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Chinese food culture

Diners pack a Mong Kok restaurant for lunch over the Lunar New Year holiday. Photo: Eugene Lee

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How beef satay noodles, comfort food with Southeast Asian roots, became a Hong Kong fave

Satay beef noodles served at a cafe in Pok Fu Lam. A popular breakfast dish in Hong Kong that combines Chinese and Southeast Asian cuisines, it was introduced to the city in the 1950s by migrants from Chaozhou, southern China. Photo: Jonathan Wong

Beef satay skewers. Hong Kong beef satay noodles can be traced to sate dishes of Southeast Asia. Photo: Shutterstock

Bing Kee, in Hong Kong’s Tai Hang neighbourhood, is one of the few surviving “cha dong” in the city. Photo: Edmond So

Beef satay noodles, a comfort food made popular by Hong Kong tea stalls, has influences from Southeast Asia to Guangdong, China. A YouTuber tells us how to cook them.


The bakers keeping traditional mooncake making alive in Hong Kong for Mid-Autumn Festival

Vivian Leung prepares to bake mooncakes made the traditional way using ingredients sourced in Hong Kong for charity Locofarms. Photo: Locofarms

KC Koo is the owner of Hong Kong food company Fancook. He sells a line of mooncakes containing salted egg yolk with yellow lotus paste. Photo: SCMP

The Michelin-star Man Ho Chinese Restaurant in Hong Kong sells freshly baked mooncakes. Photo: Man Ho Chinese Restaurant

A salted egg yolk and yellow lotus paste mooncake. Photo: Fan Cook

Vivian Leung making mooncakes. Locofarms produced 250 boxes of mooncakes for this year’s Mid-Autumn Festival. Photo: Locofarms

A treat families once took a year to pay for, mooncakes of every flavour are ubiquitous now. Some are still made fresh the old-fashioned way.


5 popular spices used in Chinese cooking, why people love them, and their health benefits

Star anise, or illicium verum, is a popular spice in Chinese home cooking for both its taste and health benefits. Photo: Shutterstock

Star anise, or illicium verum, is one of many spices popular in Chinese home cooking for both its taste and health benefits. Photo: Shutterstock

Sand ginger chicken casserole. Photo: Shutterstock

Rolls of Chinese cassia. Photo: Shutterstock

Fresh turmeric roots. Photo: Shutterstock

Five-spice powder. Photo: Shutterstock

Sand ginger, Chinese cassia, star anise, turmeric and five-spice powder have been used for their taste and health benefits for centuries.


Take a bite out of history with our exclusive series on the delicious ingredients, dishes and techniques behind the unique tastes of Hong Kong.


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Chinese food culture

Take a bite out of history with our exclusive series on the delicious ingredients, dishes and techniques behind the unique tastes of Hong Kong.

Hong Kong beef satay noodles’ origins, and how to make them at home

Beef satay noodles, a comfort food made popular by Hong Kong tea stalls, has influences from Southeast Asia to Guangdong, China. A YouTuber tells us how to cook them.

Bakers keep traditional mooncake making alive in Hong Kong

A treat families once took a year to pay for, mooncakes of every flavour are ubiquitous now. Some are still made fresh the old-fashioned way.

5 popular spices used in Chinese cooking and why people love them

Sand ginger, Chinese cassia, star anise, turmeric and five-spice powder have been used for their taste and health benefits for centuries.