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Café de Coral seeks intangible cultural heritage status for baked pork chop rice
The fast-food chain has applied for the Hong Kong-style dish to be considered for inclusion on the city’s intangible cultural heritage list
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Hong Kong fast-food chain Café de Coral has submitted an application for baked pork chop rice – its signature dish – to be included on the city’s intangible cultural heritage list.
In May, the restaurant group, which has more than 160 outlets in the city, rolled out limited-edition discount coupons to get the dish for HK$20 (US$2.60) – less than half what it usually costs – to mark its application.
Café de Coral announced its application on May 30, just ahead of Hong Kong Leisure and Cultural Services Department’s first Intangible Cultural Heritage Month, which runs throughout June.
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Baked pork chop rice is typically made by baking a mixture of cheese, tomato sauce, pork chop and vegetables atop a bed of fried rice.
It is a quintessential dish of Hong Kong’s “soy sauce Western” – a hybrid cuisine fusing Cantonese and European ingredients that emerged in the city in the mid-20th century, during British colonial rule.
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