Cantonese Food and Cuisine

By Rory Boland, About.com Guide

Forget General Tso’s chicken or sweet and sour pork with floating pineapple chunks, in Hong Kong you’ll find Cantonese restaurants that have been showered with Michelin stars and chefs with a hatful of accolades. Just like American food, a cuisine broad enough to support diners, steakhouses and pizza places, the selection of menus and restaurants in Hong Kong includes seafood restaurants, Dim Sum houses and caricatures for BBQ meats. What you won’t find is the soupy gravy sauces that seem to be slopped over any rice and meat combo at takeaways; Hong Kong food is in fact surprisingly subtle with a reliance on fresh ingredients and light seasoning and flavoring. Of course you don’t have to come to Hong Kong to enjoy real Cantonese cooking. There are full service Cantonese restaurants all over North America, Europe and Australia, often hidden away in Chinatowns and primarily catering to the Cantonese immigrant population and their desire for authentic dishes and flavors. The best most simple but effective indicator is a Chinese clientele or Chinese community notices on the walls or windows. In the pages that follow we look at some of the best food and dishes in Cantonese cuisine, just click on the numbers below.

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• Cantonese Food Guide
• What Is Cantonese Cuisine
• Dim Sum
• BBQ - Siu Mei
• Street Food
• Seafood dishes
• Feast Cuisine
• Dessert Houses

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