Hong Kong Must-Try Foods

In a city brimming with culinary options, it can be hard to know where to start — but the Cantonese classic dim sum is always a safe bet. For a contemporary take on the bamboo baskets, seek out restaurants serving dishes like black truffle prawn dumplings and roasted Iberico pork with spring onion rice rolls. Alternatively, you could try baked crab meat pie with wild mushrooms or steamed lobster dumplings. Traditional dishes include siu mai (pork dumplings), char siu bao (barbecued pork buns) and steamed buns with lotus seed paste.

If you want to go local, you can pull up a stool at a dai pai dong, or open-air eatery, where you can try dishes like pork knuckle noodles, macaroni and tomato soup, or ham, egg, and luncheon meat noodles.

At the city’s street food stalls – you’ll find them in Causeway Bay and Mong Kok, among other locations – the most popular items are skewers of curried fish balls, braised beef offal, and sweet egg waffles, a deliciously more-ish and perennially popular street food snack that’s soft on the inside and crunchy on the outside.