Features
- One can order tailor-made dishes.
- It is customary to have to share tables with complete strangers when there is a shortage of seating.
- Unlike cha chaan teng, most dai pai dong do not provide set meals.
- "Cross-stall ordering" is possible: for instance, when one is sitting and eating in a stall selling noodles, he or she can order a cup of milk tea from another stall, which may be several stalls away.
- The stalls can be roughly divided into those operating in daytime and those doing business at night. The dai pai dong which operate at night usually sell seafood and other more costly dishes: one dish usually costs from HKD$ 40-70. The day-time dai pai dong, on the contrary, provide cheap food including:
- Congee and youtiao (aka yau cha kwai);
- Milk tea, toasts, sandwiches and instant noodles with ham, egg, luncheon meat or sausage;
- rice or noodles with siu mei (燒味 roasted meats);
- fried rice and dip tau fan (碟頭飯 rice plates);
- Chiuchow-style noodles (潮州粉麵).
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