Before its urban development, Hong Kong consisted largely of coastal settlements and fishing communities, including the Tanka. Recognised as one of the city\u2019s four indigenous groups, the Tanka \u2014 meaning \u201cpeople of the water\u201d in Cantonese \u2014 traditionally lived and worked at sea, residing on wooden boats and sustaining themselves through fishing. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
In Shau Kei Wan on Hong Kong Island\u2019s eastern side, elements of Tanka heritage can still be found. Here, we spend time on the water learning about traditional fishing practices, before bringing our catch to Kam Tung Kitchen, a longstanding neighbourhood restaurant recognised by Foodie Forks 2026 for Cantonese cuisine, to prepare and enjoy the meal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Before its urban development, Hong Kong consisted largely of coastal settlements and fishing communities, including the Tanka. Recognised as one of the city\u2019s four indigenous groups, the Tanka \u2014 meaning \u201cpeople of the water\u201d in Cantonese \u2014 traditionally lived and worked at sea, residing on wooden boats and sustaining themselves through fishing. In Shau Kei<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":105582,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wprm-recipe-roundup-name":"","wprm-recipe-roundup-description":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"ppma_author":[81],"class_list":["post-105580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-videos"],"authors":[{"term_id":81,"user_id":25,"is_guest":0,"slug":"foodie","display_name":"Foodie","avatar_url":{"url":"https:\/\/www.afoodieworld.com\/sg\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2023\/10\/Untitled-design-1.png","url2x":"https:\/\/www.afoodieworld.com\/sg\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2023\/10\/Untitled-design-1.png"},"user_url":"https:\/\/www.www.afoodieworld.com\/sg","last_name":"","first_name":"","description":"Foodie is here for all Hong Kong food related news and events."}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.afoodieworld.com\/sg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.afoodieworld.com\/sg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.afoodieworld.com\/sg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.afoodieworld.com\/sg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.afoodieworld.com\/sg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.afoodieworld.com\/sg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105580\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.afoodieworld.com\/sg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.afoodieworld.com\/sg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.afoodieworld.com\/sg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105580"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.afoodieworld.com\/sg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=105580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}