

No. 1 Curry Fish ball & Siu Mai  $8-20/10 pieces

Both are very traditional snacks for Hongkongers and they are made of fish and flour. Both are springy in texture and serve on a bamboo stick. They usually serve with curry sauce or soy sauce with chili sauce, the chili sauce is a must if you are a spicy lover!
Beware that the sauce will split on your clothes!

UK: Oaka
Address: 32 Mong Kok Road, Mong Kok



No2. Egg Waffles $12-50

Also known as bubble wrap in the UK, it is actually made of egg and flour, people enjoy its texture that's crispy outside and soft inside. HK people believe that grilling with the charcoal fired stone oven is the best choice, but only a few shops are doing that now, as it required more space and relatively dangerous, so its made with electronic pan for most of the time. The traditional flavor is just egg, but some shops also offer chocolate, cheese, matcha and taro taste! There are more variations now, including adding ice cream or various of toppings, becoming the bubble wrap.


No.3 Rice Noodle Roll - Cheung fan $7

Rice noodles roll is made of steamed sheets of rice noodles, then roll it, and cut into pieces. It will serve with soy sauce, and you can choose whether to add the peanut butter, sweet sauce and sesame oil, sesame seed, etc. It is chewy, cheap and keeps you warm and full!