Char Siu (Cantonese BBQ Pork) is a signature dish of Hong Kong; we have verified places to eat it in Hong Kong. Start with where to eat Char Siu (Cantonese BBQ Pork) in Hong Kong.
Char Siu (Cantonese BBQ Pork) · Hong Kong
Char siu is Cantonese barbecued pork: boneless shoulder marinated in hoisin, soy sauce, Chinese rose wine and five spice and glazed with maltose or honey, sliced over rice or baked into buns.
Char siu means fork roasted. It originated in Guangdong and is sold in Hong Kong's siu mei shops, which hang the meat in the window, and in Hong Kong it is the most eaten siu mei. Its red colour once came from red fermented bean curd and red yeast rice. In the 1950s many Cantonese roast meat chefs moved to Hong Kong and refined their char siu. Joy Hing's Roasted Meat on Hennessy Road, run by a Teochew family whose business dates to the late Qing dynasty, still roasts its pork in a pre war oven.
Where to eat in Hong Kong:
- Joy Hing Roasted Meat
- Tim Ho Wan
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