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Top Ten Must-Buy Hong Kong Specialties

Top ten must-buy Hong Kong specialties are Hong Kong-style wife cake, Hong Kong-style moon cake, Jenny Cookies, Chen Yi Zhai bird's nest cake, Hong Kong-style egg rolls, Hong Kong-style milk tea, egg仔, the king of the phoenix plums, cockerel bowls, shrimp paste shrimp paste, Tai O.

1, Hong Kong-style wife cake

Hong Kong-style wife cake, people customarily known as the Yuen Long wife cake, is Hong Kong's famous specialty cakes, but also Hong Kong's very long history of specialties. Hong Kong Style Wife Cake, also known as Dong Rong Cake, is a traditional pastry originated in Guangdong, and is most commonly found in Guangdong and Hong Kong, China.

2, Hong Kong-style moon cakes

Hong Kong-style moon cakes are one of the five major moon cakes in China, belonging to a kind of Cantonese moon cakes, in the many moon cake "schools" in China, to thin skin, fluffy, sweet, full of Hong Kong-style moon cakes are very popular, so the moon cakes have become the necessary accompaniment to travel in Hong Kong.

3, Jenny Cookies

Jenny Cookies is one of the must-have souvenirs when traveling to Hong Kong, and there are long lines every day. Packaged in a tin box with a teddy bear pattern, very cute, and every month will change the new box, very thoughtful.

4, Chen Yi Zhai bird's nest cake

Chen Yi Zhai bird's nest cake is Hong Kong's more authentic Hong Kong-style specialty confectionery, is a traditional snack made of bird's nest, bird's nest silk steamed through, melted, solidified into a cake.

5, Hong Kong-style egg roll

Hong Kong-style egg rolls is one of Hong Kong's traditional pastries, blended butter egg flour burnt seasoning, in a hot pan spread into a golden pancake, while hot hurry up the egg skin rolled up and placed for a short while, it became a crispy fluffy egg rolls.

6, Hong Kong-style milk tea

Tea is a unique Hong Kong drink, with its tea flavor heavy partial bitter, smooth and mellow flavor is characterized. The perfect Hong Kong-style milk tea, tea should be thick enough, milk should be thick enough, the entrance to the young smooth as silk, will not be a drink and diarrhea, but the extension of the fine honey, creamy texture, the thickness of the milk tea is mainly by the light milk and tea broth of the thickness of the decision, the light milk contains milk fat must be thick enough, milk tea in order to be on the surface of the condensation of a layer of milk brown milk coat, to become a hanging cup of milk tea.

7, Eggs

Eggs are unique to Hong Kong's traditional street food, is one of Hong Kong's authentic street food, with eggs, sugar, flour, evaporated milk and other caused by the juice, poured in the middle of the two special beehive-shaped iron molding, placed on the fire baked into.

8, Mafeng Plum King

Mafeng Plum King is Hong Kong's famous candied fruit, each plum is handmade by experienced fruit makers, the quality of which can not be overstated, and moderately sweet and sour.

9, rooster bowl

Rooster bowl is a kind of bowl with black-tailed rooster, banana and flower as the pattern. The rooster bowl is shallow, with a large mouth and a small bottom, and a rooster is depicted outside very casually in simple colors such as red, dark green, and black, and the rough craftsmanship transmits a special beauty.

10, Tai O shrimp paste shrimp paste

Tai O shrimp paste shrimp paste is Hong Kong's famous specialty seafood, Tai O fishermen will not be able to eat the small fish and shrimp with salt drying, fermentation made into shrimp paste to save.