Teochew cuisine is my hometown cuisine and my “chicken soup” cuisine. Whenever I am weary and tired, I would seek solace in Teochew food. And Hong Kong has some of the best Teochew restaurant in the world.
Tag: Teochew
Chilled Grey Mullet 冻乌头
This dish is usually served chilled in the restaurant and Hong Kong foodies named it “冻乌头“。 If you are concerned about the fish being chilled, you can just served it hot out of the steamer. The only difference is the collagen present in the scales of the fish may make it more difficult to scrap…
Ah Orh @ Jln Bukit Merah
One of the stewards of Teochew food in Singapore, Ah Orh was famous for the expensive cars that used to park here in the evenings for their supper services. These were automobiles owned by Teochew towkays that gathered often for their late night fixes.
Kuehs and Snacks 老婶阿嬷潮州粿 @ ABC Brickworks
Traditional eats are fading away as each generations either retire or moved on. This Teochew Kueh has been a favorite of my family since I can remember. Of course, my mother’s kuehs were still the best. But when you could not get them, these will still do.
Huat Kee Teochew Restaurant @ RELC
There’s a revival of Teochew restaurants in Singapore in recent years, thanks to the leaders and clansmen in the Teochew community promoting our heritage and culture in recent years. However, many of these were not authentic, rather they hired Cantonese chefs that can fire up a few Teochew dishes but lack the fundamentals in true…
Lunch at Pak Loh Chiu Chow Restaurant 百樂潮州酒家
15 May, 2014 Pak Loh Chiu Chow Restaurant 百樂潮州酒家 Airport restaurants are usually quick meals and taste quite bad. Hong Kong airports have the rare exception to provide excellent food since the Kai Tak days. Starting from Prince restaurant 太子樓 that provided excellent dimsum to Hereford steakhouse (closed), I always looked forward to a meal…
Teochew Cuisine @ ChuiHuayLim
ChuiHuayLim 醉花林 was a private Teochew club that made up businessman with two things in common – firstly, their ancestry is from Teochew (Chiuchow if you are from Hong Kong), which is an area in Guangdong province of China, and secondly, they are all very rich. Until recently, this über-exclusive gathering place was not open…
Ah Orh Teochew Seafood
TV is now showing how our forefathers came to Singapore to find a new beginning. Most of these immigrants from China were from Canton and Fujian, and with them you get the Hakka, Hokkien, Cantonese, Hockchew, Hainan cuisines. And for my family, the cuisine is Teochew. Once in a while we will go the remaining…
Set Meal @ Swatow Restaurant
Another set menu – but this one is really value for money at $288+++ for 5 pax. The shark’s fin soup is a whole claypot full of fin and delicious soup. it was supposed to be roast pig with lobster salad starter but they burnt our pig, so we got a mixed platter instead. Quality…
