| Dish |
Source Recipe |
| Sweet & Sour Hong Kong Salad |
If you follow the recipe, you would end up making a lot of salad (probably enough to serve 8 people). I went with about half of the amount of the ingredients and only 1.5 tbsp of sugar instead of half of 1/3 of a cup (whatever that amounts to). Overall, this salad has the potential to become a hit, however it needs a few adjustments. I would cut the amount of sugar and oil to 1 tbsp and 2 tbsp, respectively, and use fresh mandarin oranges instead of canned. |
| Soy Sauce Fried Noodles |
I appreciate the kind of recipes like the one I tried for fried noodles. The dish is done in no time and is tasty too. The only sort of odd thing was that the noodles tasted differently from the Chinese noodles I’m used to. Perhaps there wasn’t enough sauce? |
| Hong Kong Sweet and Sour Pork |
Pretty much followed the recipe except I added fresh pineapple and eliminated cayenne peppers. |
| Cantonese Egg Tarts |
A very good recipe. I would recommend to adjust amount of sugar according to your taste. I noticed that I almost always add less sugar than recipes call for. I also noticed something else while cooking this particular dish. I hate making dough. Any dough that requires use of hands. And while I was hating my dough I started hating my husband for not comforting me at this sensitive for me moment. Only the time (15 min) and successfully cooked tarts helped me avoid a breakdown. 🙂 |
| Hong Kong Milk Tea |
I’m going to drink this tea everyday! But since I’m on a diet I’m going to eliminate sugar and sweetened, condensed milk from the recipe (ehhh… maybe just a teaspoon of condensed milk). Yummy. |
 Hong Kong Salad |
 Fried Noodles |
 Sweet & Sour Pork |
 Egg Tart with Sweet Milk Tea |
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| I noticed that all of Hong Kong dishes that I cooked called for sugar. I wonder if this is sort of a coincidence in my choice of recipes or something that distinguishes Hong Kong (Cantonese? Chinese?) cuisine.Anyway, my guys ate everything. Nothing was left except for a few egg tarts that I decided to save for next day. This morning I looked in the fridge and found only 2 tarts left out of 5 (my husband made a night raid on the fridge). I love my husband but I hope he’s feeling guilty for what he’s done! Update: Confirmed, he’s feeling guilty. |
