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Siu yeh

A snack shop in Causeway Bay, Hong Kong selling snacks for siu yeh

Traditional Chinese

宵夜

Simplified Chinese

宵夜

Literal meaning

宵 - overnight
夜 - night

Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin	xiāo yè
Yue: Cantonese
Yale Romanization	sīu yé
Jyutping	siu1 je2

Siu yeh (Chinese: 宵夜 / 消夜; pinyin: Xiāoyè) is a late night meal in the food culture of Hong Kong. It comes after dinner, and is similar to supper. Mealtime may start from about 9pm onwards until 4am, which would be early morning yum cha time. It can range anywhere from a snack to a full-fledged meal. For people working late night shifts, siu yeh is also associated with their post-midnight meals. Siu yeh is also common in some parts of southern mainland China, and is known there as yexiao (夜宵; pinyin: yèxiāo) in Mandarin Chinese.

Hong Kong cuisine

Food	Almond biscuit Almond jelly Bakkwa Banana roll Bao yu Beef ball Beef bun Beef chow fun Bird's nest soup Biscuit roll Buddha's delight Cart noodle Cha siu bao Char siu Chinese herb tea Chinese sausage Cocktail bun Coconut bar Congee Cream bun Crispy fried chicken Deuk Deuk Tong Dim sum Douhua Dried shredded squid Egg tart Egg waffle Fish ball Fish slice Flame on the iceberg Got fan Ham and egg bun Haw flakes Hong Kong-style milk tea Hot pot Jerky Jin deui Kai-lan Lai fun Mango pomelo sago Mango pudding Nuomici Ox-tongue pastry Paper wrapped cake Peanut butter bun Pineapple bun Poon choi Put chai ko Rapeseed Red bean ice Rice noodle roll Rice roll Roast goose Roasted pig Rousong Saang mein Sausage bun Sea cucumber Seafood birdsnest Shahe fen Singapore style noodles Siu mei Steamed meatball Steamed rice roll Shrimp roe noodles Stinky tofu Sweetheart cake Swiss Wing Taro cake Taro dumpling Tea egg Tofu skin roll Water caltrop Water chestnut cake White boiled shrimp White cut chicken White sugar sponge cake Wonton Wonton noodle XO sauce Yeung Chow fried rice Yi mein Yin Yang Fried Rice Yuanyang Zha cai Zhaliang

Films	The Banquet (1991) Shogun and Little Kitchen (1992) The Chinese Feast (1995) The God of Cookery (1996) Kung Fu Chefs (2009)

TV series	Magic Chef (2005)

Culture	Hong Kong tea culture Siu yeh One bowl with two pieces Speakeasy Yum cha

Places	Cha chaan teng Dai pai dong

Beijing cuisine Cantonese cuisine Shanghai cuisine Macanese cuisine Chinese cuisine History of Chinese cuisine

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Siu yeh

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