Hong Kong-style tea restaurant

Hong Kong-style tea dining rooms are one of the origins from Hong Kong‘s fast-food restaurant, which provided the fusion of Hong Kong characteristic and western-style dining. It is a popular and common place for people dining together. You can find these kinds of tea dining restaurants in Hong Kong everywhere. Their business hours are not regulated. They usually start from 6 o’clock in the early morning to mid-night or 1 o’clock morning. Restaurants that located in the busy and crowded areas would probably do all night long.

One of the most famous foods is the egg tart. The tarts consist of an outer pastry crust, filled with egg custard and baked. HK-style egg tarts have two main types of outer casings: shortcrust pastry which made with butter, and puff pastry which made with lard. Shortcrust pastsy is similar to western pie crust, and taste like cookie, while puff pastry is thicker and crispy. For my personal opinion, I like the shortcrust pastry more than the puff one. The best time to eat egg tarts is when it is freshly baked, loose and soft crust with hot and smooth egg custard tastes extraordinarily delicious.

Today egg tarts come in many variations within HK cuisine. Thses include egg white tarts, milk tarts, honey-egg tarts, ginger-flavoured egg tarts, chocolate tarts, and even bird’s nest tarts. However, most of the tea restaurant would only provide the two traditional egg tarts.


HK-style milk tea, often known as “silk stocking milk tea”, is a popular beverage originating from HK. It consists of black tea sweetened with evaporated milk. People will drink this beverage usually in breakfast, afternnon tea, and/or in the rest time of work. People use nylon net to make the milk tea. Since the nylon net looks similar with the silk stocking, thus it calls “silk stocking milk tea.” However, many people misunderstand that the “silk stocking milk tea” is really filter with the silk stocking.

The milk tea and egg tart always are best partner!