Gai Daan Tsai

12 Sep 2010 - People come from all over the world to enjoy Hong Kong's food delights. Although everything from Lebanese to Dutch is available, the Cantonese kitchen is of course a major attraction. Sadly, Hong Kong's street food stalls are slowly but steadily disappearing. One of the city's street food treat is the gai daan tsai, a golden cake of miniature eggs-shaped balls attached to each other like a piece of oversized bubble wrap. The origins of the gai daan tsai are not clear. Some say the post-war generation created the cake to make up for their eggless diet, but others say street hawkers bought damaged eggs on the cheap to work them into a batter, resulting in the golden color. These Hong Kong waffles look easy to make, but attempts in the home kitchen often turn out to be a disappointment. So better support the street stalls and buy from the experts.