Source:
http://www.12hk.com/food/hk_food.shtml
Can also go here [
http://www.hongkongfoodguide.com/eng/index.shtml] for
exact location of restaurants/eateries. Can even filter by budget den the site search budget restaurants for you! Super useful website! :mellow3:
You must visit Hong Kong if you love Chinese food. Hong Kong culinary market is dominated by Cantonese food, one of the yummiest among all Chinese food. Cantonese food is world famous for its simple cooking method and fresh ingredients used. A seafood dinner is a must. Try a
steam live fish. It is a life-time experience. Nowhere else in the world people will cook fish in the same manner however so delicious. A dim sum lunch/breakfast is also a must. This has become the life style of Hong Kongers, Chinese and foreigners alike.
Chinese Food
When it comes to Chinese food, there certainly is a good variety to choose from - Szechuen (spicy), Beijing (e.g. Peking duck), Guangdong (plenty of that since Hong Kong is in Guangdong, most famous kind would be "dim sum"), Teochew / Swatow (e.g. marinated duck), Shanghai (spicy noodles, small dumplings), just to name a few kinds.
Egg tarts - you must try these. They are my favorite. Available at most bakeries (the cake shop at just about every MTR station usually has them in the morning), they smell great and taste great! In Cantonese, it is "daan tard". You can find them in dim sum restaurants also.
I heard from my fren that the bird nests' egg tarts are nice. Perhaps somebody can verify this? :mellow3: Roast pork - also a must! Available at Chinese fast food places and local restaurants. If you see cooked chickens and slices of cooked meat hanging in the window, you can probably find it there. You can get roast pork with rice for US$3 or so. Roast pork in Cantonese is "char siu".
Cha Siu Bao - roast pork buns... yum, yum! There are two kinds, steamed and baked. The baked ones are available in the morning at all the little cake shops in the MTR stations.
The steamed ones are available at many Chinese restaurants that sell "dim sum" (i.e. snacks) during morning and lunch hours.
Exotic foods - you should try these and then tell your friends about it!
Stinky tofu - fermented tofu deep-fried. The smell is horrendous. They can be found in some Shanghaiese restaurants, I think.
Jelly fish - known as "hoi jit" in Chinese restaurants
Thousand-year egg - eggs black inside, but not really that old! [more]
Pork brains - kind of like tofu, with slightly more texture and body
Frog - often cooked together with rice, tastes and feels like chicken
Snake - a delicacy, very rich, not recommended in large amount unless you know what you are doing. Also tastes and feels like chicken (what does not?)
Ox whip - you can guess what this is! (hint: it is in the same category as mountain oysters) (Does not taste like chicken!)
Chicken "forget" - you might call them molehill oysters! They don't taste like chicken either!
Duck's feet / Chicken feet - quite common and you can always find them in dim-sum restaurants. more...
Intestines and Inerds - prepared in many different ways, they come from chickens, geese, pork, beef; you name it, they have it.
Dog - in Hong Kong, they usually come hot. There is no specific restaurant that sell them, but you can find the raw material in any bigger supermarkets, canned or refrigerated. Now of course I am talking about hotdogs, since dog eating had been made illegal years ago! So if you want to eat man's best friend, you will have to go to Korea!
Please feel free to add on to make this thread more useful to all! I haven been to HK yet so I'm more like doing some research here...:biggrin4: 
Must Try Food in Hong Kong! 
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