In Hong Kong, you are never more than a few metres away from a street stall, snack shop or local eatery. Eating is no exception in a city known for its efficiency – it’s a quintessentially Cantonese experience for your meal to be cooked, served and eaten within fifteen minutes. For where to grab a…
While the practice of sharing food feels deeply ingrained across Chinese culture, eating separately was actually the norm until the Song dynasty, because food was scarce and needed to be evenly distributed. Once the expansion of rice cultivation helped alleviate these issues, a cultural shift towards sharing food was set in motion – a ritual…
The Cantonese tradition of dim sum originated over 2000 years ago in the teahouses along the trade routes that connected Asia with the rest of the world: small bites to accompany tea choices that were designed to stimulate travellers’ appetites. Today, dim sum – or “yum cha” in Cantonese, which literally means to drink tea…