Hong Kong Stories - Tastes of Home

Hong Kong Stories - Tastes of Home

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Hong Kong Stories - Tastes of Home episodes

  • The Scent of My Memory
    Let us mix alcohol with familiar smells and seize our exclusive memory.
    Kit and Joseph created a local craft gin capturing various scents representing Hong Kong in it. Scents like the floral scent of white jade orchid, the scent of tangerine from dri...
    22 min
  • A Wish Fulfilled
    A bowl of ordinary cart noodles is not only an inheritance of craftsmanship. It also a dream come true for Chris’ parents.
    Cart noodles were first sold from push carts by illegal itinerant cooked food hawkers years ago, and the grassroots were their ...
    22 min
  • My Journey with Red Bean Soup
    Probably no one can be sure who invented sweet soups, but most people know what sweet soups taste like.
    “Sweet soup” is a dessert and hence sweet in taste. Red bean soup is one of the most frequently consumed sweet soup.
    Hong Kong people generally h...
    22 min
  • Russian Red - Borscht
    Borscht, the classic Russian soup, marks the transformation of the Hong Kong-style western cuisine. Under different roles, it has been accompanying Hong Kong people to grow from the 40’s to the present.
    Yvonne’s grandfather was the owner of a very fa...
    22 min
  • The Wonton Noodle Dream
    Wonton noodles took root in Hong Kong after being cultivated from Guangzhou and is subsequently developed into shrimp wonton noodles, becoming a local signature dish that almost everyone in Hong Kong has tasted it. Being full of memories of different p...
    22 min
  • A Field of Lotus in my Heart
    Hong Kong might be the place where you can find the most types of mooncakes. There will be new types of mooncakes launched every year. We will not find it bewildering to see ice cream, durian or even fried chicken being put into mooncakes. No matter...
    22 min
  • Hong Burger
    Hong Kong is a metropolis with rich cultural vibrancy. A lot of Western food can be found in Hong Kong, and hamburger is one of them. However, since the food ingredients found in Hong Kong and the taste of Hong Kong people differ from those of the We...
    22 min
  • The Evolution of Egg Waffles
    When talking about classic local snacks in Hong Kong, would you choose eggette (egg waffle) as your favourite?
    As a traditional snack in Hong Kong, eggette experienced various changes in the past few decades, showing its flexibility just like Hong Ko...
    22 min
  • My Signature Pot
    A pot of clay-pot rice made a young man who had suffered career setback rebound and start all over again.
    Ray spent his childhood in his family’s Hong Kong-style café. With a lively and active character, Ray decided to leave home upon graduating fro...
    22 min

About Hong Kong Stories - Tastes of Home

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Taste brought up feelings and memories, where the stories would be unfolded. This series told the stories of Hong Kong people through local food. The kind of food is common, yet special, a specialty…