Saving Hong Kong’s ‘endangered’ dim sum

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Hong Kong is known as one of the best places in the world to enjoy dim sum, but a small selection of the bite-sized delicacies has been vanishing from menus and dining tables. Post reporter Lisa Cam visited veteran chefs to learn the history of some old-school dim sum dishes. She tucks into the story of how they ended up on the “endangered” menu and why a younger generation of restaurateurs hopes to save them.
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@bensumw 7 месяцев назад

6:37 You can see just how proud the dim sum chef on the right is, his face is literally beaming with pride at the opportunity to have worked with his seniors and mentors over the decades.

@pawacoteng 6 месяцев назад

Or happy is on TV (or youtube)

@schadenfreude6274 6 месяцев назад

Don't be so gullible. He is probably paid well to appear on RU-vid. :)

@jamesg90 7 месяцев назад

The efforts these restaurateurs go to, to preserve and pass on these dishes is admirable to say the least. It's unfortunate that so many people expect dim sum to be cheap when it's so labor intensive.

@minxili3317 7 месяцев назад

If Man Yuen is smart they could advertise to foreigners and on social media saying they sell endangered dim sum to get tourists interested in his store. Then they would come and check out what it is. Plus they can give small descriptions and a little history lesson on why these dim sum are endangered. It can be both a restaurant and a museum lol This can even get young locals interested as well.

@ephraimshambane2713 7 месяцев назад

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@TsLeng 7 месяцев назад

@@minxili3317tourists? 😂😂😂 What kind of tourists?

@minxili3317 7 месяцев назад

@@TsLeng The whole world has tourists. Are you living in a cave?

@TsLeng 7 месяцев назад

@@minxili3317 pretty sure the locals and mainlanders can support the business. What is so endangered about premium authentic food? Foreigners? The ones that take a look at chicken feet and run away?

@ToniaV 7 месяцев назад

I always admire people who work in a restaurant. Their dedication to their job is really touching. Bet their food is the best 😊

@dimsumyen4034 7 месяцев назад

Lived abroad for over 25 years. Finally resettled back in HK and have been on a yum cha journey trying to find the kind of old style dimsum I grew up with … have no luck with the real 灌湯餃though. Thanks to your video, now I know where to find them. Watching the chefs making these endangered dimsum brings back so many fond memories from my childhood. I will definitely go try out 鳳城 and 文苑 this week. As a HongKonger, I truly appreciate our beautiful (and delicious) tradition and am grateful to these dedicated chefs. 😋 ❤

@rachellaw6275 6 месяцев назад

you can find 灌湯餃 in higher end dim sum places, try Lei Garden or Maxim Palace. In Singapore, the chef at Shangri-La (Shang Palace, michelin award restaurant) also makes 灌湯餃 as well as other rarer items like dried tangerine and salted clam paste. TBH I'll rather have a modern 灌湯餃 in soup, than a poorly made traditional one (this is a problem in Canada where a lot of HK chefs immigrated but not all of them have the same skills!)

@bgunion 7 месяцев назад

This is such an insightful video and nostalgic growing up… I appreciate the chefs much more!

@lmnoplmnop 7 месяцев назад

Some of these really bring back memories and I am not even that old.... it's sad to see so many classics disappear over the past 3 years

@crazymatsuki 7 месяцев назад

I love their passion for these dishes.

@juanritanjaya6254 7 месяцев назад

Awesome video about food and its history and connection to people memories. I’ll be sure to visit these places next time I’m in Hong Kong

@dialindsey 7 месяцев назад

I love the dim sum master's explanation. Growing up, I've seen some of these OG items. I love the call out on "chemical" ingredients as short cut compared to the OG fermented/technic focused/time consuming sensitive items. So many don't know the difference. I love traditional Dim Sum!

@Irenechangbritt 7 месяцев назад

Love this! I had forgotten about those soup dumplings that we used to eat in Toronto in the 1970’s. And malaigo! Thanks for the walk down memory lane.

@Pd69bq 7 месяцев назад

imo yum cha restaurants and dai pai dongs are more endangered than giant pandas and deserve more attention and financial support from the government. they are places where people can come together to enjoy delicious food and socialize with friends and family and super important in our traditional culture that deserve to be preserved. I really really hope that the government can change their mind and take steps to support these private businesses

@Tconomics 7 месяцев назад

Shout out to the host for the seasoned review of flavours, the chefs were delighted to.

@SkepticalChris 7 месяцев назад

Many of these dim sum dishes, especially Baked Sago Pudding, are well preserved in overseas Chinese communities founded by Hong Kongers, like in Vancouver, particularly Richmond BC, where there is a huge thriving Chinese community and these dishes are still prepared daily in huge quantities. In fact I had it just two weeks ago at a restaurant, and it was superbly prepared, with the top layer just caramelized perfectly to enhance the richness of the flavor and the red bean paste complimented it perfectly!

@clubjema 7 месяцев назад

I live in Vancouver too! Do you have any dim sum recommendations??

@ChairmanMo 7 месяцев назад

The reason why a lot of the older dim sum dishes are dying in HK is because the rents are way too high. Thus restaurants are being priced out of making certain dishes and have to cut cost ruthlessly.

@jeannechen7669 7 месяцев назад

I am from Vancouver and this is 100% true. I love the dim sum here!

@SundaysChild1966 7 месяцев назад

Ohhh same in Toronto and York Region. My fav is when the little cart comes around with the choices, as opposed to ordering off a menu.

@bryanh5728 7 месяцев назад

This is an important part of HK's Culture and heritage...Pls keep it going, esp for our future generations 🎉😊

@wonhome2711 7 месяцев назад

Great topic!

@deanweaver4469 7 месяцев назад

Thanks for sharing this. 🤠 Minneapolis, Minnesota USA👋

@alimfuzzy 7 месяцев назад

I still remember all you can eat yum cha for $15. They were the best.

@bobbymoss6160 7 месяцев назад

Where? I've heard that before.

@alimfuzzy 7 месяцев назад

@bobbymoss6160 In Sydney about 20 years ago. Silver spring.

@jaker3151 7 месяцев назад

Working in a kitchen with Hong Kong's heat and humidity is not an easy job.

@ichigobagus 5 месяцев назад

Yes..pls do more to help preserve our Culinary Heritage, especially for future generations 🎉😊

@noxbobby7192 7 месяцев назад

in sg, many tradtional or old school stuff are disappearing as well

@_WorldPeace 7 месяцев назад

. Thank you for sharing your knowledge

@algernon5776 7 месяцев назад

What a great vlog/peice of the history/future of dim sum in Hong Kong. If we lose our history, we lose a big peice of our future.

@beowulf1312 7 месяцев назад

Very interesting show. Indeed, yum cha is dying out, not just some special dishes.

@laiychan 7 месяцев назад

I remember the umbrella!!! I used to order jelly just because of it! Wow, time flies!

@kagekun1198 7 месяцев назад

This is an important cause. Dim Sum is also dying out in Malaysia and it'll be not long before it'll cost so much only the rich can eat this delicious food.

@totot99 6 месяцев назад

as a malaysia dim sum is expensive

@chorlauheung4920 7 месяцев назад

Baked sago pudding looks like creme brulee or Portuguese egg tarts.

@edwinlowe2692 Месяц назад

Wonderful video

@BunnieBunBun 7 месяцев назад

where is this restaurant in Hong Kong?

@t.h.1784 7 месяцев назад

I will be visiting HK soon, would like try out the restaurants Name and Addresses of the two restaurants please ?

@teaspoonful973 7 месяцев назад

Also looking for this!

@hkpfalldie 7 месяцев назад

The first one is Fung Shing Restaurant, 62-68 Java Road, North Point, Hong Kong Island

@SecretCollage 7 месяцев назад

Love this reporting!

@kenl6774 7 месяцев назад

I thought 鳳城酒家 had closed permanently? Only one of the locations closed?

@f.p.5235 7 месяцев назад

No worry, it is in Canada.

@rackoflam 7 месяцев назад

oh I never had tapioca pudding for dim sum. Looks delicious. Don't go away 🙁

@gracehlung 7 месяцев назад

baked sago pudding!!! love it so much

@lmc2664 7 месяцев назад

💯! I had totally forgot this delicious dessert until I watched this video.

@plusfuture 7 месяцев назад

Give the names of the restaurants…

@rocko6439 7 месяцев назад

There will always be customers who want the basic dim sum menu selections and there will be restaurants who will cater to these customers.

@youtubehub8190 7 месяцев назад

7:29 there's hair on the right side in the filling

@thedrunkmarxist 17 дней назад

No wonder they a school and not a restaurant💀

@gp2779 7 месяцев назад

Meanwhile Dimsum is thriving here in Malaysia. Dai Baos are so common you can get them in food trucks. We also adapted halal dim sum for the majority of Malaysia’s Muslim population.

@yungtrashlord 4 месяца назад

that is true, a lot of these dim sum still existed here in malaysia however, some dim sum like the pork liver siu mai and sago pudding are essentially unheard of

@Iheartseattle1 7 месяцев назад

Does anybody know what the dessert on the plate next to the black sesame rolls are?

@13thirteen87 3 месяца назад

砵仔糕 / Red Bean Pudding & 椰汁馬豆糕 / Split Peas Coconut Pudding。

@dashoverton1963 7 месяцев назад

It’s still common elsewhere. 🤦🏻‍♂️

@heizecherie6518 7 месяцев назад

yup but in 2-5 yrs you'll see it disappearing one by one.

@gp2779 7 месяцев назад

@@heizecherie6518it’s thriving here in Malaysia lol

@qvaerensveritatem9064 7 месяцев назад

so heartwarming.

@yeohliangim2939 Месяц назад

So nice dim sum so tempting real sifu😢😊😊

@Kagrenackle 7 месяцев назад

I love sago custard pudding so I hope it doesn't go extinct.

@Trund27 7 месяцев назад

It looks delicious. Would love to try it.

@RUHappyATM 3 месяца назад

Wait. The reporter speaking in English, the chef replying in Cantonese. That's the duck talking to the chicken! LOL.

@Tummymunster 7 месяцев назад

Why is she speaking canto to one guy but english to another when the other person is speaking canto?

@WarrenKLiu 7 месяцев назад

Probably because the chef understood English so easier for audiences to listen than read subtitles. There are many who don’t speak English in HK and unfortunately many western expat give wrong impression of HK English proliferation because the only HK they know are Central, Wan Chai, Happy Valley, Mid Levels and Repulse Bay and they think that’s HK.

@thedude6810 7 месяцев назад

that jelly dish is from my childhood

@boxscorewatcher413 7 месяцев назад

Dim Sum is life

@Spirit451 7 месяцев назад

Dim sum from elsewhere just looks nothing like the one in Hong Kong.

@EzekielDeLaCroix 7 месяцев назад

Oh no. I have to pay a 100USD to eat dim sum now since it's going through the phase of becoming expensive after being a poor person's food.

@DanBurgaud 5 месяцев назад

One thing I notice about the locals: they order a single dimsum dish then read newspapers until lunch time. That was one way to ruin the business.

@Zagaara 7 месяцев назад

I never saw rainbow jelly anymore....in SEA here, still had them till the late 80s and never saw them anymore..

@skimidot92 7 месяцев назад

Indonesian here. Idk if it is the same, but here you can find "rainbow jelly" with the same appearance with the one in the video.

@cynthiachengmintz672 7 месяцев назад

Not sure if this was a Toronto thing, but anyone remember char siu chaan bao?

@franciscajourney 7 месяцев назад

I love dimsum 😋

@jasonng9415 7 месяцев назад

Who else spotted the long hair in the dumpling filling at 7:30 🤣

@skimidot92 7 месяцев назад

Where exactly? I looked again and again and there isn´t.

@minxili3317 7 месяцев назад

@randomcow505 7 месяцев назад

my man, look at the comments, thats exactly what they have done

@phifrom5 7 месяцев назад

it's working, im a foreigner who's going to check out man yuen next time I end up in HK

@babyomegaplusultra6978 7 месяцев назад

I love Dimsum 🥟🥠🥡🥮🍥

@SolomonNwokenkwo 3 месяца назад

Would want to visit Korea

@hizokaairos 7 месяцев назад

here in cebu dimsum is our go to meal😁

@TheSmokey1523 7 месяцев назад

Malay cake and black sesame rolls ❤

@nulnoh219 7 месяцев назад

Still alive in Shen Zhen tho. They all went north.

@lean_sumek 7 месяцев назад

بهترين أرزوها⁦🙏🏾⁩⁦🙏🏿⁩⁦🙏🏼⁩⁦🤲🏻⁩🤲⁦🤲🏿⁩

@camlee2341 7 месяцев назад

pay them 50k to 100k a year..you will never be short of dim sum chefs

@justinderrick8785 7 месяцев назад

subsidize by the government not the customers ;)

@nigellei8591 7 месяцев назад

Dim Sum head chefs do make 100k USD a year, at lease here in seattle usa.

@Spacemonkeymojo 7 месяцев назад

So weird the host talks to the old guy in Canto then the younger guy in English...

@hkpfalldie 7 месяцев назад

Yea, so cringe

@crystalc8992 6 месяцев назад

They don’t wanna teach the youngsters and then worried about losing the tradition 😂

@user-ni4qq5cx8w 7 месяцев назад

Everyone wants to be the village chief

@mikamariya1733 7 месяцев назад

Sago is from Papua, Indonesia. We call them Sagu.

@nuomitang30 7 месяцев назад

Because they are dim sum, they dimsumper.

@RUHappyATM 3 месяца назад

I like Dim Sum, and I'm not even Cantonese.

@faimak848 7 месяцев назад

high cost, but low profit made from some kind of dim sum.

@heizecherie6518 7 месяцев назад

This is a big real problem. the problem is that learning dimsum is not accesable and very limited info over the net,. I myself is very lucky to be able to learn dimsum with a professional chef with almost 50 yrs of expérience. The more i deep dive learning dimsum the harder and complicated it gets. The problem here is that it is not a high paying job and so much work. They should let the younger apprentice learn asap. ain't nobody got time for 3 yrs just doing basic work.

@___beyondhorizon4664 3 месяца назад

I look a teaching job in Guangzhou during 2009-2013 party because of dim sum 😅 The chef at 5.3 is so skinny, you can see his collar bones through his Vneck shirt 😢 why so skinny when hes working at a restaurant 😢

@melodyparra2960 7 месяцев назад

Looks delicious

@lean_sumek 7 месяцев назад

yεma wo akwaaba😚☺️🤗🤗🤗

@tidusfantasy 7 месяцев назад

I dont see why she has to speak english when the interviewee is speaking cantonese. The 2 ways cantonese interview during the first segment is perfectly fine, why changed it for the 2nd interview? It's so inconsistent, and kinda annoying also. One moment i was reading subtitles, one moment i was listening. It's not like its a one off thing, but a full conversation... SCMP, pls just stick to one language during an interview

@nigellei8591 7 месяцев назад

the interview wasn't done on the same day, and the interviewers were encourage to speak as much English as possible because this channel's target audience is toward the English speakers.

@jasonreviews 7 месяцев назад

my yeye made dim sum. My dad made dim sum. guess what happened to me. I chose different career.

@shaduck06 7 месяцев назад

is this an ad

@wip1664 7 месяцев назад

Dim sum was perfected in the '80's. What happened?

@lean_sumek 7 месяцев назад

لَذيذ😊🥰🤣

@OrganizedSpreadSheets 3 месяца назад

Kissinger 8:07

@Sweetfeiyun 7 месяцев назад

No offense meant. But most should first know how to respect customers. Most restaurants in HK have rude servers. So others especially foreigners are hesitant to eat.

@BENCHPRESS_247 7 месяцев назад

Mi luv yu long tum pudding

@iandroo888 7 месяцев назад

Oof anyone see that hair at 7:30

@Hkchinese888 7 месяцев назад

Pork Chop talks about Dim Sum

@zacksmith5963 7 месяцев назад

I don't think anyone asked you cow 💩

@comchadelalora 7 месяцев назад

Dim sum in danger. USA just sent its best boys onboard its bets war ships (and not rusted) near hong kong shores. Strategically to protect dim sum.

@JJ82IOE 5 месяцев назад

60yrs experience?? Or one year repeated 60 times 😂

@Ddaedalus 7 месяцев назад

Host barely took a bite out of the liver. The look of disgust on her face was very disrespectful to the owner. Maybe find a host who’s not from Australia & not a picky eater next time…

@hkpfalldie 7 месяцев назад

And get a host knows how to hold chopsticks

@mikeymadnez 7 месяцев назад

Dim Sum and den sum

@legambaz 6 месяцев назад

You need to work on your pronunciation of the Tim Sum in proper Cantonese

@aldenteh9412 7 месяцев назад

Don't worry, Dim Sum is still preserved and local favourite in Malaysia. 🇲🇾

@axeltech9914 6 месяцев назад

很快就沒有了😂

@msshopaholic21 5 месяцев назад

Mostly is frozen and they don’t do it well

@johnjosephmoore7248 7 месяцев назад

0:08

@user-pk1bi1ol9u 5 месяцев назад

Protest Dim sum legacy!

@erwinlimawan3158 7 месяцев назад

Can someone who understands the native language explain griffin skin? I'm pretty sure that's not what they're actually referencing with the stripes on the cake.

@RovingKegs 7 месяцев назад

Your guess was correct! The chef is referring to the striped pattern on the skin of the cake. It has been translated to 'griffin skin' here for simplicity, but the chef actually calls it 'Qilin' skin

@erwinlimawan3158 7 месяцев назад

@@RovingKegs That's what I figured! Then they'd have to spend more time explaining what a Qilin is.

@hkpfalldie 7 месяцев назад

The boss said 麒麟面，麒麟is a mythical animal having snake skin / fish scale like skin, 面 means surface