Y6 Humanities- Where does my food come from?

Part 2 How has our food changed?Hong Kong has naturally inherited a great deal from the centuries-old traditions of Chinese cuisine, but it has also long been exposed to overseas influences, and it is this fusion of Chinese, Asian and Western cooking, the combination of styles, recipes and customs, that is now the chief characteristic of the territory's food culture.

In this section, you will be using the humanities detective techniques you have learned in the last unit to investigate the changes that have taken place in eating establishments in Hong Kong.

Q1 Traditional Hong Kong FoodWhich of the food below that you have tried before? Which one you haven’t? If you asked your parents the same question, what would they say? Would they say the same? Why yes? Why not?

Coconut Tart Icing Biscuits White Sugar Sponge Water chestnut

Chinese Master Stock Pork

Put chai pudding Shumai with pork tripe Haw flakes

Q2 Where are they from?

Can you match the food listed below to their place of origin in the table?

1. French Toast

2. Swiss Wing

3. Ovaltine

Food Origin Additional Information

Roman Empire

Various versions of the delicious food under a variety of names—"suppe dorate", "soupys yn dorye", etc.—were prepared throughout Europe in the Middle Ages.

Hong Kong

Some claim that the dish was invented by a local restaurant, the Tai Ping Koon (太平館). It is a common practice in Hong Kong restaurants to name a new dish after a place, which may or may not have any connection with the dish itself at all.

Switzerland

When the Swiss national football team travelled to the World Cup, it naturally travelled with them - and so stars around the world got a taste for it - like the legendary Brazilian footballer Pele.

Q3 It is breakfast time!

Complete the table below on your own and compare your answers with your groupmates afterwards.

Breakfast Origin Local/Foreign Traditional/Modern

Q4 Are we truly living in the food paradise? How diverse is our food culture?

Below is the list of the cuisine we can choose in Hong Kong.

Reference: http://www.openrice.com/restaurant/advancesearch.htm

Use the following questions to conduct an interview with 5 people in class:

1. Which cuisine have you heard before in Hong Kong? (put a“√” in the box)

2. Which cuisine have your tried before in Hong Kong? (put a “X” in the box)

Base on the interview results, discuss the following questions with your groupmates:

1. Which is the most popular cuisine? What are the possible reasons?2. What are the advantages and disadvantages when we can enjoy a greater range of food

than the past?