{"id":99023,"date":"2026-11-12T15:09:03","date_gmt":"2026-11-12T07:09:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=99023"},"modified":"2026-11-12T15:09:03","modified_gmt":"2026-11-12T07:09:03","slug":"on-the-menu-inauthentically-hong-kong-the-disneyfication-of-cha-chaan-teng-and-bing-sutt-must-stop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=99023","title":{"rendered":"On the Menu | Inauthentically Hong Kong: the Disneyfication of cha chaan teng and bing sutt must stop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.i-scmp.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/1280x720\/public\/d8\/images\/canvas\/2026\/11\/12\/734c3912-2b74-465e-80b0-00f351521ee2_50358093.jpg?itok=dQyqcCzD&amp;v=1794457486\" \/><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">If you have walked down SoHo in Central lately, your eyes might have been attacked by the flashy crimson facade of a new cha chaan teng (Hong Kong-style diner) on Staunton Street.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The latest tenant, Double the Joy, advertises itself as a cha chaan teng by day and a dai pai dong \u2013 street food stall \u2013 at night (though in English it uses the word \u201cbistro\u201d). It leans fully into the Hong Kong aesthetic, but in a way that is utterly confused and disjointed \u2013 like an AI bot\u2019s hallucination of what a Hong Kong restaurant should be.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<center><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/lifestyle\/food-drink\/article\/3374145\/inauthentically-hong-kong-disneyfication-cha-chaan-teng-and-bing-sutt-must-stop\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><br \/>\n<center\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you have walked down SoHo in Central lately, your eyes might have been attacked by the flashy crimson facade of a new cha chaan&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":99024,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[11587,551,5727,32608,3569,32607,5231,739,1182,32609,5728],"class_list":["post-99023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bored-interesting","tag-bing","tag-cha","tag-chaan","tag-disneyfication","tag-hong","tag-inauthentically","tag-kong","tag-menu","tag-stop","tag-sutt","tag-teng","wpcat-33-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99023","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=99023"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99023\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/99024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=99023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=99023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=99023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}