總覺得，要真正了解一個地方，最直接的方法，莫過於從飲食文化開始。香港是中西文化交滙的地方，我們的飲食文化都夾雜著這個主要元素。
西方有句名言：「生活中的幸福，從一頓平靜的早餐開始。」我們的早餐都是中西合壁的。就以我今天的早餐為例。中式少麵＋西式午餐肉，表面上，風馬牛不相及。配搭起來，卻是出奇的味美。然後，港式奶茶，是香港代表性飲品之一。
自1940年起開始出現的港式奶茶（俗稱「絲襪奶茶」）是從英式奶茶演變而成的。可說是見證了香港百年的歷史。港式奶茶的製作技藝，充分表現香港的中西飲食文化的交會與發展。其獨特的製作手藝，更被納入「香港非物質文化遺產」。
這就是我的早餐了，你呢？
Food culture helps understanding a place. Hong Kong is a place with mixture of distinctive Western/Eastern culture, which also greatly influenced our food culture.
William Somerset Maugham said it well, "All happiness begins with a blissful breakfast." Our breakfast is a combination of Chinese and Western styles. Like my breakfast today: Chinese-style noodles + Western-style luncheon meat. They appeared to be irrelevant. Indeed, it is surprisingly match and delicious.
The Hong Kong-style milk tea (commonly known as "silk stocking milk tea"), which has appeared since 1940, is the outcome of a century-old evolution from English milk tea of the colonial era to the present popular beverage of Hong Kong. The tea-making technique is even listed on the representative list of the Intangible Culture Heritage of Hong Kong.
This is my breakfast, and you?