港式

gǎngshì

adjective

Meanings

HSK 2

我们去喝港式奶茶吧。

Wǒmen qù hē gǎngshì nǎichá ba.

Let's go have Hong Kong-style milk tea.

HSK 5

这部电影充满了港式幽默。

Zhè bù diànyǐng chōngmǎn le gǎngshì yōumò.

The film is full of Hong Kong-style humor.

culture

港式 takes 港 from 香港. Hong Kong food is its own genre on the mainland: a 港式茶餐厅 serves strong milk tea and 菠萝包 "pineapple buns", and 港式点心 means dim sum.

usage

It also describes names translated by their Cantonese sound rather than their Mandarin one, such as 史提芬 for Stephen, where the mainland writes 斯蒂芬.

港 gǎng

式 shì