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Cha Chaan Teng
2024
Culinary Travel
Food

Challenges

Season 1, Episode 7

: In a metropolitan city like Hong Kong, Cha Chaan Teng faces a lot of challenges. Apart from the city’s skyrocketing rental and fierce peer competition, the pandemic puts extra burden onto the shoulders of Cha Chaan Teng owners.

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Cha Chaan Teng
2024
Culinary Travel
Food

Challenges

Season 1, Episode 7

: In a metropolitan city like Hong Kong, Cha Chaan Teng faces a lot of challenges. Apart from the city’s skyrocketing rental and fierce peer competition, the pandemic puts extra burden onto the shoulders of Cha Chaan Teng owners.

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Cha Chaan Teng

This 8-episode series explores various aspects of the cha chaan teng culture: its history, fusion dishes, efficiency and aesthetics. It interviews a 60-year-old cafe and a multigenerational cafe to see how they have overcome challenges to survive.

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Episodes

Season 1

Behind the Taste of Hong Kong

1. Behind the Taste of Hong Kong

We travel to the 55-year-old Cheung Heung Tea restaurant, tracing the origins and transformation behind this unique piece of local dining culture.

Best of Both Worlds

2. Best of Both Worlds

Hong Kong is known for its East-meets-West heritage, and Cha Chaan Teng is the essence of the unique history.

Efficacy and Newspeak

3. Efficacy and Newspeak

Hong Kong is a dynamic city filled with constant motion, busy streets, big crowds and jam-packed traffic, and it just never seems to stop!

The Cha Chaan Teng Aesthetic

4. The Cha Chaan Teng Aesthetic

Cha Chaan Teng forms its own set of aesthetics which inspired numerous Hong Kong filmmakers like Wong Kar-wei, Johnnie To and John Woo.

Ads @ Cha Chaan Teng

5. Ads @ Cha Chaan Teng

In this episode, we will get a sneak peek into how advertisements became a part of the Cha Chaan Teng we know today.

Passing On

6. Passing On

In this episode, we will dive into the transformation of Cha Chaan Teng in the past seven decades.

Challenges

7. Challenges

Apart from the city’s skyrocketing rental and fierce peer competition, the pandemic puts extra burden onto the shoulders of Cha Chaan Teng owners.

The Next Chapter

8. The Next Chapter

Mixing the East and the West, Hong Kong earned the moniker of being a “Gourmet Paradise," where a wide array of cuisine is available within reach.

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