I've compiled a small list of some favorites over the past year that allow me to walk in most places confidently:
Hoisin sauce 海鮮醬
Oyster sauce è ”æ²¹
Plum sauce 蘇梅醬
Sweet and sour sauce 糖醋醬
Black bean paste 蒜蓉豆豉
Shrimp paste é¹¹è¦é†¬
Red vinegar 浙醋
Master stock æ»·æ°´
Char siu sauce å‰ç‡’醬
Chu hau paste 柱侯醬
Chinese steamed eggs 蒸水蛋
Congee with lean pork and century egg 皮蛋瘦肉粥
Cantonese fried rice 炒飯
Sweet and sour pork 咕噜肉
Stewed beef brisket 柱侯牛腩
Steamed spare ribs with fermented black beans and chili pepper 豉椒排骨
Steamed frog legs on lotus leaf
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Steamed ground pork with salted duck egg 鹹蛋蒸肉餅
Blanched vegetables with oyster sauce æ²¹èœ
Stir-fried hairy gourd with dried shrimp and cellophane noodles
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Stir-fried water convolvulus with shredded chili and fermented doufu 椒絲è…乳通èœ
Zaa Leung 炸兩
Yau Zaa Gwai 油炸鬼
Dace fish balls 鯪éšçƒ
Deep-fried marinated pigeon 燒乳鴿
Steamed fish è’¸éš
Steamed scallops with ginger and garlic 蒜茸蒸扇è²
White boiled shrimp 白ç¼è¦
Lobster with ginger and scallions 薑蔥é¾è¦
Mantis shrimp 攋尿è¦
Wonton noodle 雲åžéºµ
Beef chow fun 乾炒牛河
Chow mein 炒麵
Jook-sing noodles 竹昇麵
Lo mein 撈麵
Noodle soup with beef brisket
牛腩麵
Rice noodle roll 豬腸粉
Rice noodles 河粉
Silver needle noodles 銀é‡ç²‰
Yi mein 伊麵
Char siu å‰ç‡’
Roast duck 燒鴨
Roast goose 燒éµ
Roasted pig 燒肉
Beef entrails 牛雜
Beef stew 牛腩
Chicken scraps 雞雜
Duck gizzard 鴨腎
Pig tongue 豬脷
White cut chicken 白切雞
Orange cuttlefish 鹵水墨éš
Poached duck in master stock
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Soy sauce chicken 豉油雞
White rice with Chinese sausage and char siu 臘腸å‰ç‡’飯
White rice with goose entrails and roasted goose 燒éµéµè…¸é£¯
Siu mei platter 燒味拼盤
Siu lap platter 燒臘拼盤
Layered egg and beef over rice
窩蛋牛肉飯
Minced beef patty over rice
肉餅煲仔飯
Pork spare ribs over rice
排骨煲仔飯
Steamed chicken over rice
蒸雞肉煲仔飯
Meat and Preserved Chinese sausage over rice è Ÿå‘³ç…²ä»”é£¯
Crispy fried chicken 炸å雞
Seafood birdsnest 海鲜雀巢
Roasted suckling pig 燒乳猪
Fried tofu with shrimp
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Roast young pigeon 乳鴿
Salt and pepper rib 椒鹽骨
Salt and pepper squid 椒鹽é·éš
Salt and pepper shrimp 椒鹽è¦
Sour spare ribs 生炒排骨
Taro duck 陳皮芋é é´¨
Yeung Chow fried rice æšå·žç‚’飯
Red bean soup 紅豆沙
Black sesame soup èŠéº»ç³Š
Sai mai lo 西米露
Sweet potato soup 番薯糖水
Mung bean soup ç¶ è±†æ²™
Dau fu fa 豆è…花
Guilinggao 龜苓è†
Sweet Chinese pastry 糕點
Coconut bar 椰æ±ç³•
Shaved Ice 刨冰
Steamed egg custard 燉蛋
Steamed milk custard 燉奶
Double skin milk 雙皮奶
Braised abalone 燜鮑éš
Jellyfish 海蜇
Shark fin soup éšç¿…湯
Sea cucumber æµ·åƒ
Swallow's nest soup 燕窩
I hope this helps you.